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Archive for July, 2009

Why Keep Your Heart Open in Hell?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In my own life I have always felt stories and metaphors with morals have been powerful in helping me really get a message on a deeper level. This is no secret, that's why Chicken Soup ...

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7 Ways to Forgiveness: A Reader’s Perspective

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Not too long ago, I wrote the blog How Do We Forgive Ourselves? As a follow up to the blog ...

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Mondays Mindful Quote: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Monday, July 27th, 2009

There is a new tradition starting today on the Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Blog. Every Monday I'm going to cite a quote or a poem that is related to mindfulness and psychotherapy in some way and ...

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Got Stress? How Cultivating Sacred Moments can Help

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Therese Borchard, author of the popular blog Beyond Blue and her upcoming memoir Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes (January, 2010), recently wrote about 7 ...

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Can Mental Practice Improve Your Performance?

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Ever dream you could be more confident in social situations, ace that presentation or that you would actually be a better athlete? Results from a comprehensive study by Feltz and Landers in 1983 indicated that ...

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Top 10 Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Blog Posts

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Throughout the course of writing the blog Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, we have interacted around topics on mindfulness and forgiveness, grieving, meditation, medication, depression, stress, anxiety, self esteem, anger, and many more. Here are the top 10 ...

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Unwanted Feelings Knocking at Your Door? Try this…

Friday, July 17th, 2009

There are many things in life we don't seem to have control over in any given moment. These can be emotions that arise, things happening to us in our job or family situation, or how ...

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10 Quotes for a Mindful Day

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Sometimes quotes can be just the bite size piece of wisdom we need to pop us into a mindful state of mind. Here are 10 quotes from leading people in the filed of mindfulness that might just ...

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The Tipping Point, Mindfulness and Your Mental Health

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a best-selling book called The Tipping Point. In this book he discusses different products or ideas that have come up in history that at some point caught on to the masses. While ...

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Compassion: An Antidote to Anger?

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Mindfulness teacher and author Thich Nhat Hanh writes: The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off ...

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