Are you absolutely sure you have “free will”? Does a person that has claustrophobia have free will to relax or panic in confined spaces? Does this same person have “free will” to get help to eliminate their phobic responses to confined spaces? If you have read my previous post you …
This is a 6 minute Video on “The Free Will Illusion & What Would Jesus Do?”: Many of us like to believe we’re entirely in control of our actions—rational agents, freely choosing right from wrong. But what if much of what we do is governed by unseen forces—our biology, …
Are you a hostage to your emotions or do you have emotional choice?A good beginning would be to know your emotional palette. Everyone you know has an emotional palette and very few people are aware of their 5-7 common emotions. Many of us simply feel good or bad. Your emotions …
Was it a large or small pink elephant with white spots? Despite my instruction not to think of it, you likely visualized it anyway. That’s because our brains struggle with processing negations. This is a 9 minute audio “Deep Dive”. Listen with new ears: When it comes to technology—our smartphones, …
At the beginning of the Cold War and the emerging nuclear arms race between USA and the USSR in the late 1940s, a reporter asked Albert Einstein: “What question haven’t you been asked that you wish someone would ask?” He replied: “Is the world a safe place or a dangerous …
What if cruelty isn’t always monstrous, but simply a result of misaligned perspectives? This is a 6-minute video: The question of what causes human evil – cruelty, indifference, and acts of harm – has haunted philosophers, mental health workers, and theologians for centuries. We’ve blamed ideology, trauma, biology, and …
That three letter word is “try”. I mean using it “to attempt to do something”. The word “try” is a very powerful word to many people’s unconscious minds. The word “try” means fail. That is where the saying comes from: “try and try again until you succeed”. Listen to the …
This is an 11-minute Podcast on the Yellow Brick Road: And here’s why – “The Wizard of Oz” has probably been seen by almost every adult over forty years old in the western world. It was produced in 1939, has shown on TV since the 1980’s, and everyone remembers …
This is a 17 – minute “Deep Dive” into the inner world of a man paralyzed from the neck down – a man who chooses internal peace over physical recovery: In 1979, my next‑door neighbor in Houston, Texas was in a car accident that changed everything. I’m writing about …
I am now 80 years old. I sent this email in 2020, to my teenage grandkids: This is a 6-minute video overview of my email: “The most important part is in the next-to-last paragraph. I started thinking about the jobs I’ve had from age 5 to 75. I’d never …
This is a 5 – minute overview video on creating your future; Let’s start with a simple exercise and then work up on the postings: Think of some situation at work or in life that is making you unsatisfied and you want it to change (relationships, physical health, mental …
In 1984, I didn’t know the term “memory reconsolidation”. No one in the psychotherapy field did. What I knew – purely from results – was that if you could get a person into the emotional state tied to a traumatic event, and then require them to perform a specific internal …
