You can transform your worried state. If you’re anxious, try these simple at-home interventions: 1. Distinguish the facts on the ground from fear-inducing media messages with hypothetical charts and graphs of future doom. Be informed but don’t watch the news all day....
Your inner experiences don’t all come from the same source. Some of them come from your conscious awareness but others come from unconscious parts of your mind —feelings, thoughts, and needs that aren’t yet accessible to your awareness. Before they’re made...
Greatness is achieved through personal isolation. Now it’s your turn to become great. Great musicians spend thousands of hours practicing alone. So do scientists, artists, entertainers, and to some extent, athletes. You can also apply this to your inner life and your...
I don’t usually use music in my practice but I want to tell you about a client who had a strange musical experience in our session. Sandy, a 46 year-old receptionist, told me that she’d been depressed ever since her divorce a year earlier, and despite doing her best to get on with life she couldn’t seem to break out of her sadness. I asked her to describe her feelings in detail and she said, “I feel lost and sad and empty but I try not to focus on it. It’s such a struggle.”
