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Posted by A.J. Mahari on April 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Medication for mental illness at the alarming rate it is being prescribed is nothing more than dangerous mind candy. Mind candy that cannot effectively address most challenges in mental illness. If one pathologizes mental illness in the narrow and rigid ways of psychiatry and its pseudo-science then one might want to fall in line with the illusion that pills are the long-sought after cure-all. However, they are not any cure-all whatsoever.
Filed under Mental Health · Tagged with a psychiatric revolution, Andrew Scull, are drugs the holy grail of psychiatry, biology and human traits, Borderline Personality Disorder, Buddhism and psychology, C. Peter Bankart, Daseinsanalytic Psychotherapy, Dr. Andrew Scull, dukka, emotional suffering, G. Rita Dudley-Grant, hope for recovery from mental illness, is mental illness a brain disorder, Kathleen H. Dockett, Life Coach A.J. Mahari, Mental Illness, mindfulness, neurobiology versus psychology, pharma, pharma tainted biopsychiatry, philosophy and psychiatry, psychobabble to biobabble, Psychology, Psychology and Buddhism From Individual to Global Community, psychotherapy, recovery, Self Help, treatment choices, what every mental health consumer needs to know about psychiatry
Posted by A.J. Mahari on November 23, 2009 · 2 Comments
Grief is what it is. Grief is a part of life. Grief is a process that unfolds whenever we suffer, experience, or feel loss. Some reasons for grief are obvious – the death of a loved one, loss of a job or relationship, for example. Reasons for grief can be subtle – unfinished emotional baggage from childhood interfering with goal identification and achievement in the here and now, for example. Life Coach, A.J. Mahari outlines 7 keys that help the grief process and 7 keys that hinder the process of grieving.
Filed under Culture, Mental Health, Self Help, Self Improvement · Tagged with 7 keys that help grieving, 7 keys that hinder grieving, aj mahari, coping and gaining perspective about grief, feeling emotions, grief, grieving mindfully, healing, job loss, loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, pet loss, radical acceptance, recovery, relationship breakups, Self Help, Self Improvement
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Bernie Siegel, MD Author of “Buddy’s Candle” writes, Many years ago my great grandfather told me of the persecution he experienced in Russia which led him to come to this country. He said the Cossacks would pursue him at night, when he was out teaching, and slash him with their sabers. One night he was on the hill above his village with his rabbi, the Baal Shem Tov. As they looked down they could see the Cossacks riding down and killing their Jewish brethren.They might have felt the same had they seen their loved ones being taken away to become slaves in a foreign land.
Filed under Books, Health · Tagged with beginnings and endings, Bernie Siegel MD, Buddy's Candle, compassion, Dialectic Magazine, disease, dying, emotional pain, enlightenment, faith, FBA associates, God, healing, Health, illness, kindness, learn lessons, love, mindfulness, mortality, physical pain, radical acceptance, spiritual pain, spirituality, suffering, teach others, tolerance, understand why
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
What is on your mind, that is to say, what you focus on, is what will shape and justify your experience of yourself, of others, and of life.
More people are becoming increasingly aware that how and what they think creates their experience. However, for many who are in great emotional pain the connection might not be so apparent. For those with a personality disorder, or other form of mental illness, it can be much more difficult to make the connection between patterns of thought and their correlation to experience.
Filed under Mental Health, Self Help · Tagged with aj mahari life coach, cause and effect, change, consequences of negative attitude, Dialectic Magazine, healing, importance of a positive attitude, mindfulness, Personal Growth, personal philosophy, recovery, self help psychology, suffering is a choice, thinking, thinking and experience, thoughts and experience
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Welcome to Dialectic Magazine. This is a new online magazine that will have a wide ranging focus on the endless interaction of conflicting ideas that make up the rich paradoxical nature of experience.
There are many types of paradox. In and through each and every paradox what is being sought after, found, processed, or realized is some measure of what is true. The more we can bring an awareness of what is true in our lives, what is authentic, the more we can enrich our intellectual, psychological, and spiritual experience of the here and now.
Articles, essays, interviews, poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction will provide an eclectic blend of information, food for thought, and entertainment.
As Sir Frances Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”.
Filed under DM · Tagged with Dialectic Magazine, life coaching, Mental Health, mindfulness, Paradox in life and culture, Personal Growth, philosophy, politics, pop culture, radical acceptance, religion, self development, technology, wellness, yin yang
