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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Music Therapy: How to Find Mental Harmony and Peace
Music therapy is used naturally on a daily basis – when we unwind or enliven our moods by listening to our favorite pieces. Music shapes us while we are still in our mothers’ womb, helps us learn throughout childhood, alleviates suffering, guides us to overcome adversity, and engages our eldering brains. But music goes further,…
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How to Get Over a Toxic Relationship
Getting out of a toxic relationship isn’t easy, nor is getting over it. As with the end of any relationship, there is a grieving process involved. Grieving the loss of a relationship, even with a toxic person, looks a little different for everybody, and there is no time limit or “right” way to do it.…
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How Play Therapy Can Enable Healthy Thoughts for Children
Child play therapy is supposed to improve intelligence, speech, and social behaviors, reduce aggression, conduct disorder, anxiety, or fear and help children recover from trauma. It is widely used as a self-help way to overcome obstacles for traumatized or disabled children and is based on a fundamental activity for overall development. By definition, we play…
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How to Fake ADHD
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental condition that most people do not want to experience. Those who have ADHD find themselves struggling to pay attention when they know they need to and might even catch themselves interrupting others without truly intending to do so. ADHD is an invasive condition that impacts a person’s quality of…
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Mental Illness: How to Improve Sense through Therapy?
The ways of the human mind are limitless and beyond typical scientific understanding. Mental illness has been the subject of countless research papers throughout history. The road to our current understanding of it has taken us through valleys wrought with unethical practices, cays of erring thoughts, and finally, psychoanalytical processes that ultimately brought upon some…
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Couples Counseling Visits: What to Expect?
All of us deal with relationship problems at certain points in our lives. Even the functional couples can have escalating arguments, and, therefore, finding themselves in an impasse. A good conflict resolution might be provided by couples counseling. Not many people are willing to go to a relationship counselor. This is mostly because of their…
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Family Counseling Guide: Preparing for The First Visit
All family relationships are tricky. Even when you find yourself in a healthy balanced relation, there are still some things or issues that can appear along the way. Unfortunately, most people avoid going to family counseling, and would rather prefer to deal with these problems on their own. No matter how skilled you are at…
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How to Become Emotionally Detached – Is It Truly Possible?
Oftentimes, emotional detachment is viewed as a strictly negative thing. We tend to think of emotionally detached individuals as being aloof, overwhelmed, and even a bit cold in terms of their personality. However, that is not exactly accurate in some cases. In fact, emotional detachment can sometimes be a temporary means of coping with difficulties…
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Dealing with Addiction: Rehab, Therapy, And Self-Motivation
Addiction is a relapsing brain disease. It involves a person’s motivation system, which is working in an altered way. Substance abuse is the most common fixation type, but there are also other kinds of obsessions such as food, gambling, computer games, sex, workaholic tendencies, and more. What Is Addiction? Understanding addiction can be pretty hard when…
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How to Live with a Narcissist?
Learning how to live with a narcissist is anything but easy. This person may be a family member, significant other, or a roommate. Either way, understanding their words and actions can be, at the very least, confusing. The things that this person might say and do can be hurtful and unfounded. The key to learning…
