Fight, Flight, Freeze, Submit
It is probably easy to recognise the ‘fight, flight, freeze, submit’ response in our lives, thinking back over time, but when this subconscious process is at work in our lives, responding to a perceived threat, it is most usual to be carried along with it unaware of any other possible responses. If the threat always […]
Healing Messages in Ancient Wisdom
The therapeutic content of Buddhist doctrine is a familiar idea. Much of therapeutic Mindfulness practice comes from the Buddhist tradition. So, Buddhism has become a prominent source of healing wisdom in contemporary society. Exciting as it is to meet these ideas if you were not lucky enough to be brought up Buddhist in the first […]
Stress, Hidden Stress, and Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain
Moments of psychological breakthrough can be accompanied by euphoric feelings and a sense of everything coming together to take life to a higher level. They can be the result of a deliberate campaign of improvement or can come suddenly and unexpectedly. Just as they can be euphoric in nature, so they just as well may […]
When Mental and Physical Difficulties Make it Hard to Help Others
I wonder if it is possible to care too much. This can seem a question almost too clearly wrong to even consider. And the answer is probably, no, but if the care that is given to others is not reflected in care given by yourself to yourself, with the same quality and space given to […]
Held Back by Physical and Emotional Symptoms?
If the main focus and passion in your work is helping or serving others, for example in health, social or education settings, it can be truly upsetting and frustrating if the projects you really want to pursue are reduced in scope or you have to be put them on hold because of debilitating physical and […]
