{"id":649,"date":"2009-06-17T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-06-17T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:54:26","slug":"emotional-healing-barbara-miller-fishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/emotional-healing-barbara-miller-fishman\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Healing – Barbara Miller Fishman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbara Miller Fishman<\/strong>, Ph.D. is an author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher who has\u00a0extensive experience working with people on a psychological and spiritual path toward healing and wholeness. \u00a0After years of working with women as a psychotherapist, she developed the discipline of Mindfulness Psychotherapy, a combination of mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

Fishman’s book,\u00a0Emotional Healing through Mindfulness Meditation: Stories and Meditations on the Search for Wholeness<\/em> (Inner Traditions, 2002),\u00a0features healing stories of eight women who faced serious trouble before discovering the will to walk “on the path toward wholeness.”<\/p>\n

Excerpts from her web site, EmotionalHealing.net:<\/p>\n

“This commitment came\u00a0with a heavy price. If they wanted to truly live, they had to penetrate the\u00a0inner turmoil that comes with trouble, be it shame, despair, or any one\u00a0of a number of difficult emotions… \u00a0Getting to know the emotions that drove the\u00a0old patterns, the women felt more grounded… \u00a0Emotions that once raged became\u00a0quiet. The women felt at peace with themselves; they had more energy\u00a0for life.”<\/p>\n

Fishman writes about the importance of\u00a0naming the emotions that accompany trouble<\/strong>. \u00a0“Naming these emotions, even\u00a0if it is painful, produces a more authentic, genuine response to life.”<\/p>\n

She also writes about “cultivating complete acceptance,” and “developing equanimity” – referring to emotions that are in balance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“After each story, you’ll find the instructions for a mindfulness meditation. Taken together, these meditations are a course in what I call Mindfulness Psychotherapy. Try taking the course; perhaps it will help you heal your own emotions<\/strong>. For those who prefer to hear rather than read, an accompanying 70 minute CD provides four of the meditations.”<\/p>\n

“The narratives\u00a0are\u00a0punctuated at points when the women had insights that shifted the ground\u00a0on which they stood, if only a millimeter or two. These insights led them\u00a0to make choices that freed them from patterned, habitual behavior and\u00a0moved them forward on their path toward wholeness.”<\/p>\n

In her blog, Barbara Miller Fishman writes, “If an emotion is too powerful, it overrides other emotions. When that happens, it\u2019s important to\u00a0look for the presence of other feeling states (body sensations indicative of an emotion<\/strong>.)<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Fishman, who\u00a0lives in Pennsylvania,\u00a0is also co-author of\u00a0Resonance: The New Chemistry of Love.<\/em><\/p>\n

Web Site: \u00a0EmotionalHealing.net<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Blog: \u00a0meditationexperience.blogspot.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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Barbara Miller Fishman, Ph.D. is an author, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher who has\u00a0extensive experience working with people on a psychological and spiritual path toward healing and wholeness. \u00a0After years of working with women as a psychotherapist, she developed the discipline of Mindfulness Psychotherapy, a combination of mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy. Fishman’s book,\u00a0Emotional Healing through Mindfulness\u2026 Read More: Emotional Healing – Barbara Miller Fishman »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotional-healing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t