“Anxiety can be reduced in many ways that do not depend on the development of more of a self” (Kerr, & Bowen, 1988, p.127). There are a multitude of ways to reduce anxiety, we only have to google ‘how to keep calm’ for literally hundreds of thousands of results to pop up: get enough sleep,…
For a decade or so, back in the day when I practiced meditation intensively, I attended a good deal of silent meditation retreats each year in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition. Some were ten day long retreats, some fifteen days, some thirty days. At this time, I, along with other participants would take a vow of…
Drugs & Alcohol- a symptom of the system Drugs and alcohol have been used by human beings for millennia. Today, the ‘drug war’ receives near constant media attention even though most modern drugs were discovered and consumed many millennia ago. The prevalent view of addiction these days is that it is a disease which is…
Anxiety- Chronic or Acute? We all experience anxiety from time to time, it is a natural condition of being alive. Anxiety is our response to a threat, real or imagined, and exists on a continuum – from a short lived spike in heart rate to a paralysing stress response. It is normal for us to…