Posts tagged with 'values'
"To reach the other shore with each step of the crossing": zazen, associative thinking & value-driven behaviour (1st post)
26th December 2012
(This post & the next in the series are downloadable combined into a Word doc or a PDF file) "But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new." Shunryu Suzuki In 1970 I started to learn meditation with the Cambridge Buddhist …
Going back for a university reunion: reconstructing our personal stories (2nd post)
12th August 2012
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts" Salman Rushdie I wrote a first post …
Update on website traffic: my own favourite top 15 (11-15) - exercise, lifestyle, writing, goal setting & positive psychology
7th August 2012
Earlier this year I used Google Analytics to identify the most read pages on this website and I wrote the post "Update on website traffic: the ten most popular blog posts". I then wondered - "What are my own personal favourites?" and I quickly realised that the posts that I've …
Going back for a university reunion: stirring up memories, avoidant attachment, "puffing up" and kindness (1st post)
5th August 2012
"The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices." Irvin Yalom "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or …
Purpose in life: clarifying future goals & the challenges we will face in achieving them (for individuals, couples & groups)
18th July 2012
(This post on purpose in life: clarifying future goals & the challenges we will face in achieving them, and yesterday's on purpose in life: reconnecting to meaning & values, have been combined into a handout that is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) "Those who …
Purpose in life: reconnecting to meaning & values
17th July 2012
(This post on purpose in life: reconnecting to meaning & values, and tomorrow's on purpose in life: clarifying future goals & the challenges we will face in achieving them, have been combined into a handout that is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) I have …
Purpose in life: how do you score on the questionnaire & why does it matter?
16th July 2012
"When I get to heaven, God will not ask ‘Why were you not Moses?'. He will ask ‘Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi (This post on purpose in life questionnaires and the previous one on the importance …
Purpose in life: reduces dementia risk, increases life expectancy, treats depression and builds wellbeing
23rd May 2012
I was struck by a paper published this month in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry - "Effect of purpose in life on the relation between Alzheimer disease pathologic changes on cognitive function in advanced age". The authors wrote "In recent years, systematic examination has shown that purpose in life …
Particularly if you're socially anxious, try to stay task-focused rather than self-focused
17th December 2011
(This & last week's social anxiety blog posts are available as a PDF file or a Word doc - you may need to 'save' the latter before you can open it) "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point" C. …
Fear of blushing is more a problem of hyperawareness than of facial temperature
10th December 2011
(This & next week's social anxiety blog posts are available as a PDF file or a Word doc - you may need to 'save' the latter before you can open it) "At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and …