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The Intuitive Therapist
If you’ve ever watched a filmed therapy session or heard Susie Orbach’s In Therapy, it might seem like there’s not much going on. The client says something and then the therapist says something. What you can’t sense, unless you’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged awareness, bodymind, cognitive iceberg, counselling, embodied knowing, Focusing, Gendlin, psychotherapy, therapy
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Racists Anonymous: Is Racism an Addiction?
‘Racists Anonymous’ is an interesting and radical idea. Pastor Ron Buford, who started it, was inspired by ‘Alcoholics Anonymous: “I started thinking in the AA way”, racism is “an addiction. It’s a sickness”. I was initially really exited by the … Continue reading
Climbing the magic mountain
I had a dream about a remote land where a traveller told tales of his adventures. At the end of the travellers tales, a young boy asked him a question: “How can I climb Mount Ghebo? It’s a magic mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Psychotherapy
Tagged awareness, cognitive iceberg, dreams, embodied knowing
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Make it real
Right now in a park or garden near you there are real spiders weaving real webs. If you watch this video, you’ll probably have forgotten it by this time tomorrow. If you ever watch a spider weaving a web in … Continue reading
Posted in Ecopsychology
Tagged awareness, connection, meditation, nature, senses, wellbeing
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How to keep your New Year Resolution
Every year people make New Year resolutions but 92% of them will fail (Journal of Clinical Psychology). Maybe it’s time for a different approach. Forget ‘I should’ and embrace ‘I want!’ New Year resolutions are typically something like “I’m going … Continue reading
Christmas presence: the perfect gift
Love it or loath it, Christmas is a stressful time for many people. Money worries, anxiety about ‘getting it right’ and spending extra time with the family can all crank up the pressure. Perhaps part of the solution is to … Continue reading
“The body is always in the now”: Wise insight or foolish illusion?
Several years ago I had what I believed to be a profound insight; the body is always in the now. I wasn’t alone in reaching this conclusion and I later read other people saying the same thing. The mind is … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness
Tagged awareness, body, bodymind, duality, embodiment, meditation
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Getting there or being here?
It was a perfect day to be on Dartmoor: blue sky, warm sun, a gentle breeze to cool the skin and wild expanse all around. I was cycling along the Two Moors Way, determined to get to Piles Copse before … Continue reading
The moment of now
Many years ago I saw a talk by the American photographer Duane Michals. Michals rarely works with a single image, preferring to create short sequences of pictures that question our conventional understanding of reality. Michals created a characteristically intense moment … Continue reading
Why meditate?
Last night BBC Radio 4 explored the question of mindfulness. Is it a panacea or just a fad? Although the presenter was occasionally somewhat tongue in cheek about the whole topic, her cynicism was tempered by the fact that for … Continue reading