Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind

WHEN SURVIVING SEEMS TO TAKE PRECEDENCE
OVER THRIVING

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist

Last month I wrote about thriving as a goal—not mere surviving.
Life, it seems, has a way of influencing our agendas and the phase we seem to be in currently—individually and collectively—seems to have surviving being in the driver’s seat.
Pick your poison: Covid-19, Climate Change, economic devastation and on and on. Continue reading “Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind”

Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind

Training the Mind to react with Love and
make proper Decisions

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist

To all Addicts: yes, that means you.

Unless you are not human—and I have my suspicions about a few politicians—this article is addressed to you.

Shree Vasant famously said that all humans are addicts. The brilliant intuitive healer, Carolyn Myss, says the same thing. Continue reading “Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind”

Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind

Training the Mind to react with Love and
make proper Decisions

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist

HOMA PSYCHOTHERAPY:
THE FIVEFOLD PATH OF VEDAS AS OUR WAY OUT AND IN

The Coronavirus is trying to teach all of us many lessons. One of them is especially applicable to India—a mecca of spirituality facing especial challenges today with respect to material and physical issues.

Vedic Culture provides simple—though not easy—solutions.

The Fivefold Path of Vedas—Yajnya, Daan, Tapa, Karma and Swadhyaya—has never before been brought into such clear focus as now. Continue reading “Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind”

Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind

Training the Mind to react with Love and
make proper Decisions

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist

HOMA PSYCHOTHERAPY: Steps 4 & 5, as promised

Were we to take a deep breath and assess where we as a planet are today, some prominent points stick out:


1. Taking a deep breath is easier said than done by millions of us. Covid-19 prevents many from taking deep breaths and, most sadly, more than 800,000 will never breath again.

2. There are two major forces in play:
A) the virus itself
B) human behaviour (misbehaviour) leading directly to the inability for many places to contain the disease, and, in fact, accelerating its spread. Continue reading “Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind”

Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind

Training the Mind to react with Love and
make proper Decisions

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist

Though I intended to have this article be a continuation of the discussion of Fivefold Path, I have decided that the situation we all face with the pandemic makes it more important to discuss some issues related to this.
I shall return to the intended agenda in the near future.


SUPPORTING FARMERS’ PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
 WITH AGNIHOTRA

Have you heard the joke about how our governments are meant to protect us in times of crisis—be it COVID-19 or CLIMATE CHANGE?

Dream on, fellow seekers and wannabe survivors.

THIS IS NOT A TEST. This is not a movie. All the woods, be they Hollywood, Bollywood or Nollywood are as clueless as our “leaders.” The fiction would be too strange to be thought of as fact. Continue reading “Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind”

Homa Psychotherapy: Training the Mind


Training the Mind to react with Love and
make proper Decisions

By Barry Rathner, Clinical Psychologist


This is the first article of a planned series of regular pieces on HOMA PSYCHOTHERAPY, which is a focus of Homa Therapy on aspects of the mind and issues of human behaviour.
Future entries may be geared to those of us in the helping professions, that is, how to ‘practice’ Homa Psychotherapy or employ its principles into whatever form of helping we engage in.

This first article will begin with practical actions and solutions and less with theory. And we might think of it as information intended for all of us—healer or patient. This is because of the dangerous and challenging barriers that confront us all in this Corona Age.
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