Los Angeles Psychotherapist specializing in Spiritual Psychology and Transpersonal Counseling

Archive for July, 2008

The Seven Principles for Making Relationships Work

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (Crown, 1999) is a book that I often recommend for people who are wishing to improve their relationships, married or otherwise. The author, Dr. John Gottman, actually hooked couples up to electrodes and watched what happened to their blood pressures and heart rates while they talked to each [...]

THE ROOTS OF TANTRA, PART TWO

Great psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich pointed out that the majority of people are starved for sexual fulfillment; causing all kinds of ills such as child abuse, rape, frigidity, compulsive sexuality, and obsessions of all sorts. This starvation, however, is not from lack of opportunity as it was in the past. The [...]

Novice Blogger

This is fun not knowing what I’m doing — I guess it’s learn as you go. A wonderful person from Facebook, Rheyanna Arliss, is coaching me on social networking, blogging, Web 2.0, etc. You ought to know her if you don’t already. Check out her site Social Synergy at http://www.rheyannaarliss.blogspot.com/ My thought is to post [...]

THE ROOTS OF TANTRA, PART ONE

When you trace it all back there are only two paths, tantra and yoga. All traditions stem from one or the other root. The paths stemming from yoga are those that teach there is something to do to arrive at ultimate fulfillment. The seeker needs to learn to restrain the passions, discipline the body and [...]