This research examined the effects of very brief, but frequent, amounts of physical activity on coronary heart disease risk. And, guess what? It’s worth it, even if you think it isn’t. The research was a meta-analysis, an aggregate study of other research studies. The researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health examined 33 studies and found that [...]
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…you just might not like the choices available right now! “Once you go beyond fear, there is freedom of being that no one can ever take away from you: the freedom of choosing your own reactions.” Ingrid Betancourt
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Labels, including diagnostic ones, are only useful to the extent they enable constructive action. Personally, I tend to avoid them. This is partly because of the validity problems with diagnostic systems like the DSM. But mostly because my labelling someone turns therapy into NWS or “Now What?” Syndrome.
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Assumptions are powerful, automatic, invisible and (now that you know that) capable of being brought under voluntary control.
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I couldn’t believe this even when I saw it. Goodtherapy.org initiated a poll of Mental Health practitioners on their mailing list. Here are the results: http://www.goodtherapy.org/201103-poll-results.html# [Note: you have to vote in the poll to see the results, but you don't have to join goodtherapy.org to vote.] When I checked it today (March 26), 61.1% [...]
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Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients on noticing three mental functions: Prediction, Comparison and Evaluation. I’ll say some more on that in another post, but I’ve noticed that when people start to see how much comparing, evaluating and predicting their minds do, there’s often an immediate urge to ‘fix’ this problem. [...]
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Busy? Thought so. Me too. Hence, short sentences. But you’re breathing, right? So can you do whatever you need to right now to give your full attention to the sensations that breathing produces? Just for one breath? (Takes about 20 seconds if you do it right). Done it? Good, then we’re finished here! Unless, you [...]
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