From Fear to Flow ™

Posted by on Nov 5, 2015 in Blog | 0 comments The new book From Fear to Flow ™: Set yourself free from painful patterns to create enduring happiness, reduce stress & change your life for good is under way. I am writing a new book proposal for a literary agency who will sell the book to a publisher. I’m finding the process of writing the proposal a wonderful exercise in getting clear about how to refine the system I’ve been...
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New Video about Integrative Psychotherapy

Posted by on Jun 12, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments Are you curious about what I mean by integrative psychotherapy? from Sean Patrick Hatt on Vimeo.
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The 8-fold Path to Happiness—Mapping Modern Positive Psychology to 2500 Years of Buddhist Teaching

Posted by on Apr 2, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments The Buddha mapped out the Noble 8-Fold Path to Enlightenment over 2,500 years ago, and included it in his most fundamental teaching: The Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble Truths are, briefly: 1) Human Life is inherently fraught with “dukkha,” a Pali term that is loosely translated in the West to mean suffering (though it more closely resembles “unsatisfactory-ness” than suffering); 2) The cause...
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All Stressed Out? Lean In and Breathe.

Posted by on Mar 29, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments It’s not a big surprise to anyone that meditation leads to increased feelings of peace and tranquility. Thanks to scientists at UC Davis, we now have a better biochemical understanding of how this happens in our bodies. A newly published study by the Shamatha Project at the UC Davis Center for the Mind and Brain shows an inverse correlation between mindfulness meditation and that nasty “stress...
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New Fremont Office Space.

Posted by on Mar 2, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments I just completed building out a new transpersonal psychology office space in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Here are some Before photos of the transformation, followed by a video of the final product. The camera in my iPad doesn’t really do the space justice, but you can get a hint of what it feels like here. The statue is Kannon (Meiji period Japan ca. 1890-1910), Buddha of...
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