Here, Now AND Far Away
The story we tell ourselves about the world & ourselves is how we perceive & understand these. Though we each contribute some unique...
Rational Thought - AND - Awareness
Rational thought & language (discursive rationality, personal-verbal processing) are essential for science & technology, which in turn...
Self-talk - a Love / Hate Relationship
We tend to inhabit a thought-world - 'the story of me'. Incessant self-talk is, we assume, our 'self' telling us who we are...
Just This? Now??
"The key activity of modern Western psychotherapy is to enhance the experience of the observing self, discriminating it from the contents...
What is "Normal" Development?
We can refer to what is developing or maturing as a noun: character or ego, or instead use adjectives: psychosocial or...
Things I SHOULD Worry About??
A thoughtful participant in an 8-week MBSR course shared that, while much of "self-talk" is just a distraction, some thoughts do actually...
Language & the Filter of Social Reality
Some 200,000 years ago, “we invented language and began to talk. As we talked with each other, we began constructing symbolically...
