Cliff Heegel Ph.D.

Hey- I wrote this 11 years ago. I found it on a hard drive while I was looking for another file. It is a bit simplistic but it has some ideas that are quite powerful if you actually follow up on them. ~~ Cliff When I think about my work as a psychotherapist and counselor, [...]

About that word ‘zen’. Don’t be scared of the word zen. After all, it is just a word. The word ‘zen’ has a lot of different meanings.  In the context of me and my psychology practice, zen is simply a word that points to Awareness Practice. Although zen originated as a Japanese Buddhist practice, it [...]

Living a serene life is not difficult for those who are not caught up in attachment or aversion. When attachment  and  aversion are both absent, everything is clear and simple. However, if you get caught in the mind when it starts to make judgments about how things should be different, your serenity is split apart. [...]

It is not about getting it right It is not about being good It is not about changing yourself It is not about becoming something you aren’t It is not about doing the right thing It is not about other people It is not even about other people treating you right, or treating you wrong. It [...]