Video: Conscious Intention, Mastery & Health
Controlling for all confounding variables, researchers have found that people who live their lives with mastery, that is, taking charge of their lives, making conscious choices, and dealing with disappointments and tragedy as challenges rather…
Video: Be the Master of Your Life
Mastery & wellbeing refers to a resilient approach to life with self-efficacy. It reduces emotional distress, empowers individuals, creates hope, improves physiological and psychological functioning. People with mastery & wellbeing work…
Video: Be the Director of Your Life
How to cultivate the ability to effectively meet the challenges of daily life and to feel in control of our choices. This is the opposite of feeling hopeless/helpless. It is about living with conscious intention. Become the director of your…
Video: How the Mind Affects Health
The mind has profound effects on physiological functioning and health. Emotional distress causes physiological stress and dysfunction, which, when chronic, eventuates in disease. In this discussion, we also address the healthy physiological…
Mindfulness-Based Self-Care
Infuse Mindfulness in Every Self-Care Activity
It can be a challenge to spend considerable time engaged in self-care—in what we truly need—when we would rather be working or playing or chasing what we want. Unless we use self-care activities…
Our Use of Language Affects Our State of Health.
“I’m Terminal” Is a Dangerous Use of Language
It’s common to hear someone with very advanced cancer say, “I’m terminal.” In the last stages of the disease, this acceptance of death is healthy and allows for a more peaceful dying…
What We Resists Persists and Negatively Impacts Our Health.
Uncomfortable Thoughts and Feelings: An Invitation to Mastery
The more energy we expend on avoiding our uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, the further we get from achieving the desired comfort. By contrast, when we courageously commit to…
Still More on Cognitive Fusion
An Approach to Cognitive Fusion with Beliefs
During my three years of training at the Simonton Cancer Center, there were many retreat participants who claimed they were willing to do whatever it took to get well, but such a commitment was…
More on the Danger of Cognitive Fusion
Recognizing Cognitive Fusion in Language
According to Professor Kelly Wilson, Cognitive fusion commonly involves entanglement with categorical and judgmental thought. Red flags are words like should, shouldn’t, right, wrong, good, bad,…