Archive for December, 2007
The Eden of Our Mind
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This is a guest post by Jay from IQAdult. A blog about our thinking - how it affects us and what affects it. Each post is packed full of information - highly recommended.
You have your own perfect mental health Eden inside your head. Just like ‘Second Life’ but without the cost […]Bah humbug? Two Reasons For Why Christmas Lasts.
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The gap between the rhetoric and the reality must be at its greatest at Christmastime.
Christmas is about giving - and we are pre-occupied with buying.
Christmas is about enjoying families - and the usual story is stress and conflict.
Christmas is about having a holiday - and yet we are often busier. Driving from […]The Drama in Our Relationships: From Roles to Qualities
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There are moments in our relationships when we feel like we are going round in circles, or that “I’m tired of this game”. And yet we’re not clear how to stop doing this.
One way of seeing clearly what is going on at these moments is Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle. […]Compassion is the Desert
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This post is about compassion. In the spirit of embracing contradiction I write it as part of a contest. The contest is run by three ‘monks’ (Wade of The Middle Way, Kenton of Zen-Inspired Self Development, and Albert of Urban Monk.Net) They are monks in the sense of dedicating themselves to […]Alcohol and Health: Questioning the Orthodoxy
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The orthodox view is that moderate alcohol consumption is of benefit to health. A New Zealand researcher Rod Jackson has questioned this: saying that it may not (when taken overall) be of any benefit. You can read an interview about this with Rod Jackson on Radio National’s (Australia’s public broadcasting service) Health Report.
Rod […]The Drama in Our Relationships: Why Do We Do It?
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One useful way of looking at the unhelpful patterns in our relationships is by applying drama analysis. This was first done in a school of psychotherapy called Transactional Analysis by Stephen Karpman. He used the three standard roles of drama (persecutor, victim and rescuer) to look at the ‘dramas’ in our relationships.
Often when […]The Drama In Our Relationships
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Do you know those arguments where you feel you have been there before? Where you feel that you can predict what is going to be said next? As if the people were following a script?
At times like this we have often slipped into a role. One of the simplest […]
