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To Be A Machine
The human urge to transcend physical existence and death is a powerful one. But is the application of so much human ingenuity in this direction a good idea? Tags: control, death, existentialism, meaning, mind-body, responsibility, society, technology (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: control death existentialism meaning mind-body responsibility society technology Source Type: news

The Grief-Joy Spiral
Do joy and grief share something essential in common? And by cutting out one, do we end up cutting ourselves off from the other? Tags: bereavement, emotions, mindful awareness, relationships, zen (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: bereavement emotions mindful awareness relationships zen Source Type: news

Are You Waiting for a Text from Yourself?
It's time to examine the mental inbox. Have you been getting messages from yourself, read them and ignored them? Are you set permanently to 'do not disturb'? Have you actually blocked your own number? Tags: in practice, mindful awareness, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice mindful awareness therapy Source Type: news

The Emotional Charge of Money and Currencies of Worth
Money as we know it today is a system of exchange -- but it is no longer a neutral system. It's a sprawling, dominant monopoly that can leave individuals feeling worthless. Is there another way? Tags: meaning, politics, society, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: meaning politics society work-life Source Type: news

A Cure for Pain?
It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there's an underlying assumption that we shouldn't be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself. Tags: book, medications, mind-body, mindful awareness, online mental health (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - July 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: book medications mind-body mindful awareness online mental health Source Type: news

Meditating, Mindfulness and Excuses
My conviction is this: whatever you actually manage to do, with the sincere intention to improve your life, will work. There really is no shortage of methods. The trick is in managing to do the thing, whatever it is. Tags: anxiety and stress, meditation, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress meditation mindful awareness Source Type: news

When Words Aren ’ t The Point – Reiki and Counselling
The Reiki system shares a foundation with person centred therapy: the practitioner does not 'do something to' or give something to the client, but makes conditions that facilitate people's own natural growth or healing. Tags: in practice, mind-body, person-centred, therapy, tools (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice mind-body person-centred therapy tools Source Type: news

Breathing 101
Breathing is always there to help and calm you down, to create the sense of safety and a secure base that we all need, but we need to learn how to use this precious resource. Tags: anxiety and stress, mindful awareness, relaxation (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress mindful awareness relaxation Source Type: news

A Felt Sense of What ’ s Important
Thoughts and feelings can argue with each other forever, but the 'felt sense' can reveal some of the wisdom to be found in our complex of thoughts, feelings, histories and relationships. Tags: focusing, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - June 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: focusing mindful awareness Source Type: news

Practice Makes Perfect
Are you a world-class worrier, or going for gold in the anxiety stakes? We need to pay attention to what we practice. Tags: anxiety and stress, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress mindful awareness Source Type: news

How Many Problems Do You Create By Assuming You Have Problems?
Assuming that people have difficulties can seem caring but can actually turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why is it so hard to allow the possibility of things being fine? Tags: in practice, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice therapy Source Type: news

Luck Swallows Everything
Are we ultimately responsible for who we are and the choices we make? Can we choose to be the person who is able to make them? And if not, does this really change anything in the way we live? Tags: book, decision making, ethics, mind-body, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: book decision making ethics mind-body responsibility Source Type: news

The ‘ Unstoried Life ’ — Not Having a Narrative
In Things That Bother Me, Galen Strawson includes a beautiful account of his own experience as an 'unstoried' self, someone to whom it simply does not come naturally to experience life as a story. I feel amazingly affirmed by Strawson's words. Tags: ethics, existentialism, meaning, therapy, writing (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: ethics existentialism meaning therapy writing Source Type: news

Are We Doomed?
Climate change, with its predictable consequences, appears irreversible. Can coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis help us to deal with the situation? Tags: death, denial, motivation, news and research, politics, public health (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: death denial motivation news and research politics public health Source Type: news

What is the Natural State?
The natural state of being with myself, others and everything else, the way I am when circumstances allow, is like being plugged into the current of life. Tags: meditation, relationships, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: meditation relationships society Source Type: news