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Fear
How the fear mechanism works in a crisis, why fear grows when we follow the news, and what to actually do about it.
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Reflections and writings on attention, understanding, and experience.
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Emotions
Three ways to understand emotions and — accordingly, what to do with them.
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Research
Happiness in a U Shape
Have you ever wondered — how does happiness change as we grow older? Do we become happier, or — quite the opposite?
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Self-Control and Relationships
Self-control — the ability to not chase after urges, to not give in to temptations, is a valuable and developable quality. From the classic marshmallow experiment, through money management skills...
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Who exactly is Ansis? What is his experience and education?
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Tools We Don't Use
Do you have tools at home that you no longer use?
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Why Do People Shout?
When do people shout at each other? Why do people raise their voice?
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Articles In the Press
On Belief
Belief is an interesting word.
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Articles
On the Culture of Discussion
A few principles for better discussion
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Maturity
Maturity is the ability to cope with oneself.
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Hell in Relationships
"Hell is other people."
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Folklore
Chai Masala According to Mooji
One of my favorite drinks is chai masala — black tea with milk and spices. I have been making this tea for quite a while; this spring, when I was in India, I also enjoyed it at every opportunity.
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Articles Consciousness
Letting Go
Let go! — the phrase is said so often, and heard just as often. But how? How does one actually do it? Our mind is used to clinging to thoughts, memories, emotions. To people, situations, ideas....
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The Importance of Sleep
People have long known how important it is to sleep.
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Articles Science
The Story of 10 Billion
Sergei Kapitsa's last article — on the question he devoted the final twenty years of his life to: how many people live on Earth, why exactly that many, and what is happening to that number now. A retelling with translated quotes.
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In the Press
Emotional Hygiene
To reduce the risk of illness, everyone must observe hygiene. We wash our hands, brush our teeth, tidy up our clothes, home, and yard. Especially in spring, we organize clean-up events. It is equally important to care for...
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Why Are We in Relationships?
We are in relationships because we don't know ourselves. Only through relationships can we truly get to know who we are.
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Articles Science
Mindfulness and the Brain at the World Economic Forum in Davos
If the significance of an idea can be judged by the kind of people discussing it and the venue where they do so, then this morning in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, two of the world's leading researchers are talking about mindfulness and its impact on the brain...
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Seminars
Mindfulness: 8-Week Course
Over eight sessions, I will explore through the lens of mindfulness such topics as attitude, willpower, self-discipline, stress management, working with destructive emotions, mindfulness in communication, eating, movement, ...
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Psychotherapy In the Press
Freud on Psychotherapy and Medicine
Freud: (1926) No one has the right to practice analysis who has not acquired the right to do so through special training. The question of whether this person is or is not a physician is not essential.
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In the Press Politics
On the Incomprehensible
On psychotherapist Viesturs Rudzītis's interview, the culture of discussion, and how differing theoretical understandings create misunderstandings.
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Articles
Un-Mindfulness
Some people have asked me, why should one train mindfulness? What does it give? What is it needed for?
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Articles Psychotherapy
Five Steps to Change.
The process each of us goes through when making changes in our lives.
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Articles
For Men - How to Tell the Mother from the Woman.
For men: the women we meet in life can be the Woman, but can also be the Mother. The differences are significant.
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Articles Seminars
New Year's Resolutions Restart
Three weeks have passed since the new year began. Many people start each new year with new goals, with a resolution to start something this year, to accomplish something, to achieve...
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Seminars
Mindfulness Practice
An opportunity to gather on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings to practice mindfulness — to participate in a kind of 'morning spiritual exercise.'
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Articles
Tea Ceremony
Several people have asked me how it is possible to practice mindfulness in daily life? How to do it? - here is a description of a 10-minute mindful tea drinking ceremony.
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Articles
Relationships Are an Exchange.
We are in relationships because we are not self-sufficient, unable to satisfy all our needs on our own. We give and we receive.
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In the Press
Help During the Maxima Crisis
List of psychotherapists from the Latvian Association of Psychotherapists who are ready to provide free consultations to people affected by the Maxima tragedy
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Seminars
Mindfulness
Lecture times and locations
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Seminars
Attitude and Changing It
We hear such frequent sayings: 'Attitude determines everything,'
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Seminars
Willpower -- A Public Lecture in Two Parts
Willpower is a human quality that greatly helps in achieving one's goals. Willpower can be developed. Unfortunately, it often works contrary to logic. More about willpower - in the public lecture.
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Psychotherapy
English Speaking Psychotherapist
English speaking psychotherapist in Riga, Latvia. Certified by European Psychotherapy Association, Latvian Psychotherapists Association. Psychologist, supervisor.
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Articles Seminars
Happiness as a Skill
Modern brain research confirms millennia-old insights from spiritual practices that happiness is not a coincidence of external circumstances that can be achieved and obtained, but rather...
