Your First Therapy Session
The first thing to look for when purchasing therapy, as in buying a used car, is knowing what you’re looking for.
What Is Intelligence and What Can You Do With It? (podcast $)
Intelligence is variously defined and plays different roles. Intelligence tests mirrors the history of psychology as a tool for marketing and propaganda. They mask your deeper self.
The Fourth Leg: Creativity (podcast $)
Psychotherapy recognizes three foundational areas: conscious intention, subconscious feelings, and habitual behaviors. Creativity is different, and it is overlooked.
Empathy Versus Synchrony (podcast $)
We say that empathy creates change, but it’s really synchrony that does it.
Sociogeny Recapitulates Ontogeny
“The burned hand learns best,” means you learn from errors that you can reverse, not from burning down the house.
Listen To Your Body ($)
Your physical best is when your metabolism, internal rhythms, mental focus, and purpose are aligned. This is equanimity.
Conversation With Rich Bennett, Rewire Your Brain for Growth (podcast)
You’re not your cognitive thoughts. You’re not your ideas. You are what you’re brain responds to.
Stepping Around Paranoia (podcast $)
Fear is a pervasive warning that diverts our attention from small matters of maintenance. Somewhat ironically, it can lead us into danger.
The Virtue of People. How Good Are You?
The world is full of different kinds of people. Should we be more concerned with our own quality?
Nonplaying Characters in Your Dreams (podcast $)
Ancillary characters playing a minor role in your dreams offer you an opportunity to understand and influence the dream.
The Last Election (podcast $)
There had been artificial candidates in local elections, to everyone’s amusement, but now, with a half billion dollar war chest, the artificial candidate, Ian Cressman, had everyone’s attention.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Clueless Mind ($)
An undirected person who invites chaos into an uncontrolled environment without boundaries is exactly the person who gets into trouble. They should not be using psychedelics.