Body, movement and dance in psychotherapy
This international, peer reviewed journal has reached its 10th anniversary this year. To celebrate this achievement, Routledge are offering free access to ten articles which have been handpicked by the Editors until the end of the 2016. So pick up …….
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Kids challenge Trump
Trump is elected president in the US. You can argue a lot about this. But sometimes its just helpful and convincing to see how children reacted to this election. In Germany we say that children tell the truth. If interested just have a look and listen to your children when you are not sure about what has happened or when you want to get innocent and true feedback.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/11/17/do-not-say-mean-things-kids-are-writing-to-donald-trump-asking-him-to-be-a-kind-president/
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On the bridge of death and life
Every day, Chen Si rides his scooter around on a bridge over the Yangtze River trying to stop potential suicides. During the past 10 years, he has saved more than 200 desperate people, many of whom come from rural areas. Some of them talk with rare candor about the problems they thought they could no longer face. It’s striking that ….
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Education and passion
How about learning in the future? There will be new models of learning by which the next generation of children will learn to participate in the world. More and more experts say that passion-projects are the best way to learn.
— http://singularityhub.com/2016/09/15/kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn/
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Where science and soul coexist
The Chopra Foundation is dedicated to conducting scientific research that examines the effects of mind-body practices on health and wellbeing. These practices include meditation, yoga, breathing techniques, diet, massage and use of adaptogenic herbal supplements, plant fiber and ingestible oils. While there are studies in the scientific literature on the beneficial effects of a variety of individual mind-body practices for wellbeing, few studies have taken a more systems biology approach that are simultaneously inclusive of numerous practices and examine genetic, biochemical, physiological and psychosocial measurements.
www.choprafoundation.org
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Healthy feedback loop linked to positive emotions
Researchers suggests that positive emotions, robust social connections, and physical health influence one another in a self-sustaining upward spiral dynamic and feedback loop that scientists are just beginning to understand.
A higher vagal tone index is linked to physical and psychological well-being. Conversely, a low vagal tone index is associated with inflammation, depression, negative moods, loneliness, heart attacks, and stroke.
Healthy vagal tone is part of a feedback loop linked to positive emotions…if you want to get to know more about it, have a look:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201607/vagus-nerve-stimulation-dramatically-reduces-inflammation
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Freud as a comic is online
Once Freud referred to the issue of ending a psychotherapy by saying: a patient is cured when he can laugh about his neurosis.Freud as I was told never really wrote about the criteria of ending a psychotherapy in a professional way.
More than 60n years ago there were three comics published on Freud, though they call him simply “the psychiatrist”. When reading These Comics you can find out by yourself if you are already cured and laugh about your neurosis. Enjoy. 🙂
The comic featured three patients, Freddy Carter, Ellen Lyman and Mark Stone, who were undergoing psychoanalysis. The analyst was the central character. He was never named, simply listed as The Psychiatrist
http://freudquotes.blogspot.de/2014/04/psychoanalysis-comic-books.html
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Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it
Another world-famous painter and artist Salvador Dali is also wellknown for his funny beard. He was a master of fantasy and realizations of dreams. He in a paradox citation was convinced: “Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it”.
It’s calming to know what he said and it’s true: You can never reach perfection and the more to try to the more you loose your own creativity, your own emotional life and its surprising expression.
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Emotionally strong people
Sometimes people want to be emotionally strong, sometime they have to be. But what does this mean to be emotionally strong and how can you judge a person`s internal state of feeling by what you see on the outside. Often people think emotionally strong people are quiet, never complain or don’t show too much emotional Expression. In contrast to this any signs of emotional ‘leakage’ (i.e., expressing emotional distress in any way) or tears (especially in men), is often viewed as evidence the person has difficulties coping and is emotionally weak.
This often is not correct and…………..
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Cultural difference in mother-infant-communication
There’s a lot being said about mother-infant-relationship. There’s also a lot to be said about the possible cultural differences or similarities.
Now it’s proofed that there’s a big difference in the embodied intersubjective engagement in mother-infant-tactile communication. ………..
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