お役立ちリンク集
fun sites collection
水曜日, 2月 05, 2014
土曜日, 3月 23, 2013
目次
Walt Disney
- 楽しき英語
- やさしく楽しく!
- 夢を叶える
- 夢の国を創造
- 一匹のネズミから始まった
- 子ども心は最高の資源
- 逆境が私を鍛えた
- 夢は永遠
- 想像力は年を取らない
- 笑いは時代を超えていく
- 本には多くの宝が転がっている
- 本という宝は毎日味わえる
- 自分をとことん好きになれ!
- 逆境で咲く花は、どの花よりも貴重で美しい
- ウォルト・ディズニー名言集
- 単語力と読解力を一気に高めよう!
- THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW
- 人生の2つの選択
- 選んだものは?
- 恐ろしい妖怪が
- 単語力と読解力を一気に高めよう!
- オランウータンと iPad
- 猿への応用
- 若者は好奇心旺盛
- iPadで性格も変わる
- 世界に広がる活動
- 単語力と読解力を一気に高めよう!
- 英語の宝物
- 著者について
- 著作権
火曜日, 5月 11, 2010
水曜日, 3月 17, 2010
英語ニュース
KIEM-TV News
わかりやすい
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v19621941DY7wJeA8#
This website is intended to help learners of English to make full use of the Bangkok Post, both to improve their English and to gain a better understanding our modern world. Learners of all ages are welcome, from five to 105. Teachers are welcome too. Our weekday lesson plans are an important feature of our programme.
優しい心意気に感心! とてもよくできています。易しく最新のニュースが聞けます。練習もできます。すごいですね。
http://www.readbangkokpost.com/easyenglishnews/
「イカ天!世界のネットTVガイド」は、ネット上で配信されている世界各国のイカすテレビ局をリンクしています。ライブ放送やオンデマンドのニュースなど多数の番組を掲載しています。地域別に分類しているほか、五十音順の国別検索も可能です。お茶の間で海外のテレビ放送を楽しんじゃいましょう。
http://ikaten.squidtv.net/worldtv/index.html
わかりやすい
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v19621941DY7wJeA8#
This website is intended to help learners of English to make full use of the Bangkok Post, both to improve their English and to gain a better understanding our modern world. Learners of all ages are welcome, from five to 105. Teachers are welcome too. Our weekday lesson plans are an important feature of our programme.
優しい心意気に感心! とてもよくできています。易しく最新のニュースが聞けます。練習もできます。すごいですね。
http://www.readbangkokpost.com/easyenglishnews/
「イカ天!世界のネットTVガイド」は、ネット上で配信されている世界各国のイカすテレビ局をリンクしています。ライブ放送やオンデマンドのニュースなど多数の番組を掲載しています。地域別に分類しているほか、五十音順の国別検索も可能です。お茶の間で海外のテレビ放送を楽しんじゃいましょう。
http://ikaten.squidtv.net/worldtv/index.html
外国人のサイト
In 2007, I came to Yurihonjo, Japan, with the JET Program.
Also, see my old blog, But this is human life.
This work (the text of this blog entry) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
For attribution of this work, link to this page and include my name, Douglas P Perkins.
とてもおもしろいブログ、英語の勉強に最適。
http://douglaspperkins.org/index.html
Atami Guide Club for foreigners
Atami Guide Club (AGC), a volunteer interpreter-guide group, has been established to guide wholeheartedly foreign people who visit Atami-city. The Club mainly consists of members who speak English. There are Chinese, Korean and other-language speakers as well.
http://agcatamieg.blogspot.com/
Also, see my old blog, But this is human life.
This work (the text of this blog entry) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
For attribution of this work, link to this page and include my name, Douglas P Perkins.
とてもおもしろいブログ、英語の勉強に最適。
http://douglaspperkins.org/index.html
Atami Guide Club for foreigners
Atami Guide Club (AGC), a volunteer interpreter-guide group, has been established to guide wholeheartedly foreign people who visit Atami-city. The Club mainly consists of members who speak English. There are Chinese, Korean and other-language speakers as well.
http://agcatamieg.blogspot.com/
英語学習教材
VOAスクリプト付き音声付きサイト
http://www.manythings.org/voa/scripts/
In the Beginning
An EasyEnglish Version with Notes (1200 word vocabulary) of the Book of Genesis
やさしい聖書バイブル
http://www.easyenglish.info/english-learners-bible/genesis-taw.htm
There is no better way to improve your English than to listen to it WITH UNDERSTANDING. Having the texts of what is being said available can be a great help. This is what we like to do in this project. We collect the texts of the audiomaterials and make them available so you can listen and read at the same time. Not only that, but by double-clicking on a word, you will be taken to the Cambridge Learners' Dictionary, where you can look up the meaning of a word
http://www.efl.net/audioproject.htm
VOAスクリプト付き音声付きサイト
http://www.eigozai.com/LL/LL.htm
やさしい英語で世界の歴史を学習
KidPast.com is the fun way to explore our history. We are who we are today, because of those who have gone before us.
