Most people experience and view pain as an unwanted nuisance, a scourge to be avoided as quickly and as completely as possible, and to be eliminated as soon as possible. This is certainly the prevalent view among the vast majority of conventional therapists, and nearly to the same extent among most complementary/ alternative therapists. The

A setback is a setup for a comeback Willie Jolley I am astounded when I look back on my life and see how many times Ive found a negative experience turn into a positive one. Ive come to wonder in a generic way what messages or lessons I might discover in such types of occurrences.

This editorial musing has been stimulated by two very thought-provoking articles. The first, by Larry Dossey (2011) discusses the confident but ignorant responses of scientists who trashed research showing that university students could make predictions about the future, such as which of two computer windows would be programmed by an automated system to display an

Iain McGilchrists book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, is one of the most important books I have ever read. McGilchrists thesis is that the existence of our world as we know it is threatened by our reliance on left brain hemisphere (LH) thinking to the

It is impossible to know a thing without awareness of how it differs from others things. This is true for all of our experiences. Some of the simplest and clearest contrasts are in our sensory perceptions. For instance, visual light has a spectrum of colors from white, which is the combination of all colors through

Conventional medicine, and to a large extent conventional psychology as well, teach that the mind is a product of the electrochemical activity of the brain. Disturbances of psychological functions including both thoughts and emotions are explained as resulting from malfunctions in the nervous system and/or hormones of the body. Psychology allows that tensions in the

Psychotherapy can be far more than a process in which the therapist fixes the careseeker. In many cases, people in distress come for help with expectations that the therapist will tell them exactly what to do in order to rid them of their symptoms. Some therapists do this, as in behavioral approaches that are prescriptive

Many would agree that there are great evils being perpetrated in the world today. Corporations have grown so large and powerful that they are able to pursue their selfish interests at the expense of the general public, and often to the severe detriment of the average person. They have so much money that they can

Splits and divisions We are at odds with ourselves internally; we believe that the inner is fundamentally different from the outer, that what is me is quite separate from the not-me, that divisions among people and nations are necessary, and yet we wonder why there are tensions, conflicts, wars in the world. The conflicts begin

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas .– Shoseki I am struck by the varieties of newer psychotherapeutic interventions that involve two or three modality stimulation of the brain and/or mind and/or body as a portion of their methodology. I speculate here on whether the multiple focus of awareness might be