Category Archives: Psychology

Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D. on a Post-Genital Puberty

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Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D.  is currently copresident of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and was lead-producer of the forty-country, World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality in India, 2008, where the Office of the Dalai Lama assigned the Prime Minister of Tibet (L. Samdong) to keynote.

He has performed Sanskrit chanting in hundreds of conferences, ceremonies and retreats, worldwide, and have led Holocaust Healing (Freiburg) and Post-apartheid Healing (Johannesburg) chanting events and was secretly flown to Slovenia, post-911, to chant over the dying chair of Unaligned Nations of the World, Janez Drnovsek and has led seven kundalini and tantra retreats in Moscow.
On the show we cover:
 
Stuart’s journey;  
*Yoga, Meditation and Chanting as means of Waking up, Opening the  Heart and Generating Bliss
* Yogic Inner Marriage ‘ Puberty of the Seed’
*  Bringing Yoga to youth prisons ( 1970′s) 
* Teaching  meditation to local government officials and kids in public school ( late 1970′s) 
 
Post Genital Puberty;
* Teenage puberty and fertility
* Mystical Marriage: masculine/feminine energy currents moving up the spine
* Inner and outer marriages 
* Not just sex but erotic arts
*  Birth Control, Abortion and procreation
*  Further reachers of human development and creating a more loving, connected and fun marriage, family life and extended community
* Myth and the spiritual body 
 
 

Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D. on a Spiritual approach to Couples Counseling

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Stuart Sovatsky Ph.D.  is currently copresident of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and was lead-producer of the forty-country, World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality in India, 2008, where the Office of the Dalai Lama assigned the Prime Minister of Tibet (L. Samdong) to keynote.

He has performed Sanskrit chanting in hundreds of conferences, ceremonies and retreats, worldwide, and have led Holocaust Healing (Freiburg) and Post-apartheid Healing (Johannesburg) chanting events and was secretly flown to Slovenia, post-911, to chant over the dying chair of Unaligned Nations of the World, Janez Drnovsek and has led seven kundalini and tantra retreats in Moscow.

Stuart’s books include:
 
On the show we cover:
  • Racial Integration in NY (Brown v Board and Sal Alinksy) 
  • Human Family at the Species Level
  • Life Process Community Ritual 
  • Couples and Family Therapy
  • The universe is organized around love and connection
  • Power of Thank You
  • Saving couples, children and families 
  • Teaser on his work on Kundalini Yoga ideas on a  post-genital puberty 

Ben King, Armor Down – Working with Veterans with Meditation and Yoga

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Ben returned from Iraq in 2007. For six months he was flying high. Then the euphoria of returning home wore off and he was left with sleepless nights and a surprising amount of stress and physical discomfort. He spent the next 2 years worth of trial and error trying to figure out how to use mindfulness and exercise to calm his mind and realign his body for a civilian lifestyle. The Army taught him how to up armor his mind and body for War. He taught himself how to Armor Down.

On the show we cover:

  • War stress
  • Yoga and sleep
  • Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba and Armor Down Blog
  • Mindfulness Meditation; developing the witness and creating inner peace
  • Happy Wife, Happy Life
  • SEAL’s CDR Mark Divine & Rob DuBois on warriorship and meditation
  • Memorial Day Event

Armor Down - http://armordown.blogspot.com

Eric Wolterstorff on Social Trauma

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Eric Wolterstorff is an expert on societal and individual responses to traumatic events. He has founded three businesses and spent over 25 years helping leaders manage crises, including post-Katrina New Orleans, Germany, and Indonesia; and has been conducting social trauma analyses on the US, Germany, Israel, Japan, and Rwanda. He is current focusing on governance relationships between wealthy countries and developing countries responding to impending threats, current crises, or large-scale traumas.

On the show we cover:
* Trauma and Stress
*  Belief & Awareness
* Second Memory- unwinding trauma in the body/mind
* Creating new habits
* Catharsis and Somatic management
* Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system
*  Flight, Flee & Freeze
* Creating boundaries
More information about Shifting Cultures

Dave Asprey, Bullet Proof Executive on Bio-Hacking

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Dave Asprey is a Silicon Valley investor, computer security expert, and entrepreneur who spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology. Some of the topics discussed in this interview include:  Noorotropics, EQ, non-ordinary states of consciousness, perinatal psychology, Holotropic Breathwork, coffee, Epi-Genetics, sleep, sex and making babies.  Dave’s websites mentioned during the show are Bullet Proof Executive & Better Baby Book.

From the Bullet Proof Executive:

What is the Art of Biohacking?

  • Hack Your Biology and Bio-chemistry for more focus, better health, and happiness
  • Use Technology to get Immediate Feedback From Your Performance, Diet, Sleep, etc.

