Posts tagged with 'hypnosis'
Leeds BABCP conference: compassion focused therapy & CBT, John Vlaeyen & treating chronic pain problems (8th post)
2nd August 2012
In June I wrote a series of five posts reporting on a pre-conference workshop (about treating chronic fatigue) and the first day of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) main annual conference, held this year in Leeds. Then last month I wrote a further couple of posts. …
Co-running a day on mindfulness & hypnosis
3rd October 2011
A dozen Powerpoint slides I put together for this seminar are downloadable by clicking here. A couple of days ago, a friend and I ran a day seminar on "Mindfulness & hypnosis" for the Scottish Branch of the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis (BSMDH). The learning objectives we'd …
What is mindfulness?
28th September 2011
I wrote a couple of days ago - in the blog post "Mindfulness: teaching & learning" - about a day workshop I'm due to co-run this Saturday on "Mindfulness & hypnosis". One of the learning objective for this workshop is "To understand what ‘mindfulness' involves". I find it helpful to …
Mindfulness: teaching & learning
26th September 2011
It's a funny week for me. On Thursday I'm due to start an 8 week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course as a participant, and on Saturday I'm scheduled to co-run a one day workshop on Mindfulness & Hypnosis. I've been involved in mindfulness practice for a long time. I joined …
Four aspects model & some associated evidence for relaxation, meditation & imagery
13th September 2009
Relaxation, meditation, mindfulness, hypnosis, imagery and other associated methods form a complex, loosely interlinked field. The "Four aspects of helpful inner focus" model, that I've put together to help me make more sense of this territory, looks like this: For a downloadable copy of this diagram click here. There is …
Barbara Fredrickson’s recent research study on loving-kindness meditation (third post)
21st December 2008
What are some implications for using forms of mind training for ourselves and for teaching others? Reading this research study leads me to think about optimum amount of time spent practising these methods, the importance of encouraging application during daily life. I discuss these issues in this blog posting. It …
Barbara Fredrickson’s recent research study on loving-kindness meditation (second post)
14th December 2008
I have already written an initial blog post about Barbara Fredrickson and colleagues' interesting recent research paper (Fredrickson, Cohn et al. 2008) on the effects of teaching people loving-kindness meditation. So what are some possible implications of this research for people in general, for using forms of mind training (meditation, …
Barbara Fredrickson’s recent research study on loving-kindness meditation (first post)
7th December 2008
I've just been reading the recent paper by Barbara Fredrickson and colleagues "Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources" (Fredrickson, Cohn et al. 2008). It's quite a long read - 16 closely printed A4 pages - and it's fascinating in a whole …
Four aspects of helpful inner focus: 2.) nourishing positive states (part A)
29th October 2008
Ten days ago, on this blog, I wrote about "Reducing negative states" as one aspect of a simple model entitled "Four aspects of helpful inner focus" (see below). The model is a method I've evolved to help me organize and think about the many facets of deliberately induced altered states …
Four aspects of helpful inner focus: 1.) reducing negative states
19th October 2008
I started meditating regularly while I was still at university in the early 1970's. I then went on a number of meditation retreats and visited a whole series of monasteries and ashrams. By the late 70's I had a good deal of experience of a fruit salad of methods including …