These are factors that balance the brain.

I haven't spent much of my life looking at cartoons but I have heard that they can have a deeper message.  In this case, I think it does.  We all have a dark side and while it is easy to 'project' this onto others, consider this for the ...

(From Wired For Joy by Laurel Melin)

Brain State	Use This Tool	Effect
1. Feeling Great!	Sanctuary Tool	Celebrate 1
2. Feeling Good	Feelings Check Tool	Get to 1
3. A Little Stressed	Emotional Housecleaning Tool	Get to 1
4. Definitely Stressed	Cycle ...

This is a new area of interest for me that I am exploring. From doing self-EMDR and mindfulness techniques, I have come to belief that the level of stress we are at is what is driving our behavior and that our brain is changing levels of stress all the time.

One of the tasks in EMDR therapy is to make a list of the ten most highly charged emotional things that have happened to you.  Usually, this would be over your lifetime; however, this could also be for a recent trauma or event that would have several different aspects to it. 

We do this to help identify targets upon which to do the EMDR processing.

• Think of times when you were emotionally upset.
• Something unfair, threatenting or life-threatening was done to you or someone close to you.
• You witnessesed or experienced an emotionally charged event.

Take it easy on yourself when doing it. 

Notice how difficult it is to start it. 

Notice feelings that arise while doing it.

Notice that these things all have an

This is a five part video talk on The Projected Self:  A nondual perspective on emotional regulation, conscious relationships and making effective change.

This will give you a very different perspective on life situations that make you upset.

 

I just spent the last four hours talking with a man who has spent the last 8 years in prison.  He openly realizes that he is there because of his criminal behavior and bad decisions he was making, at the time, to get him sentenced in

 

This is quote from the talk:  "And for those who ask what about ‘negative’ desires ( and ‘negative’ only being whatever you consider negative for in the larger sense there is no good or bad) then understand that