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Bessel van der Kolk
4 essays feature or mention Bessel van der Kolk, newest first.
Why Old Pain Keeps Coming Back: The Pain-Body
Someone says one small thing and you go up like dry paper. We follow Tolle's pain-body through one whole round while Griff snaps at a friend over a loose chair joint. Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Bessel van der Kolk, Joe Dispenza and Brené Brown add their views along the way, and the post ends on what to do the next time the heat rises.
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The Power of Focus: Why Attention Shapes Your Life
Charles Haanel and Robert Collier both compared the mind to a magnifying glass. Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, Joe Dispenza, Abraham-Hicks and Marcus Aurelius describe what happens when you hold it still. Three directions to point your attention, what the research does and doesn't support, and three practices to start this week.
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Neville Goddard Said You Can Rewrite Your Past. Here's Where That Claim Breaks.
We take Neville Goddard's strangest technique, Revision, and hold it against David Chalmers' philosophy of mind, memory neuroscience and a forgotten 1970s experiment, to find the point where "rewrite your past" stops being a metaphor.
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Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
A mystic, a neuroscientist, a trauma doctor and a psychiatrist arrive at the same answer. The "feel it real" instruction assumes a working felt sense, and nobody checked whether yours was online.
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