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Articles
A Man Loves a Woman
A man loves not the Woman herself, but rather his own state of being when he is beside her. That is why the 'Right Woman' is not necessarily the most beautiful, the most successful, the...
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What Happy Couples Do
I came across an older post about 10 habits characteristic of happy couples — things they do. I thought it was worth freely translating and sharing here...
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Letting Go of Attachment
One of the fundamental insights of Buddhism is that life is suffering and the cause of suffering is attachment. It is in human nature to become attached. We seek stability because uncertainty and unpredictability create anxiety in us....
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Psychotherapy
"Practicing Psychotherapy"
What do I understand by the words "practicing psychotherapy"?
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Psychotherapy
Existential Psychotherapy in Quotes
While preparing for seminars on existential psychotherapy and reading the literature, I have come across a great many beautiful quotes expressed in their works by existentially minded philosophers, psychotherapists, and psychologists.
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Articles
If You Want to Change the World -- Love a Woman...
If you want to change the world...
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Articles
How to Remember a Dream?
Many people say they do not dream, or do not remember their dreams. However, research confirms that the vast majority of people dream, only not everyone remembers their dreams. That is why here I will share a few things that...
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Articles
Some Insights About Life
At a Neale Donald Walsh seminar, I heard these 15 points — insights about life. Attitudes that usually, for most of us (at least for me), are the opposite of what is written here.
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Seminars
Seminar: Conversation with Dreams
Being in the darkness, you choose what is best in that situation,
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Folklore
Power Songs
During this solstice, while burning the Yule log in the bonfire, we sang this song. This year it sounded especially powerful. I could not find these words elsewhere on the internet, so I am recording them...
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Articles
Son, Do Not Sleep with the Heavenly Woman!
A certain father had a son — already a grown man, but one who had not yet started his own family.
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Seminars
Seminar: Feelings in Professional Relationships
When working with people - with clients, colleagues, superiors, subordinates - we are in relationships and therefore inevitably encounter feelings - both positive and, often, negative. It is possible...
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Politics Articles
Family - De Jure and De Facto
Twenty years ago, the words de jure and de facto were frequently used. Back then they referred to Latvia's statehood status, which was undergoing very rapid changes. Today I want to talk about family...
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In the Press Politics
Journalist Ethics and Responsibility
About journalist ethics, the credibility of information provided, and the responsibility of journalists themselves.
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In the Press Politics
What Does "Tough" Mean?
In my professional work, I have encountered many people who have chosen the word "tough" as their life motto. An attitude toward life called "tough" was...
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Politics
Coming Out
I have decided to run in the upcoming Saeima elections on October 2, 2010.
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Articles
The Forest Is My Meditation
People say the forest, dance, or gardening is their meditation. What actually distinguishes meditation from any other activity?
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In the Press
Ieva: How to Support a Man in Crisis?
Interview in Ieva magazine - interviewed by Agnese Meiere
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In the Press
Speed. CSDD Campaign to Reduce Driving Speed
Recently, at the invitation of the CSDD (Road Traffic Safety Directorate), I participated in a traffic safety campaign aimed at reducing the number of violations related to excessive speeding. As part of the collaboration, my role was to comment...
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Psychotherapy
Online Consultations
Consultations and psychotherapy in electronic form are also possible.
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Folklore
Fire Ritual at the Summer Solstice - Let It Be!
In the afternoon, but not too long before sunset - around
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Psychotherapy
Existential Psychotherapy
There is no single, simple and clear view in the world about what existential psychotherapy truly is. And it seems — that is very fitting for one of the fundamental ideas of existentialism...
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Psychotherapy
Neuro-Vegetative Therapy
This method has nothing to do with vegetarianism... :).
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Psychotherapy
Psycho-Organic Analysis
Psycho-Organic Analysis (POA) originated relatively recently — in the 1970s. Its founder is Paul Boyesen. The main driving force was to overcome the limitations...
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Psychotherapy In the Press
Psychotherapy Is Not What You Think!
When talking with clients about psychotherapy, the same questions often come up: what exactly is psychotherapy, what does a psychotherapist do, how does psychotherapy work? Usually the conversation partner has their own view, which unfortunately is often based on myths...
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Psychotherapy Research
The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy arrived in Latvia relatively recently - approximately 10 years ago. The first psychotherapists received their education with the help of foreign teachers...
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Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Approaches
One psychotherapy differs from another. There is no single, universal psychotherapy - many approaches or schools exist. Each of them has its own ideas about three things...
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Psychotherapy In the Press
Psychotherapy in Latvia
Interview published in the magazine Business Psychology, August-September 2008
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In the Press
About Men: 2
The Vicious Circle of Violence - an interview on the portal Politika.lv
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In the Press
About Men: 1
The Gentle One with Steel Eyes - an interview published in NRA.
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In the Press
About Money
The choice to be wealthy - an interview for the magazine Psiholoģijas Pasaule
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