Dr. Regina's Healing & Psychotherapy Blog

Choose the glasses you'll wear in 2012: change your perspective, change your life!

You start your walk on tiptoes-                                                               

Heartbreak happens; relationships end, people disappoint us, we fall short of a meaningful goal or we receive a terrifying diagnosis like cancer. When heartbreak happens, we should acknowledge the hurt, the fear and the anger. We should allow these feelings to flow up, through and out of our body. There is no healthy way around this piece; feeling is a must. And after this, we should choose an attitude and take advantage of what heartbreak can provide - focused desire.

1. Understand what mindfulness meditation is not. 

If you do one thing for yourself today, I highly suggest reading this blog: ZENHABITS.

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” ~ Buddha

"Some people are prone to react in a more intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward certain emotional situations, primarily those found in romantic, family and friend relationships. DBT theory suggests that some people’s arousal levels in such situations can increase far more quickly than the average person’s, attain a higher level of emotional stimulation, and take a significant amount of time to return to baseline arousal levels". ~Psych Central

I shared this myth a couple of years ago on Valentine's Day and people seemed to dig it, so I will tell it again this Valentine's Day, but a bit differently, as I have different thoughts about it this time around. Myth's tend to evolve with the reader; the story may mean different things at different times and different things to different people. Jungian analysts and Depth Psychologists love to use myths tools in psychoanalysis. Joseph Campbell is also famous for his work with myths and specifically the hero's journey.

"You never knew who was going to open the door when you knocked"