Tag: awareness
Wake Up and Live Well – Embrace the Mystery and Cultivate your Life
November 11, 2023
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
In this blog, I want to touch on the topics of waking up and living well. Each involves its own kind of practice – and ...
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The Experience of Freedom – Mindfulness and Direct Awareness (Nonduality)
April 13, 2020
Awareness
Let me be clear. This article is about freedom. Freedom from habit. Freedom from fixation. And most especially, freedom from a painfully narrow experience of ...
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What Gets In the Way? Awareness, and Obstacles to Living What You Already Are
April 6, 2020
Awareness
Why do I keep seeing a fight when there isn’t one? Why do I keep getting twisted up worrying about my partner leaving me? Why ...
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Being Grounded Is Being in Contact with Your Experience – Not Resisting It
November 1, 2019
Somatic Psychology
Being fully present depends on your capacity to be grounded directly in your actual experience – in what is happening now. Grounding consists of contact. Contact with the ...
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Just Relax! (Why Telling Yourself to Relax Doesn’t Work)
May 30, 2019
Practices
Many of us would agree that we need to relax more. But we also know that telling ourselves to “just relax” doesn’t work very well. ...
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Feeling Ourselves from the Inside Out – Versus Viewing Ourselves from the Outside In
May 26, 2017
Somatic Psychology
What is the difference between self-awareness and self-consciousness? In short, it is the difference between feeling ourselves from the inside out versus from viewing ourselves ...
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The Role of the Body in Bioenergetic Psychotherapy
April 21, 2017
Somatic Psychology
Body-mind psychotherapy stands in contrast to purely verbal psychotherapies by including your bodily self in the therapy session. This can take many different forms. At ...
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Grounding: Embodied Presence
February 26, 2017
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
Settled. Solid. Full. Here. It’s a feeling – an experience – that sometimes comes our way. It can settle upon us by grace, perhaps in ...
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Ground, Heart, Intent, Openness, Presence
February 9, 2017
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
Modern psychology, organizational research, the new sciences, wisdom traditions, and martial arts have all repeatedly “discovered” five fundamental elements that represent human qualities and behavioral ...
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The Present Moment – Awareness Is a Master Key
September 7, 2016
Transpersonal-Psychospiritual Psychology
Awareness of what is happening in the present – in the now – is a key practice, a key approach in many meditation and body-mind ...
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