Thoughts from a Therapist

Helpful tips on How to Expand your Personal and Relational Wellness

Category: Spirituality

  • Placebo effect – an underrated healer

    Quick summary: I am going to suggest that we might be able to use mindfulness to gain control over the ‘placebo effect’ thereby positively influencing recovery of physical and mental disturbances. In scientific investigation it is always important to rule out the placebo effect when studying the effects of an intervention. To do so, researchers…

  • Guided Visualization for Emotional Resiliency – comforting a younger you

    Quick summary: I will offer a visualization technique that allows for a person to comfort their self so as to reach a resolution for a strong emotion or a ruminating thought that is being carried. Often we carry an emotional reactivity to certain stimuli that is based in part on an unresolved issue that happened…

  • Gestalts vs. Math and deductive reasoning

    Does Gestalt theory (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts) display one of the limitations of math in general? In other words does gestalt theory show that not all reality can be quantified with mathematical equations? As far as I can see (and I am far from an expert) math is based…

  • Love with the mind, the body and the spirit

    Quick summary: We experience love with the mind the body and the spirit… to maximize the love in your relationship you can focus on all three…