Emotions in Harmony

Fear is an emotion that every human being has felt. Physiological and normal reactions of fear include: increased heartbeat, sweaty hands, greater than normal energy load, insomnia, etc.

In this episode Dr. Carmen Roman helps us to understand our fears at a deeper level so we can learn from them and, of course, face them with greater success.

In this episode you will learn:

• Common Reactions to fear.
• Examples of what is a normal fear vs clinical fear
• When and how your fear turns into a phobia or trauma
• Some tips about how to face our fears
• The importance of seeking help that matches our needs
• Some reflections about preventing unnecessary fears you may develop

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La diferencia entre la tristeza normal y la depresión clínica a veces es cuestión de tiempo y falta de atención.

En este episodio la Dra. Carmen Román discute las diferencias entre tristeza y depresión dándonos consejos que previenen nuestra tristeza se convierta en un problema psicológico y nos da esperanza de poder recuperarnos aun en las peores depresiones.

La tristeza es una emoción normal y muy humana. Sin embargo, la tristeza que no se llora se encona según la Dra. Carmen y hay formas sencillas que previenen este resultado.

En este episodio aprenderás:

• Eventos que provocan tristeza.

• Cuando la tristeza que se disfraza de otras emociones y cuales son.

• Síntomas normales de la tristeza.

• Como saber cuándo vas en camino a una recuperación natural de la tristeza.

• Cuando se llama depresión clínica y cuáles son los síntomas.

• Que es el nihilismo y como podría complicar la depresión.

• Que podrías hacer para avanzar de manera natural la tristeza.

• Cuáles opciones tratamientos hay para la depresión.

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In this episode Dr. Carmen Roman talks to the teens who are graduating this year! She shares an inspiring and insightful message to those who graduated from elementary, middle or high school.

This message is an excellent resource if want to revisit that adventurous and invincible spirit we all have during our teen years. If you are a parent, it may give you some ideas to talk to your kids about success and failure.

In this episode you will learn:

• Gratitude message for graduates

• Dr. Carmen's wish list for graduates

• Dr. Carmen's lessons learned ever since she graduated elementary school

• Dr. Carmen's suggestions for a better experience in your professional life.

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Doing the first phone call can be scary and overwhelming.

In this episode, Dr. Steven Curley, interviewed by Dr. Carmen, will help you to prepare for this process of choosing the person who is going to help you in the most important journey towards your emotional harmony.

You will learn:

· What feeling you are looking for when choosing the right therapist

· What is a good place to start your search

· The importance of defining the specialty you need

· What characteristics in the therapist will suit you the best

· What websites will be the best to look for a therapist

· What questions to ask to your friends and people around you

· What questions to ask during your first phone call

· How to talk about your payment and fees during your first phone call

· How to discover when you chose the incorrect one and why you may need to change

Websites to find a therapist:

https://www.psychologytoday.com

https://www.networktherapy.com

http://www.goodtherapy.org

The board of psychology of your state will have information for consumers (for California click here)

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Fomentar nuestra ecuanimidad nos ayuda a tomar decisiones con sabiduría y creatividad. El meditar y practicar Kundalini Yoga aumenta nuestra salud física y mental.

En este episodio la Dra. Carmen entrevista a la maestra Maria Sat Prakash quien nos cuenta que es y como se refleja la energía Kundalini en nuestro cuerpo y como afecta nuestra vida emocional.

En este capítulo aprenderás:

• Que es el Kundalini Yoga

• El proyecto para mujeres que va a ofrecer la maestra Maria

• Cuál es el miedo a vencer para asistir a una clase de Kundalini Yoga

• Los patrones que creamos cuando estamos en conmoción

• Los problemas de vivir en una forma automática

• La importancia de vivir de manera consciente

• Que es y donde está la energía Kundalini en nuestro cuerpo

• Como actúa la energía Kundalini en nuestro cuerpo

• Cuáles son los tipos de cuerpos que tenemos

• Los tipos de mentes según la filosofía Kundalini

• Los beneficios de practicar Kundalini Yoga

• Los resultados de identificarte con las emociones y con los pensamientos.

• La meditación y la respiración pranayama y sus efectos en la ansiedad o miedos

• Que es la práctica de la meditación Vipassana

La página de la Maestra Maria Sat Prakash:

https://www.nictehaflordeloto.com

Otras páginas y recursos que recomienda:

http://www.spiritvoyage.com

https://www.gaia.com

Meditación Vipassana https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Ramiro Calle en YouTUbe https://youtu.be/NTv3ULwfnAY

Libros recomendados por la Maestra Maria Sat:

The master's touch por Yogi Bhajan, PhD

The yoga of the nine emotions por Peter Marchand

Breaking the death habit por Leonard Orr

Página del podcast: https://emotionsinharmony.com

In this episode, Carmen interviews Dr. Steven Curley. Dr. Steven is Carmen's Aikido Sensei. He has been practicing Aikido for 19 years and teaching for 9. He appreciates that Aikido is a spiritual path as well as a martial art. Dr. Steven is also a licensed psychologist who does Jungian and psychodynamic work in his private practice in Mountain View, California. He focuses mainly on growth with his clients, and highly values the process of in person therapy. He is here to share his wisdom about emotions, relationships, seeking help, and overcoming resistance. Please enjoy this episode of Emotions in Harmony.

