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Fast Meditation
Read more: Fast Meditation“Fast meditation”? A study posted at PsychCentral shows near-instant results from just a little mindfulness practice: Psychologists studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness” found that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their critical cognitive skills (and performed significantly higher in cognitive tests than a control group) after only four days…
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Open Therapy Hour in Silver Lake
Read more: Open Therapy Hour in Silver LakeI’ve got a prime time therapy hour available at the Silver Lake office: Tuesdays at 6:30pm. The office is at 4001 1/2 Sunset Blvd., 90027 (Sunset Junction). Write or call to talk and arrange a first appointment.
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Remember Past Coping
Read more: Remember Past CopingCrisis Coping from A to Z has its R: “Remember Past Coping,” now up at PsychologyToday.com. The key to getting through whatever you’re going through now may be revisiting a long-lost coping strategy: “I used to keep a journal.” “I used to jog.” “I used to take baths.” “I used to eat better.” Whatever…
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Human Being v. Human Doing
Read more: Human Being v. Human DoingJim Taylor, PhD asks, Are you raising a human being or a human doing? Having internalized their perceptions of being a human doing from their parents, children come to love themselves only when they are successful and experience nothing less than self-loathing when they fail. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Po Bronson sounded the alarm about…
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Stress Strikes Again
Read more: Stress Strikes AgainA study finds a genetic link between stress, obesity, and diabetes. ‘We showed that the actions of single gene in just one part of the brain can have profound effects on the metabolism of the whole body,’ says Chen. This mechanism, which appears to be a ‘smoking gun’ tying stress levels to metabolic disease, might,…