Also On Wellness
Posts by Peter Strong, PhD
The convenience of Online Mindfulness Therapy is one of the most cited reasons why more and more people are turning to this first. All you need is a laptop with Skype installed (free download) and you are ready to start. Many people would like the opportunity of working on resolving their emotional problems, depression, anxiety, stress or past trauma but simply do not have the time to commute to and...
2/8/2010 9:07:30 PM
A phobia, from the Greek phobos, meaning to fear, is a recurrent irrational emotional and physiological reaction to an object or situation. Phobias are actually one of the most common forms of anxiety disorder and the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that as many as 10% of Americans suffer from phobias. The most well known phobias are the Specific Phobias produced in reaction to animate...
10/1/2009 8:19:54 AM
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) first came to the attention of doctors during the First World War when relatively large numbers of soldiers returned from combat exhibiting intense emotional distress in which they seemed to re-live the terrifying events of war long after the event. However, war is only one context in which PTSD arises. Later, it became clear that this phenomenon of delayed emotional...
10/1/2009 8:17:32 AM
Intense emotions like anxiety, grief, fear, anger or phobias or post-traumatic stress are formed when emotional feeling energy becomes concentrated in the form of an internal belief. Psychotherapy modalities such as CBT focus on these dysfunctional internal beliefs and attempt to change them through exposing the irrational nature of the belief and offering new belief models to the client. However,...
10/1/2009 8:16:24 AM
MMT is an exciting new development in which mindfulness is applied directly to help transform and resolve difficult emotional states such as anxiety, fear, phobias, anger and other forms of habitual emotional reactivity that affects the quality of our happiness and the quality of our personal relationships. Personal relationships provide one of the greatest challenges in life and most of us will experience...
10/1/2009 8:15:25 AM
MMT can be defined as: the direct application of mindfulness to the present felt-sense of an emotional complex to facilitate transformation, resolution and healing. DIRECT APPLICATION means that the individual trains to establish and sustain a quality of relationship with the inner experience of an emotion, called the Mindfulness Based Relationship. The quality of the MBR is the key factor that will...
10/1/2009 8:12:57 AM