Morita Therapy

Sometimes listening to a blissful piece of music needs to be done. Other times, walking needs to be done. The stimulus of the city can provide a necessary state of connection and so can basking in the moonlight in a silent place. The silence may bubble over with the communion of the night-insects. What do [...]

Carl Rogers: The Good Life (a condensation)

I’ve been obsessing over Carl Rogers these days and would like to briefly outline techniques for enacting and engaging in “the good life” as drawn out in his piece “A Therapist’s View of the Good Life.”
THE GOOD LIFE: A Process
1. An Increasing Openness to Experience: Your armor has disintegrated and you are more at [...]

Constructive Living as Lifehack Strategy

“Constructive Living” is the result of two Japanese systems of thought (ways of living) as synthesized by Dr. David K. Reynolds. The two systems used are “Morita therapy” and “Naikan.”
“Morita Therapy” is a realistic action-oriented approach to daily life; “doing what needs to be done” and “holding to one’s purpose.” For example, If the [...]

To Be That Self Which One Truly Is: Carl Rogers

“To Be That Self Which One Truly Is” is published in Carl Rogers’s book “On Becoming a Person.”
In this essay he provides guidance for opening oneself up to the process-nature of one’s self while relating it to the question: “What are my goals in life?” That is, how are we to realize these goals? [...]

Person as a Fluid Process (Spending Time with Carl R. Rogers Part 2)

Image via WikipediaYesterday, I had the pleasure of reading Carl R. Rogers’s essay “What it Means to Become a Person” from his book “On Becoming a Person.” In this essay, Rogers discusses the idea of “false faces” and “pure culture” while opening up what he calls the “fluid process” experience of personhood. As with my [...]