Category: Psychology and Relationships
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Psychologist
It depends on what you need A psychologist may or may not practice relationship therapy. Some psychologists just do testing, research, or work in various organizations, such as schools and businesses. The difference between a psychologist and psychiatrist is that a psychiatrist can prescribe medicine because he or she has an M.D. An M.D. can…
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Online Relationship Counseling
Relationship is Learning When I look at online relationship counseling, I see a lot of good information. Many of the sites have articles relating to various relationship problems. Online relationship counseling sites help people think about relationships in a broader way. Relationship is learning. It is like anything else, in the beginning you don’t even…
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Relationship Therapy
Relationship Therapy is about “connecting”. Relationship therapy enhances “a feeling of being close”. This is a very tricky area. We may think we know, “being close”, and we do. Most of us have very wonderful feelings and memories of “being close” and “feeling connected”. However, sometimes and even many times these feelings are the opposite,…
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Marriage Tips: Easier Said than Done: Part two A little psychological knowledge makes it easier.
How do I reflect on difficult feelings and memories? Feel your body. Name the feeling or sensation with one word, without judging it, and if you do judge it, notice how you judged it. For example, as you go through your day, occasionally notice what feeling and sensation you are having and name it with…
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Free Counseling
Many psychotherapists have spaces for free or low fee counseling. Also, some therapists have free counseling for an initial session to see if it is the right fit for the therapist and client. Some clients need a particular type of therapist, given what they want to work on such as, a counselor that specializes in…
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Marriage Tips: Easier Said than Done
When I first hear a marriage tip, I know it’s easier said than done. Usually, the marriage tip is: do this and don’t do that. The following marriage tip from webMD is very true and usable, but what makes it so hard to put into practice? http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/7-marriage-tips-stay-lucky-love. Marriage Tip No. 2: Replace the 7 deadly…
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder, as defined by the Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/generalized-anxiety-disorder/DS00502 is very clear and simple. The symptoms include constant worrying, obsession over small things, and trouble sleeping to mention a few. This disorder is a group of symptoms that can be controlled by the individual, enabling you to reduce or eliminate medication. The treatments I…
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Dreams and Dreaming, Part one
Dreams are given as messages to balance and guide Dreams and dreaming have a relationship to us, whether we want a relationship or not. They range from the most terrifying to the most profound healing. Everyone dreams and most have a curiosity about them, but cannot understand their message. You may have heard the ancient…
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Marriage Therapy, Beyond my Parents and Culture
Learning and Unlearning, that is the question? Marriage therapy discovers how our parents and culture effected us. Cause and effect, they had parents and a culture too. We all had parents and grew up in various cultures, such as, urban, single parent, religious, money orientation, German heritage or Hispanic, etc. This is where we learned…
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Relationship Help
Various forms of Relationship Help Relationship help could address any form of relationship: marriage, parent/child, family, individual relationship to yourself, and individual counseling without the other person in the room. Relationship Help without the other person Sometimes it can be easier to start alone and get some counseling about a relationship in your life that…
