It's Not Me, It's You: How to End a Friendship

Though I am in the change business, I am quite sure that the fundamental ourselves does not. As wisdom is the side effect of our years we get better acquainted with who we are, what we need, and how to speak to these insights. This NY Times article talks from this reference point and the somewhat awkward phenomenon of ending friendships that no longer serve even in this Facebook era.

Go to this great article by clicking here.

When Your Therapist Is Only A Click Away

Since telepsychiatry was introduced decades ago, video conferencing has been an increasingly accepted way to reach patients in hospitals, prisons, veterans’ health care facilities and rural clinics — all supervised sites.

But today Skype, and encrypted digital software through third-party sites like CaliforniaLiveVisit.com, have made online private practice accessible for a broader swath of patients, including those who shun office treatment or who simply like the convenience of therapy on the fly.

Go here for the rest of this New York Times article.  I would love to know your feed back to this form of therapeutic interaction.

Where Have All the Wise Men Gone?

Wisdom can be the side effect of our years, though it may not be necessarily so. Huffington Post online has put up an article by Michael Meade.  "Elders vs. Olders" is a coined phrase in "Where Have All the Wise Men Gone?", which deserves a good look see. Let me know what you think.

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

Hemingway was presumed to have suffered a deep depression with paranoid psychosis in his final years. He went through several suicide attempts before the completed one and multiple ECT treatments as well. Now we see that The Feds actually had him under deep surveillance illustrating that paranoid delusions at times have their seeds in fact.

For the New York Times article go here.

Jung says, 'create your own Red Book...'

 

"You will consider yourself mad," Jung told me. It feels small, and cheap, and in a sense unworthy and off-base, but I no longer feel mad once the book is closed: I feel confused, intrigued by the book's mythological and literary merit, and maybe a bit dismissive of its supposed importance. Martin, though, cites the imperative that Jung himself used to deliver to his patients as a means to finding meaning in the book's pages: "When Jung says, ‘create your own Red Book...' what he means is, value the material that comes out of your own inner world, and treat it with respect, dignity and objectivity. And if you do that, your life will be different."

For the entire Psychology Today article, "The Red Book: One Man's Turmoil" go HERE.

Brain Study Reveals Secrets of Staying Madly in Love

Researchers compared the brain scans of long-term married individuals to the scans of individuals who have recently fallen in love. Surprisingly, the results revealed similar activity in specific brain regions for both long-term, intense romantic love and couples in early-stage romantic love. These particular brain regions could be the clue to why certain couples stay madly in love years, even decades, later.

For the entire online Psychology Today article go HERE

The Path of Love

The longing to return to the Arms of the Beloved is at the root of every emotion, every desire that we have. This is inclusive of every romantic notion, every melancholic yearning for a lost or current love, every Bhakti moment at the feet of the Master. The draw of death and the desire to return to the womb are but misplaced yearnings born of our having forgotten that we are in fact, in every moment One with All Things - that there is no separation. To truly know this arrests all, as Beauty arrests motion. Remembrance is the most profound of all spiritual practices. The heart does know, what the head does not. The Beloved is ever with me and I and the Beloved are One. As the Sufis say: ishq allah ma'bud allah - God is Love, Lover, and Beloved. This life is indeed The Path of Love. Be in Love, Be Love.