Therapy and the Voice In Your Head

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon: I jokingly tell people that the only person I’m aware of who has had more therapy than me is Woody Allen. When I first started therapy, I was thirty-one years old.

7 May, 2014
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Stop and take a moment to pause your machinery

An excerpt from Chapter 1 of my recent book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available at Amazon.com. Stop and take a moment to “pause your machinery.” The concepts and techniques I present throughout my latest book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, require mindfulness

28 Apr, 2014
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A Life Lesson That Works

A long time ago I learned a “law of life”: Tell the truth and keep your agreements, and life will turn out perfectly. And “perfectly” may not fit your picture. Keeping Agreements “Keep your agreements” is easy to understand: It comes down to keeping your word, doing what you said you would do. To

27 Mar, 2014
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Judging Others

In my book My Mind Is Not Always My Friend: A Guide for How to Not Get in Your Own Way, I say that when we stop judging, love is everywhere. By judging, I mean negatively evaluating other people’s actions or words and expressing our evaluation to them in some way. When we

29 Aug, 2013
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Embrace Your Dark Side

Have you ever spent time with an acquaintance, friend, or family member and come away feeling upset because you thought he was conceited, arrogant, or aggressive or behaving in some other way you judged to be “wrong”? During a disagreement with someone, has the other person ever asked you why you were

15 Aug, 2013
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