Working with Negative Emotions through Mindfulness Meditation
Dr Itai Ivtzan When I teach the topic of emotions and meditation I discuss the fact that meditation is very helpful when it comes to engaging with negative emotions. These emotions are a natural part of our human experience: waves of sadness, pain, jealousy, and anger are there to remind us that we are alive, […]
The Impact of Body Awareness on Subjective Wellbeing
Brani, O., Hefferon, K., Lomas, T., Ivtzan, I., & Painter, J. (2014). The Impact of Body Awareness on Subjective Wellbeing: The Role of Mindfulness. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 13(1), 95-107. Error: Embedded data could not be displayed. The Impact of Body Awareness is essential for creating and maintaining healthy, productive societies.
Gaining Control over Your Awareness
Dr Itai Ivtzan This post is to help you to Gaining Control about your emotional awareness, giving you strategies to regulate your emotions, and show you how to ultimately use this emotional control to your advantage. I invite you for a little experiment: choose an object in your immediate environment, such as a cup of […]
The Relationship between Materialistic Aspirations and Distinct Aspects of Psychological Well-being in a UK sample
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Tarot cards: a literature review and evaluation of psychic versus psychological explanations
Ivtzan, I. (2007). Tarot cards: a literature review and evaluation of psychic versus psychological explanations. Journal of Parapsychology, 71, 139-150. Error: Embedded data could not be displayed.
Benefits of Meditation
Dr Itai Ivtzan Over the past three decades, a radical and extremely interesting change has occurred in the way people in the West regard meditation. Until the 1980’s, the term “meditator” brought to mind a guy in an orange robe, with a long, white, messy beard, sitting alone on top of a mountain. Nowadays, future […]
Responsibility vs. Blame
Itai Ivtzan Blame is the opposite of responsibility; it is attributing your misfortune to something or someone else to avoid taking responsibility for your actions. In one of my former articles I wrote about having a choice. Having a choice means that you recognise your own responsibility. Realising that your relationship with the moment stems […]
The impact of mindfulness on well being and performance in the workplace
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Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing
Lomas, T. & Ivtzan, I. (in press) ‘Second Wave Positive Psychology: Exploring the Positive–Negative Dialectics of Wellbeing’, Journal of Happiness Studies. Error: Embedded data could not be displayed. This is an essential approach about Second Wave Positive Psychology experience.
Professionalising positive psychology: Developing guidelines for training and regulation
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