It really is absurd. Similarly, patience can help your clients move beyond their own immediate desires, and instead, carefully consider and wait for a desired outcome. Virtues can also provide meaning by serving a motivational function. They can orient your clients' lives around an intention or purpose. A prime example …
more ...The former label for such behavior was Munchausen's syndrome, named for Baron Munchausen (1720-97), an adventurer known for his fantastic tales of exploits; Unlike malingering, it does not yield a practical financial or other social gain. Rather it complicates an already deeply disturbed life. Gus Echeverra has such a problem …
more ...The conflict arises because they are talking about two distinctive modes of experiencing reality. Patients' behavior superficially replicates what they share with others who harbor the same pathology. However, patients' behavior also expresses the distinctive meanings in their lives that come to shape the experience of illness as most decidedly …
more ...However, for those who do not have people in their life to which they can turn, you can facilitate these experiences in your office by communicating empathy via affirmations, nonverbal mirroring, and appropriate therapist disclosure (without shifting the focus to yourself). Although relationships can be a source of great joy …
more ...Heather: I've been feeling a bit lonelier lately. Therapist: Tell me about that. Heather: Well, I've stopped going to church, and I'm missing my connection with other people. But I'm really loving my garden. Therapist: I'm so glad that you've found gardening. It sounds really fulfilling. Tell me about this …
more ...Meditation is like Kundalani because meditation through Kundalini can help to clean your spirit today. Take time to tap into Kundalani and feel your energies flow! Here are some thoughts about the K of Meditation from Frank Kafka: By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create …
more ...You feel a boost of energy when you set your intention, and then another boost when those intention waves connect with similar-frequency waves. You are likely already familiar with energy waves that have meaning for you. You have probably felt your emotions stir when listening to your favorite music. Music …
more ...Whenever you have a feeling, chemical messengers go to work to give instructions to the cells of your body. If you feel compassion for your co-worker and want to help, your body creates the oxytocin molecules of care and attachment. Those molecules have a specific shape, vibration, and spin that …
more ...These are all ways to notice that you are experiencing resistance. Resistance is natural. It is by compassionately and directly inquiring why it is there that we can begin to work with it, instead of battling it and setting up unhelpful polarities that create more resistance. Working with Resistance There …
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