What you will learn:

• What Aikido is and some of the philosophy behind the practice

• Dr. Steven's favorite quotes: "Emotions are the weather of the soul." From Tibetan Buddhism, and "When angry, count to ten. When very angry, swear." by Mark Twain

• Why it's a mistake to take our emotions personally

• The importance of being kind to yourself, because you're not always going to get it right.

• How self-compassion helps in healing the emotions and seeing the bigger picture

• The value in starting with what's in front of you and having some success with the less scary things before moving onto the scarier stuff down the track.

• That it takes guts to go to therapy, but you're not the first person to experience the fear • Why you don't have to be perfect, you just must have the desire to begin.

• What aikido can teach us about how to fall, literally and metaphorically

• Why taking away the fear isn't the point, and why you should do some other less scary things and then come back and address that bigger fear

• How we can get trapped by not letting go of the emotion once it has served its purpose and mobilized use or given us a message

• That you should check in with your gut and ask, 'what is true here?'

• How we have been conditioned to think we need to change things outside of ourselves for things to get better, but we always have some choice no matter what is going on outside of us

• How to feel grateful for our resistance

• What aikido can teach us about how to approach resistance.

• Why it's not about winning and losing, but about ending conflict.

• The importance of giving yourself credit for asking for help

• The value of using your instincts about who you talk to in therapeutic contexts and the importance of reaching out to others in similar circumstances

• The benefits of physical activity and loving kindness meditations as daily habits for emotional health

• How the philosophy of moving towards wholeness and developing all the aspects of self can be the focus for growth

Dr. Steven's website: http://www.drstevenjcurley.com

Dr. Steven's suggested resources:

• Deep breaths, rhythmic breathing, and meditation

• Comedy and laughter

• "The Tao of Pooh" Benjamin Hoff

• "Start Where You Are" Pema Chodron

En este episodio la Dra. Carmen Román nos ayuda a identificar los tipos de pensamientos negativos que usamos algunas veces de manera inconsciente.

Y nos ayuda a entender cuál es el impacto en nuestra salud mental.

Aquí aprenderás:

• • Tipos de pensamientos negativos
• • Características del pensamiento automático:
• • Consecuencias del pensamiento negativo en nuestra salud mental
• • Plan de recuperación de los pensamientos negativos

Visita la página oficial del podcast para más episodios https://emotionsinharmony.com

O visita la página de la Dra. Carmen Román para más información http://www.carmenroman.net

In this episode Dr. Carmen interviews Dr. D'vorah Grenn.

Dr. D'vorah served as a Chair and Executive Co Faculty in the Women and Spirituality Masters Program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now called Sofia University.

She is also the cofounder of the Spiritual Guidance Network, and on the founding advisory board of the Kohenet Priestesses Training Institute. She is here to share her experiences of women in spirituality, sacred space and laughing together. Dr D'vorah has a strong commitment to help women be joyful about being women. The interview will start with chanting and a minute of silence. Enjoy!

What you will Learn:

• Dr. D'vorah's story: how she started to understand that there is more to life than work and an artificial set of values, and moved towards a sense and awareness of spirituality.

• The difference between religion and spirituality and why people are searching for wholeness and peace in their lives.

• The goddess movement and how Dr. D'vorah became passionate on the subject in the liminal space between leaving corporate and going to this other life.

• How we can repress our spirit, through work, drugs, social commitments and expectations

• The importance and truth of finding out who you are, your true self and inner wisdom and your own power, voice and intuition

• Dr. D'vorah's advice for somebody who struggles with emotions. "Fall down seven times, get up eight." Buddhist proverb "No beginning is too small." Leonard Bernstein "To achieve great things, 2 things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."

• Why women feel overwhelmed by having to be taking care of others as well as doing full time jobs, despite being raised to take care of others.

• How finding time, even 10 minutes, for ourselves in a ritual practice can sustain us.

• The common fears of not being enough, perfectionism, speaking up, making a mistake that is caused by the social and cultural conditioning of being a woman.

• Where to start to start the healing process by overcoming this fear

• How the media profits from making us feel not enough • Why you sometimes can't confide in your family and why you need to have a supportive women's community and find a place that is healing.

• The importance of knowing the background of the person you are going to talk to and why you should check them out first so you know they're trustworthy • What the tree of life practice is

• What to do if you don't have space or safety for an alter or place to create some meaning

• Daily habits that contribute to our emotional success and spiritual practices to get mind, body and spirit aligned.

