The Karma of Behaving Badly
The descent to Hell is easy; the gates stand open night and day; but to reclaim the slope, and escape to the upper air, this is labor. – Virgil
It's just pixels on the screen until you create an image
It's just stimulus elements until you create your reality
The descent to Hell is easy; the gates stand open night and day; but to reclaim the slope, and escape to the upper air, this is labor. – Virgil
Do not become attached to the things you like;
do not maintain aversion to the things you dislike.
Sorrow, fear, and bondage come from one’s likes and dislikes.
–Buddha
It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties
in which internal states and external events
continually create the conditions for the reoccurrence of each other.
–Paul Wachtel
[twg_gpo_button] My academic training in cognitive and neural sciences along with the more expensive education earned over 3 decades of helping my clients escape the self-sabotaging traps they have created …
[twg_gpo_button] I am a psychologist who works with those who can afford my fee. My clients tend to be impressive individuals who generally accomplish what they set out to accomplish; …
For every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing
–Friedrich Nietzsche
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
–Sidonie Colette
[twg_gpo_button] We are each dealt a particular biology, psychological history, and current social environment. From these parts emerges a new entity—the Psyche—with attributes that did not exist before. Even the …
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.
-Martin Seligman
[twg_gpo_button] Suggestion, the use of imagination to manipulate subjective phenomena can be used to counter many addictive traps. This procedural skill requires a creative imagination and the ability to focus …