Sublime

Buddhism has an interesting expression for ethical behavior: “the bliss of blamelessness.” What this means is that whatever we think, say, or do (or don’t do) has an influence on our state of mind in meditations and in life in general—and how we progress on the path of insight. If we act against our values this will reverberate in how we feel. We m

For our modern purposes, the fields can perhaps be grouped into seven generic fields--physiological, economical, intellectual, emotional, social, technical, and ecological.

A key feature of the defences we build up against our primal wounds is that they are rigid and so limit our room for manoeuvre. For example, we may have very distinctive but unfortunate characters we go for in love; or we can’t be touched in certain places; or we feel we have to be constantly cynical or else insistently jolly. Our sense of who we a

Limited Emotional Self-Control: HCPs feel emotions very strongly and are almost entirely dominated by their negative emotions. Their responses often appear out of proportion to the event at hand. We are all hardwired to pay more attention to negative emotions because doing so is a survival instinct. We all have histories that inform our emotional r

The psychoanalyst Philip M. Bromberg wrote, “Health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.

creativity, courage, curiosity, a sense of connection, compassion, clarity, calm, confidence.

I estimate nine of 10 men who come into my office for help are also dealing with a low emotional IQ.