San Francisco Therapy and Counseling, Scott Balderson, MFT

When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life

Scott Balderson — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:06:00 +0000

In When Panic Attacks, Dr. Burns shows you how to work with and eventually moderate anxiety. He presents more than forty techniques that have been shown to be effective.

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)

Scott Balderson — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:30:05 +0000

The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses:

   • Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage
   • Communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down
   • Practices for reversing habitual patterns
   • Methods for working with chaotic situations
   • Ways for creating effective social action

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:19:56 +0000

In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Most of us go to extraordinary lengths to ignore, laugh off, or deny the fact that we are going to die, but preparing for death is one of the most rational and rewarding acts of a lifetime. It is an exercise that gives us the opportunity to deal with unfinished business and enter into a new and vibrant relationship with life. Levine provides us with a year-long program of intensely practical strategies and powerful guided meditations to help with this work, so that whenever the ultimate moment does arrive for each of us, we will not feel that it has come too soon.

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:19:54 +0000

The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person’s care, facing their own death, or wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the dying process. Her teachings affirm that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help others who are suffering to do the same.

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:27:37 +0000

Illuminates the value of understanding the psychophysiology of trauma for both clinicians and their traumatized clients. Traumatized people hold a memory of that trauma in their brains and bodies. This is the first book to link this phenomenon of somatic memory and the impact of trauma on the body. Reducing the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridging the gap between talk and body therapy, Rothschild presents techniques for addressing the memory in the body.

Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:27:35 +0000

Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

Emptiness Dancing

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:24:58 +0000

In recent years, the bold new teacher known as Adyashanti has dared hundreds of students across North America to ask: What is ultimately behind this set of eyes? In the process of this inquiry we may let go of who we think we are, and begin to understand what we are. In Emptiness Dancing, readers can explore these subtle differences, and many other human perceptions and misconceptions that unconsciously define our lives. The funny thing about enlightenment, or awakening, is that we miss it even though it's not hidden. Destined to become a spiritual classic, Emptiness Dancing brings readers to Adyashanti's quintessential teachings in a mind-to-mind transmission from this gifted teacher.

The Seat of the Soul

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:24:56 +0000

With the same extraordinary skill that he used to demystify scientific abstraction and the new physics, Gary Zukav, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new phase of evolution we have now entered.

With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses -- external power -- into a species that pursues authentic power -- power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction.

Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on.

Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:24:55 +0000

This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.

Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing

Scott Balderson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:22:07 +0000

The first meditators in history were the shamans, whose practices for contemplation and connecting with the divine are echoed in virtually every spiritual tradition today. On Shamanic Meditations, Sandra Ingerman invites you to return to the source of human spirituality--and experience for yourself the enduring power of these ancient practices for healing, guidance, and awakening. With seven guided meditations called "journeys" in the shamanic tradition--from a renowned author and teacher, this two-hour program features an overview of shamanic principles, guided practices for finding your "spirit teachers" and "power animals," the shamanic initiation into oneness, and more.