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Dr Raphael Gunner: April 2008
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Monday, April 21, 2008. The Psychology of Yoga and the Yoga of Psychology. The following essay first appeared as an article in the March/April 2008 issue of. The Los Angeles Psychologist. The challenge for me is how to be present. To my sensations, my feelings, my thoughts, and my actions. It's an awful lot to ask and very hard to achieve. But yoga has helped by providing a method. Its has given me a safe space in which to practice showing up. And that's how...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: November 2007
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Saturday, November 24, 2007. You Are Not Your Yoga Posture. Years ago I was living with a jewelry designer who noticed the intensity that I brought to my yoga practice. In particular I was struggling with a posture called. Is noose pose. There's no more to say. You get the idea. Because what's at stake is your lovability. Feeling special enough for others to love. When value is about achievement, and achievement is about winning, the only way to feel...Moreo...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: January 2008
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Monday, January 21, 2008. The Meaning of Love: Acceptance, Empathy, and Compassion. Dead Man Walking,. Something changed in me when I saw. I saw that it's possible to love another person even if you don't like the terrible things they do. Before I saw the movie I thought you earned love. Afterwards, I realized that love is a birthright. When I think about why I love my patients this way, I realize it's because this is how my therapist loved me. She accep...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: February 2008
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Thursday, February 7, 2008. The Hard Work of Love. In my first semester of grad school in English literature at Harvard I enrolled in a seminar in Renaissance poetry. My professor was an elegant man in his 60s known for his vocabulary, intelligence, and wit. The class had two requirements, a book report and a paper. He delivered his evaluations of each student before the class. Loving my professor means accepting him completely, empathizing with his pain, an...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: Choice and Necessity in Life Truly Lived
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Friday, March 28, 2008. Choice and Necessity in Life Truly Lived. This was a transformative moment for me. I recognized that I had a choice in my career. I didn't have to follow the plot I was given. Or even the one I wrote for myself. I got to change the narrative whenever I wanted. As long as I was ready to handle the fallout. April 5, 2008 at 5:49 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click Photo to Go To My Web Site. View my complete profile.
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Dr Raphael Gunner: July 2007
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Wednesday, July 25, 2007. No Pain, No Gain? No Gain With Pain! We Americans are very good at distrusting our bodies. The Puritans treated the body as an instrument of temptation. Trust your body and you risk burning for Gluttony, Lust, and Sloth. Deny your body and you find salvation through Abstinence, Chastity, and Diligence. Yoga offers an alternative approach to the body by teaching us. In teaching us to distinguish between pain and sensation, yoga enabl...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: From Loving Perfection to Perfecting Love: A Matter of Acceptance
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Friday, March 7, 2008. From Loving Perfection to Perfecting Love: A Matter of Acceptance. Should I compare it to a model's? Needless to say, I made a mess of the moment. Only now do I understand what she was asking. I recently took a course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction ( MBSR. A secular approach to Buddhist meditation based on the work of Jon Kabat. The conventional meaning of perfect is "without flaw or blemish." It derives from the Latin. But the ...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: The Hard Work of Love
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Thursday, February 7, 2008. The Hard Work of Love. In my first semester of grad school in English literature at Harvard I enrolled in a seminar in Renaissance poetry. My professor was an elegant man in his 60s known for his vocabulary, intelligence, and wit. The class had two requirements, a book report and a paper. He delivered his evaluations of each student before the class. Loving my professor means accepting him completely, empathizing with his pain, an...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: September 2007
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Sunday, September 23, 2007. Corporate Culture and the Rules of the Game. Unfortunately, I have also had adventures in working. Some in "real" jobs in education, entertainment, and real estate and some in temp jobs in law, medicine, energy, and film. Some of these jobs were more adventurous than others, but none was exactly the same as any other. So, how do you figure out what the rules are? Links to this post. Saturday, September 15, 2007. And burst into tea...
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Dr Raphael Gunner: June 2008
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Thoughts on psychotherapy, business, and yoga. Sunday, June 1, 2008. Every Sunday morning I have breakfast with a friend. I first met this friend when I was 19. We generally talk about the challenges of being human. We implicitly look to each other for help. Soon after this experience I came to understand that I now had a new definition of a friend - someone who stands by you whatever you feel. The paradox in my case was that I'd been feeling alone. And while I was feeling alone my friend was wit...Event...