Breathing is the only part of the autonomic system you can operate directly, which is why it is the most reliable regulation tool available and also the most oversold. The …
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Most of what makes yoga calming is not the poses. It is slow nasal breathing with a long exhale, held for twenty minutes or more, in a warm room where …
Integration is the part after the finding, and it is where most shadow work stops. Recognising that you are competitive, or controlling, or that you resent someone you are supposed …
Manifest content is the dream as you remember it — the events, people and images you could describe to someone. Latent content is the hidden meaning Freud believed lay beneath …
For the people most likely to be told to use them, repeating positive statements about yourself has been found to make things worse. That is the actual finding, from a …
They are not competing versions of the same thing. Therapy is a regulated clinical relationship with training, oversight and outcome trials behind it. Shadow work is a self-directed reflective practice …
Nothing is literally stuck. The stress response is designed to switch on and off, and when it appears permanent what has usually happened is that the switching-off has stopped being …
The honest answer depends on which part of manifestation you mean, and Christians do not agree. The practice of writing goals down, praying about them and working towards them has …
The research on this points the opposite way to the advice. Vividly imagining a desired outcome as though it has already happened reduces the effort people put in and the …
Shadow work is a method for noticing the parts of yourself you disowned, using your disproportionate reactions to other people as the instrument. The practice is straightforward: log your reactions …

