Below I have summarized five suggestions to help clients move more mindfully through the divorce process: Settle In contemporary American society, most of us are highly conditioned to avoid or turn away from difficult experiences, emotions, etc. The fracturing of a family unit or severance of a
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Pervasive conditioning from early development commonly instills a belief in the need to maintain a clearly identified direction in which our lives are headed. The thought or concept of “not knowing” is simply not looked upon favorably in schools, the workplace, or families of origin. Most of
Read more →Much of suffering can be tied to some deeply conditioned notion that we have some fundamental baseline of “happiness.” When some event, stimuli, or phenomenon is interpreted as “bad,” “unpleasant,” or “painful,” we almost instinctively engage strategies to obtain something we interpret as “good,” “pleasant,” or “pleasurable,”
Read more →As has been explored throughout the Holistic Law Blog for several years, holistic law practice springs from the premise that legal “problems” frequently provide opportunities for transformational growth. Most of us value stability and security to the point at which we will resist change unless and until
Read more →Traditional law practice overlooks unique opportunities for clients to truly improve their lives and the lives of those around them. The narrow focus of traditional law practice fixates on objective facts to the virtual exclusion of ways in which the parties, and others impacted by conflict, relate to
Read more →One of the basic tenets of Buddhist psychology can be distilled down to a single basic teaching: That which we frequently ponder and think about becomes the inclination of the mind. Many life situations that people would term “legal problems” involve some recognizable loss or threat of
Read more →In the current U.S. election, Donald J. Trump has campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again.” The policies espoused by Mr. Trump as a roadmap to this “greatness” largely pit one faction against another, implying that his vision of “greatness” is necessarily dependent on the exclusion
Read more →Mindfulness in general, and meditation practice in particular, serves to more firmly ground one in present-moment experience apart from thought-driven notions of how things need to be different than how they are in order to be “happy.” It is the very thought that things can be any
Read more →Mindfulness is especially valuable in conflict situations, or other situations that present challenges to central components of one’s perceived safety, self-concept, etc. One recent study by Natalia Karelaia, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD in France, suggests four central ways in which mindfulness can foster improved
Read more →The mind seems to incessantly scan the environment for problems to solve. This active intellectual engagement with our environment likely served to ensure our survival as a species over millions of years as immediate physical dangers routinely confronted us in more primitive times. The mind seeks problems
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