Why AureLisa?
The AureLisa project aims to value the total human being on many domains and to support the individual through 1000+ AurelisOnLine sessions of autosuggestion, A.I. coach-bot Lisa (see: Introducing Lisa), and more. Altogether, this is about a paradigm shift with huge practical implications. See also: The Lisa Revolution. The importance of AureLisa in ten points You Read the full article…
Psychotherapy or Mental Growth?
This is: curing a mental illness or fostering Inner Strength? What should a person with a mentally related issue strive for? Concerning mental and psycho-somatic issues Psychotherapy carries the connotation of being pointed toward strictly mental problems. Contrary to this, although seemingly hazier, mental growth has broader applicability. Many practitioners of somatic medicine wouldn’t like Read the full article…
The Client is the Therapy
This is about the client in psychotherapy. It is also about the patient in medicine insofar as the mind is involved ― say, psycho-somatics, easily involving half of the medical domain. See my book Your Mind as Cure. Psychotherapy, schematically A good evolution in healthcare, including psychotherapy, is to put the client at the center. Read the full article…
No Lasting Change from the Surface
In contrast to depth, the surface is the ‘superficial’ level of the human mind. Something may temporarily change at the surface like quicksand. It’s not the right level for lasting change. Read about ubiquitous depth. In therapy/coaching, attaining lasting change is a challenge. Theory goes toward a genetically determined stable state whereto any change (from Read the full article…
G.I.M.O. toward Lasting Change
Each of the G.I.M.O. elements (as part of any AURELIS coaching session) is oriented toward lasting change. The promise to the coachee is that this is possible and within reach ― if the coachee collaborates. Please read G.I.M.O. Wanted: depth, alive Thus, it’s important to find out pretty soon whether the client is principally ready Read the full article…
Insight = Change
Insight is not information. It is not merely conceptual knowledge. Insight is rather wisdom. Wisdom is yours. Your wisdom can never be mine. Therefore, I cannot give you wisdom. If I tried to push my insight into you, it wouldn’t be your insight. It might be inside you for a while, then wither like a Read the full article…
The Promise of Psycho-Soma-Therapy
Looking at some skeptical questions in need of sensible answers to grasp the promise of using the psyche, therefore also of Lisa’s impact on bodily health (psycho-somatics). This hyper-hyperlinked text brings several strands together to make a point of the promise. The intrigued reader can delve further into many directions. Two sides On the one Read the full article…
Placebo Must Go
As quickly as possible and as far as it goes, with due respect to the human condition. Eventually, no humane future – in healthcare and society in general – can be based on placebo. This abstract text is not about any specific placebo. You will find examples in other blog-essays. See Empathy vs. Placebo. In Read the full article…
Subconscious is Dead. Long Live Non-Conscious!
‘The subconscious’ stems from the Freudian take that some conscious-like thing lurks in the mind behind a fence of repression, ready to jump forward or wreak havoc from behind the fence. Contrary to this, the non-conscious is just plain and hard modern cognitive neuroscience. Freud still engenders much resistance. Putting this in history, let’s go Read the full article…
Depth is Everywhere
Everywhere and nowhere. Depth is a characteristic of human mental processing. See: What is ‘Depth’?. Depth is how the brain works by default ― nothing special. See, for instance, The Poetic Brain. At the same time, we see a stark lack of depth in so many places and situations. The world is sleepwalking from crisis Read the full article…
Compassion is Not Easy
Compassion, not in the sense of pity or plain empathy, but what in the striving eventually points to Eastern Enlightenment. Especially important for understanding this text is knowing what I exactly mean by Compassion. Please make sure to read Compassion, Basically before going further. The mind in healthcare Compassion is crucial for psychotherapy because of Read the full article…
Every Open Leader’s Final Goal is Global
At any level, the Open goal is the global goal ― yes, the world, at least. There is no contradiction in this, but a mindset and a challenge – for the Open leader – to bring goals together in mutually strengthening ways. The final goal may be so far away that it looks like it Read the full article…
Qualia
What is it like to be a human being who sees redness (or anything)? The difficulty in describing this lies at the core of ‘the problem of qualia.’ Since the Middle Ages, many philosophers, theologians (looking for the soul), and scientists (looking for the brain) have quarreled about ‘qualia.’ To this day, they haven’t agreed Read the full article…
How to Get Rid of CAM
CAM = Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Getting rid of CAM is getting rid of placebo-based medicine. Why should we? How could we? See placebo-based medicine. People feel that it works. No, it doesn’t. Not the ‘dummy pill’ (or whatever acts as such) works. You work, although not necessarily in conscious awareness of how. So, if Read the full article…
The Lisa Revolution ― A.I. Towards Personalized Mind-Related Healthcare
The Lisa revolution is bound to disruptively innovate mind-related healthcare, based on a modern scientific view on the human being and using A.I. to bring practical results and proof. [Please read about the AureLisa Global Consortium. If you have been contacted in this regard, the revolution is welcoming you. Otherwise, if interested, don’t hesitate to Read the full article…
Lisa, Alternative to Alternatives
Non-scientific fundamentalist CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) must depart from this planet as soon as possible ― but no sooner. Lisa may help. ‘Non-scientific’ Science represents the best common sense we can presently bring to gaining truthful knowledge. Upon this, we build technological applications, services, etc. Science is common sense ― not a new kind Read the full article…
AURELIS Coaching is Open Therapy
One may call it ‘fundamental’ psychotherapy. This is Open to the subconceptual level inside the coach and coachee. As in Open Leadership, Open Religion, Open Mindfulness. Not one more kind of psychotherapy It is not just one more construct on top of the many but based on what underlies conceptual psychotherapy in general, being what Read the full article…