MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
October 10, 2007
Simple Exercises to Expose and Eliminate Addictive Thoughts
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m
Presenter: Mr. Athmo Bhandari, M.A., M.S. Mr. Bhandari is a ayurvedic, yoga and qi-gong practitioner. He has been teaching consciousness realization techniques for over eight years.
Fee: Free
Location: The Free Clinic 12201 Euclid Ave., CLEVELAND
An addictive behavior or addiction is a constant fulfillment of an act without any consciousness to its impact on one’s life. Most of psychotherapy and psychiatry practices are geared towards bringing some consciousness to their clients through cognitive therapy or drugs. Without consciousness any positive changes that are desired are not possible to achieve. Even though much stride has been made in both psychology and psychiatry in understanding the brain, the definition and experience of consciousness still remains elusive.
This workshop will focus totally on defining and giving a participant a clear understanding and definition of consciousness and introduce some simple exercises that will give a practitioner an experience of the state of consciousness. The workshop will clearly discuss and elaborate on how our brain creates thoughts and thinking and how these can become addictive.
The focus will be on how to break addictive thoughts and remain free or clear of excess chatter that we all are trying to suppress. The choice of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes are tools to suppress the barrage of thoughts that a person is unable to process. The fundamental idea is that a brain is trying to relax and come to a state of homeostasis with the best tools it has in a short period of time. A human brain is not crazy it is only trying to fulfill objectives (expectations) with tools that are programmed into it.
The Continuing Education Program of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is pleased to bring you 33 workshops for the Fall 2007 Series. We believe these workshops that have been planned will prepare you for meeting the multiple needs of the individual, organizational and community clients that you are serving. We welcome your suggestions for future workshop topics or presenters that you would like to see us feature in future continuing education workshops, and thank you for your continued support of the program.
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