Criterion velocity and samadhi
We navigate the present moment through our accumulated learning, habits, intentions, and evolutionary drives responding to other people and the world.
How Self-Love Progresses Through the Life Span
One of my favorite definitions of love is to be at-one-with. Developmentally, when it comes to self-love, we progress through stages.
Fighting and Friending our Way Forward
All living processes exist in a rhythm of opposing forces which create conflict, resolving into either cooperation or domination. This dynamic of tension is the subtext of most human activity.
Invisible Audiences
We feel observed all the time. We feel observed by our conscious selves and our inner critics. We feel observed by others–by our real and imagined tribes, by the people we pass on the street—because we are tribal beings, evolved to need each other.
Your best self — your wisest and most compassionate self — exists right now in you
You may be embodying your wisest self as you read this. Your wisest self is a fundamental part of you that wants to choose goodness, love, courage, and commitment to people and goals. Our wisest self is our best interior guide to the universe of relationships.
How to Regulate Anxiety – On The Shrink & The Pundit
anx·i·e·ty (aNGˈzīədē/) noun 1. A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. The ability to remember the past and to …
WHAT DEPRESSION IS TRYING TO TELL US – An Integral Conversation with Jeff Salzman [AUDIO]
On this episode of The Shrink & The Pundit, Jeff and Dr. Keith talk about one of the oldest and most dreaded of human afflictions, depression. They consider not just the suffering, but also the wisdom and growth potential that depression offers. They look at the qualities of modernity that magnify the condition, the mixed blessing of pharmaceuticals and neuroscience, and how depression is experienced and best treated at different stages in the developmental journey.
Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Stupidity – Therapist in the Wild [VIDEO]
This week the Therapist in the Wild opines on emotional stupidity and emotional intelligence–two states we each inhabit every day.
Who’s Driving the Bus? – Therapist in the Wild [VIDEO]
In this episode of Therapist in the Wild, Dr. Keith Witt points out that we are all many people throughout the course of our lives. Sometimes, we’re happy, sometimes we’re sad, angry. Sometimes, we’re compassionate, sometimes we’re selfish, and so on.