Zen Psychiatry
By Elana Miller, MD
On the first evening of my recent 7-day silent meditation retreat, I had a strange dream.I was in my house, and it had flooded. As I walked through the rooms I waded in several feet of water. …
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"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day—unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour" – Zen saying At this moment I'm in Woodacre, California—a small town in Marin County, north …
Hello ladies and gentlemen.Today I'm going to do something I like to do from time to time here, but haven't done in a while.I'm going to get a little bit... motivational. I'm so pumped I …
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It seems to be trendy these days to say we're all overmedicated. People say we swallow a pill to try to escape any fleeting negative feeling, or that we throw them at our kids for any bad behavior. …
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Sometimes I'm surprised I wasn't born with gills.It's like I was meant to spend more time in water than on land. I didn't discover this until I was thirteen or so, when I started high school and …
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Recently, as part of my mindfulness practice, I decided to experiment with saying "yes" to everything.It was an exercise recommended specifically for the "aversive" Buddhist personality type, with …
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