Elbow Bumps and Pandemonium - Blog#26 - 28 March 2020
Ed Chandler and Beyond
by Ed Chandler
4y ago
Meet the Beatles - 2012 The elbow has never competed with the brain, the heart, the stomach, or our gonads for favorite body part awards. But it has gained ground on its more popular rivals recently, on the strength of its newfound survival value. The recent battle between humans and viruses for control of the planet has left handshakes, hugs, and kisses sidelined, replaced by elbow bumps and other greetings. We have seen foot tapping, peace signs, thumbs up, waving, quasi-shakes (moving your unextended hand up and down as if shaking hands), and other awkward gestures. “Namaste,” the traditio ..read more
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Gratitude - Blog#25 - 24 November 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Precious Package - 1982 Why is Thanksgiving special? What makes it special for you? As a psychologist, the holidays are often difficult for my clients, because they stir up family issues that are more easily avoided at other times of the year. For some, it’s a felt obligation to visit family, requiring immersion in unresolved conflicts. For some it’s wet grief, intense sadness over the loss of a very special person. For others, it’s dry grief, the flat sadness that someone who should have been special wasn’t, and now that they’re gone; t ..read more
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Bullies on the Block - Blog# 24 - 15 November 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Museum of Communism - Prague - August 2019 As the dust settles from our visit to Prague and our cruise down the Danube, I bring you a visceral, not just an intellectual reaction to the bullies on the block of Central Europe. The mood was first captured in Nuremberg, with predictable nausea over Nazi atrocities. But less expected historical gems were found in two venues in the Czech capital of Prague: the Museum of Communism, and a photographic exhibit commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain. First, if you will ..read more
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The Wisdom of Vulnerability - Blog#23 - 23 August 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Butterfly Romance - 2009 It is natural to avoid pain, because it is, well, painful! When we experience emotional pain, it is natural to try to eliminate that pain from the mind so that we can feel happy and pain free. None of us enjoy feeling sad, guilty, ashamed, anxious, fearful, etc. Who wants to feel vulnerable? We typically seek out positive feelings, wanting to feel happy, excited, joyful, humorous, content, serene, and untroubled. In our zeal to create positive feelings while minimizing negative feelings, it is easy to perceive ne ..read more
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Is Me cRaZie!? - Blog#22 - 9 August 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Bridgequake - 2010 This is a loaded question if there ever was one. It is the provocative version of the question, “What is normal?” No one wants to be “crazy,” and most of us would prefer to be considered normal. On the other hand, most people want to be “unique,” not a cookie-cutter clone of some middle-gray cardboard portrait of normalcy. We all want to be competent, yet special and one of a kind, capable of managing our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships, but not so common or standardized that we are boring and b-flat ..read more
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Secular Spirituality, aka, Spiritual Atheism - Blog#21 - 12 July 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Air Niagara - 2015 Thank you for inviting me to share with you today. My main thesis today is that spirituality can be found at the intersection of consciousness and connectedness. So how did it come to pass that my consciousness is connecting with your consciousness on this sunny Sunday morning in June of 2019?2019? Age 68? OMG! So right off the bat, here we have one of the primary spiritual emotions for you, perhaps the darkest one of all – death anxiety, the fear of annihilation of the self.Wasn’t it just yesterday that I was sitting ..read more
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Managing Sadness and Depression - Blog#20 - 7 July 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Crippled Glory - 2007 Sadness and depression are two different entities. Sadness is an emotion, as are guilt, shame, loneliness, irritation, and feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and worthlessness. Such feelings are the most prominent emotions present during depression. Clinical depression goes well beyond mere feelings, however, and is better viewed as a syndrome that includes cognitive, behavioral, and physical ("vegetative") symptoms in addition to mood symptoms. Beyond the negative moods noted above, depressive sym ..read more
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Psychomechanics Has Arrived! - Blog#19 - 16 June 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Available on Amazon - June 21, 2019 During my past four decades in clinical psychology, I gradually developed an understanding of what produces personal change, and I began writing. In 2002, my wife, D’Lane, and I broke loose from our psychiatric colleagues and formed our Turning Point Center for Psychological and Family Growth (yes, I’ve been accused of being verbose). D’Lane used her cyber-talents to create a website (www.turningpoint4u.com) for our practice, dragging your narrator into the digital professional world. Adding to our web ..read more
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Birth, Death, Sex, Awe, and Mars - Blog#18 - 7 June 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Ro’s Bee - 2008 Birth, and conception itself are miraculous, even if you don’t believe in miracles. Awesome on three counts: that males and females exist in the first place, are sexually attracted so irresistibly, and can produce new life. And when that new life is ready, the very process of birth is wondrous in itself. With less impactful events, we can get so used to the world around us, so desensitized, that we lose appreciation for the commonplace facets of our existence, the dandelions in the lawn. We need to step back, and ask: “Wh ..read more
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Why was Giordano Bruno Gagged and Burned at the Stake? - Blog#17 - 24 May 2019
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by Ed Chandler
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Venice the Menace - 2014 (Venice, Italy) The year was 1600. Both religion and astronomy were in a state of revolution, and in conflict with each other to boot. On October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation began. Martin Luther, angry that Pope Leo X was financing the building of St. Peter’s Basilica via another round of pay-for-salvation indulgences, nailed his 95 Theses to the chapel door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg. With the aid of the printi ..read more
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