The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk MD Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with...

30 Uses of Hypnosis

This is not an exhaustive list, but is designed to give you an idea of the range of conditions that can be helped at Technologies of the Self. Addictions-Smoking Cessation, Substance Abuse Anger Management Bedwetting Career/Financial Success Confidence/Motivation/Self...

The Challenge of Being a Night Owl

In an interesting personal post at Psychology Today, Are You a Morning Lark or a Night Owl?, a Denver psychologist, Shawn T. Smith,  shares his experience of trying to negotiate life as a night owl. Not only only is it difficult to run errands, like make it to the...

Night Owls More Intelligent?

Since we humans don’t get around naturally very well during the dark hours, we tend to be diurnal creatures. There are a very few (1 in 10) that wake up before the alarm goes off, ready to start their day, even before day break. These “early...

The Dark Night and Clinical Depression

There is an interesting article on Beliefnet’s blog, Beyond Blue: A spiritual journey to mental health, in which Terese J. Borchard attempts to draw a line between the experience of loss and spiritual dryness which John of the Cross described as the Dark Night...