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(Do Not) Change
There is nothing against change unless there is nothing for change. Change as a purpose by itself may lead to negating the nonconscious (even more). A superficial change without going in-depth, just for the sake of change is no change at all. At least, not the change that I’m talking about in this text. The Read the full article…
Autosuggestion Changes Your Brain
Something that may hold someone back from really being able to put faith in the influence of autosuggestion on the body, is the idea: psyche is abstract – how can this have an impact on the physical, concrete body? This is a question that’s on many people’s minds since long and probably many people will Read the full article…
How to Open Someone to Change
Trying to ‘open’ someone to a change of view or behavior, is a common situation. It’s that of a coach with a coachee, or of you perhaps, wanting to ‘open’ someone to another view. People have a natural resistance to be changed. Quite rightly so. There is a natural tendency towards survival as an individual. Read the full article…
40. In search of the button that says ‘change’
If only people were robots… there would be buttons at their backs, reading ‘change’. Push the button and there you go. Brave new world! ◊◊◊ But it’s not this world, for the time being. Still, there is a general idea that change really is as simple as that. The idea is not backed up by Read the full article…
Is Global Ethics Possible?
If so, can Compassion profoundly influence the development and acceptance of such a universal ethical framework? Cultural ethical diversity At the core, humans share a vast amount of psychological and genetic similarities. This commonality suggests that a foundational level of global ethics is feasible. At the same time, the diversity of cultures presents a rich Read the full article…
What seems ‘Difficult’ and is Not
At least if one doesn’t make it so. Many human-related ‘difficult’ things are made so. The reason can be boiled down to a lack of insight. This text is the counterpart to the blog ‘What seems ‘Easy’ and is Not.’ You might read them in one go. In the other blog, I write about some Read the full article…
Single-Session Therapy
‘Single-session therapy’ (SST) is a therapy format that started in the U.S. at the beginning of the nineties. It can be related to any psychotherapeutic school or no school. The focus lies as much as possible on empowering the client. This accords with the Aurelian focus on inner Strength. Other Aurelian values (openness, depth, respect, Read the full article…
Fostering Climate Motivation
This is the introduction to a Lisa File (38 p.). If you want the whole file, please contact lisa@aurelis.org, stating who you are and why you want the file. Pressing challenge Climate change presents one of the most pressing challenges of our time, intertwining environmental sustainability with economic and social dynamics that affect every corner Read the full article…
The Lisa Distinction
Bringing Lisa to this world may bring about many essential and direly needed changes. However, being needed for a long time also shows the challenge. Otherwise, these changes would have happened by now. Before going further, it’s good to ponder (for more about each, see other blogs): Antidepressants are a multibillion-dollar market (and growing), while Read the full article…
Guided Meditation and A.I.
In the fast-paced world of today, the quest for (deep) emotional wellness leads to the fusion of ancient practices with cutting-edge technology. Guided meditation, a practice with roots deep in history, is finding a new ally in artificial intelligence (A.I.). Does this herald a new horizon for emotional wellness, fundamentally transforming how we understand and Read the full article…
Lisa’s Journey into Mediation Mastery
AURELIS Transformative Mediation facilitates a profound journey toward self-improvement and relational harmony. Here are ten use cases with a focus on how Lisa (see category) can act as a mediator, each paired with a concrete example. Please read first AURELIS Transformative Mediation. 1. Resolving Workplace Conflicts Work-out: Lisa can guide employees through their feelings and Read the full article…
The Power of Embedding
This is the power of complexity in humans and in present-day Large Language Models (the most visible form of A.I. nowadays). ‘Embedding’ is the transformation of information/knowledge into a format of many subconceptual elements interacting in multifaceted systems that makes this information prone to emerge in novel ways. A multitude of relatively simple (smaller than Read the full article…
Lisa’s Depth
Can a robot have mental ‘depth’? Before answering this question, we need to delve into what is depth itself. Please also read ‘Human Depth.’ What is mental depth? Human depth is not anything like ten or a hundred layers of the same thing, one beneath the other. Deeper ‘layers’ – if you want to look Read the full article…
Predatory Listening
The predatory listener seems to have a continual need to defend himself, thinking that the other person will attack as he would also attack whenever having the opportunity. Predatory listening has the intent to exploit, manipulate, negatively criticize, or gain an advantage over the speaker by abusing the attained information. It lacks genuine empathy or Read the full article…
Growing out of Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Dissonance is notoriously hard to overcome. An alternative is not to try to do so but to go with the flow and see which way out of it spontaneously emerges. Cognitive dissonance: the discomfort experienced by an individual holding two contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time or being confronted with new Read the full article…
What is ‘Dying too Soon’?
Nobody really wants to die too soon except in an act of suicide. Too soon? An accident, an illness, a homicide — there are many obvious ways of dying too soon. There are also less obvious ways. Are these, therefore, less important? Dear reader, it’s interesting to stay focused on this question for a while Read the full article…
Compassionate versus Non-Compassionate A.I.
Making the critical distinction between Compassionate and Non-Compassionate A.I. is not evident and probably the one factor that most shapes our future. In contrast to Compassionate A.I. (C.A.I.), non-Compassionate A.I. (N.C.A.I.) lacks depth. Thus, even if human-centered – or maybe precisely then – N.C.A.I. lacks a crucial factor in properly communicating with and supporting humans Read the full article…