• Why you have to go out of your way to look for independent media so that you get the news of what's happening that isn't being reported on by the mainstream media

• The importance of sitting and going within, and of consuming art that inspires you, taking concrete action to volunteer to help others for a cause you are passionate about.

• The value of phone calls and face-to-face meetings and starting conversations when advocating for something and being a political and spiritual activist You can contact D'vorah at [email protected] or call 650 863 1986

Her website is also: http://spiritualguidancenetwork.org/dvorah-grenn/

Mentioned Resources:

"Lilith's Fire" by D'vorah Grenn http://amzn.to/2r0eMd1

"Women who run with the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes http://amzn.to/2q4AU5B

"Shakti Woman" by Vicki Noble http://amzn.to/2qpt7Cs

"Goddesses in Everywoman" by Jean Shinoda Bolen http://amzn.to/2q1Xn5t

"Journey through the Wilderness" Rabbi Yael Levy http://amzn.to/2piiy42

"The Dance of Anger" by Harriet Lerner http://amzn.to/2qQ8tLN

"You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation" by Deborah Tannen http://amzn.to/2qpx6ii

"Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde http://amzn.to/2qPNclu

"Stepping into Ourselves" by Anne Key and Candace Kant, eds http://amzn.to/2qY0Wa3

"The Myth of Women's Masochism" by Paula Caplan http://amzn.to/2q20Jpg

Yoga Nidra meditations on YouTube

Los secretos entre nuestro corazón y nuestras emociones se reflejan en la calidad de relaciones con nuestros seres queridos. Aprender las dinámicas que usas te puede evitar malestares en tu mente, tu cuerpo. . . y tu cartera En este episodio la Dra. Carmen Román te comparte sus reflexiones al dar terapia a familias con crisis económicas. Aquí aprenderás:

Dinámicas emocionales más comunes:

• A quien se le ama más, más le da.

• La culpa es un motivo popular para dar dinero

• La vergüenza de ser inadecuado es frecuente en las negociaciones injustas.

• Tiene la fantasía de que a cambio de dinero recibirá amor y respeto

• La mayoría de las creencias de dinero se forman en la infancia Observaciones en familias que están en crisis económica:

• Las mujeres promueven la riqueza del hombre a veces sin saberlo

• Es necesaria una planeación eficiente del dinero.

• Se forman reglas silenciosas y dolorosas.

• Secretos alrededor del uso del dinero generan divisiones.

También la Dra. Román te propone algunas preguntas que te convendría hacerte para mejorar tu relación con tu gente y el dinero.

Y por ultimo te da ideas para crear una relación emocional sana con tus finanzas.

Conéctate con la Dra. en:

www.carmenroman.net

In today's episode, Dr. Carmen interviews Dr. Fabrice Nye, a therapist from Silicon Valley. Dr. Fabrice uses an interesting mix of transpersonal psychology, spirituality and cognitive behavioral therapy. He has his own podcast in iTunes called The Feeling Good Podcast, and says he prefers to use tools rather than schools of therapy and whatever works when working with clients. Please enjoy this interesting and inspiring interview today.

What you will learn in today's episode:

• Dr. Fabrice's story going from the IT/engineering world to psychotherapy, and his philosophy of a holistic and spiritual approach to psychotherapy.

• A motivational approach and model of therapy called TEAM, which stands for testing, empathy, agenda setting and methods.

• The difference in the wording: emotions vs feelings.

• Why we tend to shy away from the uncomfortable emotions and seek out the pleasant ones

• The importance of empathy with clients and why there's no healing until there is enough of a bond between therapist and client.

• The value in spending time breathing (e.g. belly breathing) with a client so they can be in a more calm state and regain a level of self-control

• Dr. Fabrice's approach in getting as stable as he can and then waiting for others to join him at that level, rather than matching people on the level of anxiety they are at.

• The most common and most damaging mistake people do with their emotions (avoiding them) and advice for somebody in this state.

• The distinction between and different approaches towards the anxiety provoking emotions (like fear, worry, shame, frustration) and the depressive type of emotions, (sadness, the blues, loneliness, abandonment, hopelessness and despair.)

• How to see negative symptoms as a reflection of the fantastic human being you are. • The way culture can create differences in approaches to emotions

• The importance of education about the evolutionary mechanisms that are causing some of our modern emotions.

• The daily habit Dr. Fabrice recommends that contributes to emotional success (mindfulness) and what the STOP technique is

• Dr. Fabrice's tips for someone starting their healing journey Suggested resources: Dr. Fabrice website and FB

http://drnye.net http://www.facebook.com/DrNye

Dr. Fabrice podcast:

http://j.mp/feel-good-podcast

Books he talked about:

Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frank http://amzn.to/2p7kH15

Loving what is: Four questions that can change your life by Byron Katie http://amzn.to/2ofAPyF

The website he recommends:

https://feelinggood.com

Dr. Carmen Roman website:

http://www.carmenroman.net

Music by www.bensound.com