Therapy Group: Quezon City Growth and Recovery Enhancement for Anxious Thinkers (GREAT)

[nbtac41]

im willing to attend,cooperate and support for february's session.

[deezy]

can you post more info about the session. is there a fee or something?

[michimac03]

hello, im in..im so willing to join february's session!very ineterested for i really need to attend a support group!

[chevlenz]

Originally Posted by deezy

can you post more info about the session. is there a fee or something?

each participant contributes an amount to the therapist-facilitator as donation for maintenance costs.

[humhummeow]

Sana meron din tayong GAD forum dito

[chevlenz]

i am still waiting a word from doc randy's secretary on his availability for a group session on a february weekend. just in case hindi available si doc, we will stick to the march 3 schedule.

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, everyone!

[chevlenz]

Doc Randy's schedule is full in february. awaiting confirmation for the march 3 schedule.

[michimac03]

Originally Posted by chevlenz

Doc Randy's schedule is full in february. awaiting confirmation for the march 3 schedule.

any news on march 3 retreat?

[chevlenz]

Originally Posted by michimac03

any news on march 3 retreat?

sorry guys, hindi available si doc on march 3. please wait for further announcement. but we can already add you to the group's page at fb if you are interested.

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"See yourself opening doors to joy, peace, healing, prosperity, and love. Doors to understanding, compassion, and forgiveness. Doors to freedom. Doors to self-worth and self-esteem. Doors to self-love. It is all here before you. Which door will you open first?" - Louise L. Hay

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Sino yung me sabi na walang pangit na me SAD? Hmm...mukhang korek ka dyan! It's more fun at GREAT!

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THERAPIES AND ACTIONS THAT MAY CALM SYMPTOMS OF TRAUMA
Mindfulness and Mindfulness Meditation ~ Where Science and Buddhism meet ~ have ...been proven to assist in the management of both acute and chronic pain conditions.
By its very nature, the practice of meditation itself reveals the in-built potential for pain relief, for it is not uncommon to experience pain, both physical and emotional, when engaged for long periods of time in what may be described as “intensive meditation”.

For example, there is or may be a certain amount of pain associated with sitting in a fixed position for a fairly long period of time, especially if one is sitting in a cross-legged, half-lotus or full-lotus position.

Any experienced meditator knows that the experience of pain is an opportunity to bring one’s awareness - bare attention, and detached observation - to the pain sensations … that is, to apply the practice of mindfulness itself to the sensations of pain.

When we observe, in a detached but otherwise focused way, the sensations of pain, what do we experience? Well, for starters, we begin to see that the primary sensations of pain are not immutable but rather are constantly changing in intensity from moment to moment and mindfulness means living in the moment, from one moment to the next. If we move one step further - still working with the insight already gained from observation – we begin to appreciate that the sensations of pain are entirely separate from the psychological interpretations that we may commonly attribute to them.

Over time, with practice - for that is what it is … practice - Mindfulness Meditation enables us to develop the ability to dwell in a supramundane - I didn’t say supernatural - state of heightened but otherwise bare awareness to bodily sensations, without going to the unnecessary, and self-destructive, path of engaging in constant psychological interpretations of our sensations of pain. All the latter does is lead to suffering. Mindfulness enables us to investigate the process of “pain”, the latter being only a mass of sensations, and not a “thing-in-itself”. We can then learn to discern between "pain" and "suffering”.

Several important reported studies have shown that Mindfulness Meditation can greatly assist in cultivating a state of “detached observation” during the perception of pain.

Other clinical studies have shown that regular meditation practice results in thicker brain tissue in two regions of the human brain, namely the “insula” and the “prefrontal cortex”.


By: Ptsd Support and Global Awareness

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Conquer your fear. Try Asia's longest dual zip line! — at Dahilayan Adventure Park, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, Philippines

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Bishop: Palm Sunday no April Fool’s joke
Roman Catholic Filipinos should mark Palm Sunday, with piety and contemplation on the Passion of Jesus Christ and not with superstitious beliefs, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Saturday.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/170201/...ril-fools-joke


STRICTLY SYMBOLIC. Palm fronds (“palaspas”) decorate Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City for blessing on Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. The Church says Filipinos should give the palaspas no other meaning than a symbol of welcome at the triumphant entry of Jesus to Jerusalem. It’s plain superstitious to use a blessed palm to ward off evil spirits or as protection against lightning and other disasters. RAFFY LERMA

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[IGdwight]

How about from Cebu, Visayas?

[flyturtle]

hi, I'm a new member here, ngayon ko lang nabasa itong thread na 'to. Is this still on going? I'm willing to join

[flyturtle]

if still on going, pano po mag join?