How to Keep Your Brain From Turning Off?

  • After meetings, Dave didn’t remember half the things that happened. He began to play FreeCell, and found out some days he could play and others he couldn’t. Hence, the need to a better diet, practices, and supplements.
  • Provigil increases your ability to focus and it is profound what you can do. It is a prescription medicine. The military uses it for fighter pilots in replacement of methamphetamine to stay up for 40-50 hours.
  • Aniracetam is our new Upgraded Brain
  • MCT Oil reverses disease in studies, as seen on our podcast episode #

Sleep Hacking?

  • Sleep is controlled by the reptilian brain
  • Improve the quality of your sleep, and you can recover faster
  • More good stress and good food during the day helps you have higher quality sleep
  • After your nervous system learns, your body knows you are not going to die and will be able to sleep less.

Holotropic Breath-work

  • Imitates LSD and you experience very strong visionary state
  • Dave learned a lot about himself. Answering questions like: Why am I here? What is holding me back?

Other Topics Discussed in the Show:

Powerful Peace from Battlefield to Classroom & Boardroom to Bedroom.

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Back by popular demand for a fourth interview is Retired Navy Seal Robert DuBois, author of Powerful Peace, the book revolutionizing conflict prevention concepts needed now more than ever in our increasingly polarized world with escalating harmful consequences of the antiquated us vs. them paradigm.  In today’s podcast Michael and Robert explore the compelling examples of how these ideas are taking hold – not only to ease international relations but in every level of society. Powerful Peace is a game-changer in the classroom, boardroom, battlefield, and bedroom, explains Mr. Dubois.

Michael and Rob will exercise your mind in this conversation with something to pique everyone’s interest: “cause a pause,” wideminding, oxytocin, Stephen Covey, “brown belt syndrome”, political fundraising, Stalin, fisticuffs, Japanese train fights, and much more!  There’s even a cameo by Bruce Lee.

Learn more at PowerfulPeace.net about Rob’s book and his work to promote smart power, cultural competency and ultimately stop the needless harm and loss resulting from misplaced and unbridled hate.

The Moral Molecule: a union of economics and biology

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Is there a biologic basis for trust? What implications does biology have for the economic relationships between humans? In this podcast Michael visits with Paul Zak, Ph.D. a pioneer in the discipline of neuroeconomics. They answer these two questions (and many more) as they delve into Dr. Zak’s research – and self experimentation – with the human hormone oxytocin, which is also the subject of his book, “The Moral Molecule.”  In addition to economic behavior, this simple 9 amino acid sequence may influence the paradoxes of human interaction like why our species engages in courageous acts of compassion yet also perpetrates violence. To learn about these many facets of oxytocin (and hear why Dr. Zak won’t shake your hand) you’ll want to listen to their entire conversation.

Your Emotional Type: Key to the Therapies That Will Work for You

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Michael Ostrolenk interviews Dr. Mark S. Micozzi.

Marc Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., speaks about issues regarding mental health, integral medicine, and his new book, “Your Emotional Type,” which he co-authored with Michael Jawer.  Read more about Dr. Micozzi’s book at http://www.youremotionaltype.com/.  You can also visit http://innertraditions.com to read more about Marc as an author.

Trauma dynamics in individuals, groups, and society

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The trauma (both physical and emotional) individuals experiences throughout life have effects that flow not only to the individuals themselves, but also to their friends and family. For instance, a child will internalize the anxiety of his mother. And vice-versa, trauma experienced by larger groups can transfer effects to individual members of the group and those they interact with.  In this podcast with Michael Ostrolenk, psychotherapist Dr. Eric Wolterstorff explores the physical & neurological pathways the effects of trauma use to move between individuals and groups.  Learn more about Dr. Wolterstorff’s work healing individuals and families at www.loveandtrauma.com and his work with organizational trauma at www.shiftingculture.com.

Optimal living, diet, exercise & evolutionary cognitive neuroscience

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Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience examines why the human brain has evolved with unique complex abilities, e.g. self-awareness & free will.  In this podcast Steven Platek, PhD, talks with Michael Ostrolenk about the evolutionary jump that created a link between the brain and the conscious mind and the role exercise and diet play in maintaining the optimal operation of our mind and body.  These advances in brain function took place at a time when humans were constantly in motion foraging for rudimentary foods, explains Dr. Platek, and our modern sedentary lifestyle and carb-heavy diets thus diminish the performance of our brain and interconnected gut and immune systems.  Michael and Dr. Platek also take a look at theories about what benefits religion and non-ordinary states of conscious, like meditation, have to our human consciousness.  Learn more about Dr. Platek and his work in the journal he co-edits Evolutionary Psychology and at his website devoted to functional fitness http://www.crossfit-gwinnett.com.