Awareness
This post was inspired by Ernst Cassirer’s An Essay on Man. (It was published in 1944 hence the use of ‘man’ for humanity.) A paragraph on Cassirer. If you have heard of Ernst Cassirer it will almost certainly be because of his four volume Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. This is serious academic philosophy – definitely [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called A Real Pleasure. It is about how we aren’t quite only pleasure seekers (or at least seekers of immediate obvious pleasure) and how ‘reality’ isn’t quite so simple either (we are part of the picture – reality isn’t just [...]
I have a guest post on the Philosophy, Psychology and Real Life blog. It is called Boredom’s Gift. I must confess that I found writing on the topic of boredom (hopefully not in a boring way) appealed to my rather strange sense of humour. It is about boredom not being tired or excited but a [...]
Albert the Urban Monk has a great post on Welcoming and Releasing Emotions. It is a very good summary of Western (especially the Sedona Method) and Buddhist approaches to dealing with our painful emotions. If you want an excellent summary of how to deal with emotions that you find powerful and overwhelming this is enough [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog called Five Ways to a More Satisfying Life. It is about how we all live live in particular situations. That we can influence these situations and that these situations also influence us. Knowing this can help us be more realistic, lighten up [...]
This is the second part of Albert the Urban Monk’s post on acceptance and awareness. This is one of the best blog posts I have ever read, bar none. It deals with our need to be seen for who we are, our internalised critic, and the constraints we put on feeling. It’s practical and useful [...]
Continue reading about Unconditional Acceptance for our Totality Pt.2
[My apologies. I am having internet problems at the moment and am reduced to dial-up. So no photos until I am back to a better connection speed. Evan] I usually have difficulty when people get defensive. I feel surprised and not sure what to say. I know that I’ve offended or hurt them in some [...]
Image by Guylaine2007 These three qualities come from Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA). (Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapy invented by Eric Berne and his friends – people such as Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward, Stephen Karpman, Claude Steiner and many others – on the West Coast of America in the 1950′s and 1960′s. The best [...]
Continue reading about A Psychological Health Checklist: awareness, spontaneity and intimacy
