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Explore the Optimizing Force

kelly@theatreofthemind.com (Kelly Howell) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:12:04 -0700

Patricia Albere has been a spiritual teacher and course leader, focused on the leading edge of consciousness for the last 37 years. In this show we explore The Optimizing Force. This evolutionary impulse brings forth all manifestation. It is pure creativity and dynamism. It is attuned, intelligent, alive, aware and responsive. We don’t need to make things happen – we need to listen and align with certain conditions that will allow the optimizing force to maximize all aspects of our experience and our lives.

Let Your Pain Free You From the Fear of It

guy.finley@guyfinley.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400

Show Notes:

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about why we must not be afraid to discover everything that we need to know about ourselves.

Highlights:
There is a definitive risk connected to opening oneself up to intimate relationships. Relationships introduce us to not only the light and bright parts of ourselves, but also to interior parts that are unknown and in the dark. Life serves to introduce us to ourselves. Life brings us lesson after lesson, but currently we are selective lesson choosers because we only want to see what we imagine will confirm the favorable pictures we have of ourselves. Why do we run away from so many moments in our lives? The short answer is that we run because of the pain we encounter. We want to get as close as possible to what we like finding out about ourselves, but we have no interest in getting close to what seems to cause us pain. As we repeatedly resist painful moments, which are intended to reveal to us our nature, we run through a series of cycles in which we change everything around us, only to end up back where we started as the same human being still wrestling with the same problem.

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Down & Up Show #61: Asian Americans and Depression

depressionisreal.org — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:01 +0000

Dr. Ken Duckworth, Medical Director, NAMI, speaks with Maggie Luo coordinator of the Chinese American Mental Health Outreach Program at NAMI, NJ. Maggie discusses how depression is experienced among the 15.5 million Asian American's living with the disease.

Thought Vibrations

seth@learnoutloud.com — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:00 PST

Today we present a selection from Thought Vibrations by William Atkinson. For more audio you can learn from, please visit www.learnoutloud.com.

When Love Turns to Anger

Lynette J. Hoy, NCC, LCPC — Tue, 4 Aug 2009 18:48:18 -0500

This Marriage 101 interview with Lynette Hoy, Anger Management Specialist, focuses on how couples can deal with the anger that is a normal part of every relationship.

Meditation and Concentration: Is Concentrating Beneficial?

noreply@blogger.com (Roy Masters) — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:42:18 PDT

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Wondering what the difference is between meditation and concentration? Could over-focusing and concentrating too hard counteract the positive benefits of meditation?

On this free meditation podcast, Monty reports a painful pressure in his sinuses when he meditates. Meditation expert Roy Masters knew immediately what the problem was and fills Monty in on the proper way to meditate.

Unlike many meditations being taught and practiced today, Roy Masters does not promote a heavy concentration-based exercise. His exercise is a free guided meditation called "Be Still and Know."

“You are taking a journey to your true self, and it is a little painful, because you have to undo a whole lifetime of conditioning of who you are.”

If you are having difficulty concentrating in a productive way, listen to this podcast now!

Quotes regarding meditation and concentration from Roy Masters’ books:

“Concentration is the way you produce hypnosis; but observation is the way you produce meditation; Observation is the 'opposite' of concentration and is the way you free a fixated attention.

If you concentrate hard enough, you will become hypnotized; but if you can observe gently, you will wake up. A continuous process of observing self leads one out of the hypnotic state we all live in towards a source of knowing called understanding.

“Understanding is to meditation as knowledge is to hypnotism.”
- The Hypnosis of Life

“True awareness is a healthy, observing attitude that protects from all dangers. But in your subjective state of preoccupation with worry and ambition, you have fallen into ridiculous predicaments. You have had accidents and become involved with the wrong people. Frightened and realizing your need for greater awareness, you may have even tried to force awareness. You began by making sure you did not repeat the same mistakes. Unfortunately, this procedure leads to a limited, subjective state of mind. You become so suspiciously aware, so preoccupied with each incident that you tend to make even more mistakes than you otherwise would—and you are even more mystified by them in view of the fact that you are trying so hard.

For example, while at the beach you cut your foot on a piece of glass. The next time you are there, you are more cautious, ever conscious of the potential danger of glass lying half-hidden in the sand. You are so preoccupied with the fear of that possible danger that you fail to see a volleyball coming straight at you. The next time at the beach you are so worried about glass and volleyballs that you do not even see the dog that bites you after you have tripped over him.

This type of forced awareness, which results from concentration and self-effort, is really a diminishing awareness, increasingly preoccupied with more and more things and circumstances.You are taking in too much knowledge unbuffered by understanding.”
- How to Conquer Negative Emotions

“Be careful not to concentrate so hard, with so much emotional investment that you make a god of learning and intellectual achievement. If you feel driven to learn you may be using the acquisition of knowledge as an escape from the more important reality considerations with which you should be concerning yourself. Remember that anything you use as an escape corrupts and creates an addiction to the source of corruption, whatever it might be.”
- Surviving the Comfort Zone

“When you concentrate, or fixate away from Reality, toward goals and pleasures, you temporarily forget the condemnation of conscience and the ultimate penalty of death. Instead, you feel the stirrings of a new self-righteous, earthy creature life. You trade your true and eternal life for a selfish ego life.”
- Surviving the Comfort Zone

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Domestic Violence, Interview with Lester Bentley :: Podcast 37

Jeffrey P. Kerekes, MSSW, LCSW — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:00:00 -0400

Jeffrey Kerekes, MSSW, LCSW interviews Lester Bentley a mental health professional and adjunct professor at SCSU discusses Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence.

Welcome to DrBeckham dot com Podcasts

Ed Beckham, Ph.D. — Sat, 8 Oct 2005 23:39:03 -0600

This is an introductory podcast explaining the nature and purpose of the podcasts on this site. These podcasts are produced for educational purposes and are not meant as therapy.

FeelingDoing01

feelingdoing@gmail.com — Tue, 24 May 2005 00:42:40 GMT

Introductory podcast in which Fran discusses the nature of recovery from mental illness. What does work?