Posts Tagged ‘consciousness’

The Problem of Now in Recovery from Depression

Written by John on June 8th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by monkeytime at Flickr For a long time, I found it hard to relate to the idea of living in the present moment as a method of recovery from depression. The present never seemed all that attractive when I felt smothered by its darkness. That’s the way it had been in the [...]

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Tags: acceptance, awareness, consciousness, detachment, healing, identity, Recovery
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Many Selves, One Mindful Direction

Written by John on May 3rd, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by visulogik at Flickr 1. I walk around with a crowd inside – so many selves wanting to go in different directions. Too many voices are talking all at once, and it’s hard to pick out the one I need to listen to right now. Here’s the intuitive talker, waking up with [...]

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Tags: anxiety, awareness, brain, consciousness, control, creativity, depression, dissociative personality disorder, intuition, love, mindfulness, multiple personalities, order, Paul Bloom, research, self, spirituality, struggle, tension
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Dreams, Depression & Spirituality – 2

Written by John on March 9th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by Elena Acin at Flickr Insightful comments by Stephany and Jane are helping me get to another stage in dealing with depression. In a previous post I started wondering if there might be a very different way of imagining and experiencing this illness. Could there be a way of adapting that started [...]

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Tags: breakthrough, consciousness, creativity, depression, dream, Jane Chin, learning, practice, spirituality, Stephany
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What Depression Can Do – 1: Disappearing

Written by John on August 17th, 2007
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Narrative (Rights Reserved) I can't remember when this started happening. I'm walking about in everyday life reacting to nothing, feeling nothing, and it's happening now when I'm on the job, running a meeting with 20 people around a table. This is not the self-control I developed as a kid, the bottling up of intense feeling [...]

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Tags: consciousness, disappearing, floating, missing, work
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