This is a continuation of the previous article on Intelligent Emotions. In it, I briefly outline the core ideas from David Viscott’s book The Language of Feelings about the crucial importance of being in contact with our emotions and being able to express them in an appropriate way. According to Viscott, if you want to […]
The theory of emotional intelligence is relatively new—the model was first proposed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990, defining EI as the ability to accurately perceive, understand, and manage emotions. When this skill is manifested in an interpersonal context, it leads to greater understanding with others, a capacity for empathy, influence, and leadership. […]
Burnout is a form of occupational stress expressed through extreme exhaustion and alienation from work and from people. If at the beginning a person was inspired and burned brightly in their work, now we observe the exact opposite — the flame has gone out, and in place of inspiration there is fatigue, apathy, pessimism, and […]
“Care of the Soul” is the title of a book by Thomas Moore in which he presents his vision of a new kind of psychotherapy—one in which psychology and spirituality are reunited into a living whole. The core idea of the book is that there is a difference between(1) healing the soul and (2) caring […]
Why in systemic psychotherapy there are no “ill individuals,” but ill relationships There is one school in psychotherapy that I have not written about in my blog so far, yet one to which I owe an enormous amount – systemic psychotherapy. When I first encountered it, I was deeply impressed by its paradigm for understanding […]
I learned this fact about frogs’ behavior from a seminar by Anastasia Markova (Asya) titled “Depression and the Work Environment,” which I recently organized. With some embarrassment, Asya shared this example with us, explaining that she knew of no better illustration of the elusive and gradual process of burnout at work – the kind of […]
Once, a man was walking near a cliff and fell. As he was falling, he managed to grab onto the branch of a small tree growing out of a crack in the rock. Hanging from the branch, shaken by the cold wind, the man realized the full hopelessness of his situation: below him were river […]
This is something by Osho that is closely related to the previous article on the dark night of the soul. Question to Osho: I feel that I do not allow my heart to open. When I was very young, I rejected my parents. I felt good being a little bad boy. Now I realize that […]
What is diagnosed in clinical psychology as endogenous depression (major depressive disorder) is known in the spiritual tradition as the “dark night of the soul.” This is especially important for people who suffer from deep depressive states without any apparent external cause. In fact, this knowledge itself is the best support for coping with this […]
Recently, I heard myself telling a client that I am “like this” because I have been touched by death. And I realized that this expression describes, better than anything else, what matters most to me. When I was seventeen, my mother died. But even before that happened, I lived constantly with the fear of death, […]
on good, evil, and the divine role of not-knowing This is a quotation from Pamela Kribbe’s book The Jeshua Channelings, which is very important to me. Below, I explain why. “In order to bring about change, to create the possibility for movement and expansion, God had to introduce into His creation an Element that differed […]
In perfect accordance with the principle of synchronicity, a friend recently sent me a TED video—a presentation by Brené Brown. Those who have read my previous post about “The Way Forward and the Way Back“ will easily recognize in her talk a clear example of how “The Turn” happens—and what transformation looks like once we […]