http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0370-french-revolution.php
ELT Vocabulary Resources
articles and links to vocabulary resources for tefl teachers
http://elt-vocabulary.blogspot.com/2008/05/improving-vocabulary-seven-ideas-for.html
Primary Resources
子どもの全学習教科
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/other/other.htm
たくさんの学習教材
http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/faq/page01.htm
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
by CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/573/573-h/573-h.htm
〔 熟語の早覚え 〕 ~動詞を含む熟語集です。
http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~urutora/eigopeji.htm
英語の名言・格言・ことわざ
http://quotations.livedoor.biz/archives/cat_50029962.html
Breaking News English
EFL / ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News.
Thousands of FREE 13-page, Ready-to-Print Handouts with Downloads & Quizzes.
Keep up with the news and learn English - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking.
易しい英語、聞き取りやすい英語、毎週のトピックス、楽しく学習できて最高です。
いつも聞いています。フリーでいろんな教材完備ですごいです。
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Welcome to English Club online, helping you learn English or teach English. You'll find everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, quizzes and chat - all free!
こちらもおススメです。いろんな教材完備ですごいです。
http://www.englishclub.com/index.htm
Welcome to this English as a Second Language website, a starting point for ESL learners who want to study English through the Web. This site is being constantly updated, so your comments and suggestions are appreciated. With your help, it can continue to be a site that you and others enjoy visiting.
2000以上の読み物完備! 易しいのが一番です。
http://www.rong-chang.com/
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=kids%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&page=2
VocabAhead Study Room provides a distraction free environment with over 1000 difficult words explained using Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards. More vocab videos continuously added. Join us, it's FREE!
こんなに楽しくてよくわかる単語の学習があっていいものでしょうか。
http://www.vocabahead.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx
Search our online library of thousands of free books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.(all are public domain)
時間をとって読みたい本がいっぱいあります。
http://www.classicreader.com/
名作ライブ!では「作家特集」「作品特集」「文学で描かれた土地」「映像化された名作」など名作を取り巻く話題を特集として取り上げます。
http://www.meisakulive.com/books/index/author:%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA+%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA
http://www.manythings.org/voa/scripts/
In the Beginning
An EasyEnglish Version with Notes (1200 word vocabulary) of the Book of Genesis
やさしい聖書バイブル
http://www.easyenglish.info/english-learners-bible/genesis-taw.htm
There is no better way to improve your English than to listen to it WITH UNDERSTANDING. Having the texts of what is being said available can be a great help. This is what we like to do in this project. We collect the texts of the audiomaterials and make them available so you can listen and read at the same time. Not only that, but by double-clicking on a word, you will be taken to the Cambridge Learners' Dictionary, where you can look up the meaning of a word
http://www.efl.net/audioproject.htm
VOAスクリプト付き音声付きサイト
http://www.eigozai.com/LL/LL.htm
やさしい英語で世界の歴史を学習
KidPast.com is the fun way to explore our history. We are who we are today, because of those who have gone before us.
http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0370-french-revolution.php
ELT Vocabulary Resources
articles and links to vocabulary resources for tefl teachers
http://elt-vocabulary.blogspot.com/2008/05/improving-vocabulary-seven-ideas-for.html
Primary Resources
子どもの全学習教科
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/other/other.htm
たくさんの学習教材
http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/faq/page01.htm
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
by CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/573/573-h/573-h.htm
〔 熟語の早覚え 〕 ~動詞を含む熟語集です。
http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~urutora/eigopeji.htm
英語の名言・格言・ことわざ
http://quotations.livedoor.biz/archives/cat_50029962.html
Breaking News English
EFL / ESL English Lesson Plans & Podcast for studying Current Events and News.
Thousands of FREE 13-page, Ready-to-Print Handouts with Downloads & Quizzes.
Keep up with the news and learn English - Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking.
易しい英語、聞き取りやすい英語、毎週のトピックス、楽しく学習できて最高です。
いつも聞いています。フリーでいろんな教材完備ですごいです。
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Welcome to English Club online, helping you learn English or teach English. You'll find everything from lessons for learners to jobs for teachers, including fun pages like games, quizzes and chat - all free!
こちらもおススメです。いろんな教材完備ですごいです。
http://www.englishclub.com/index.htm
Welcome to this English as a Second Language website, a starting point for ESL learners who want to study English through the Web. This site is being constantly updated, so your comments and suggestions are appreciated. With your help, it can continue to be a site that you and others enjoy visiting.
2000以上の読み物完備! 易しいのが一番です。
http://www.rong-chang.com/
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=kids%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts&page=2
VocabAhead Study Room provides a distraction free environment with over 1000 difficult words explained using Vocabulary Videos and Flash Cards. More vocab videos continuously added. Join us, it's FREE!
こんなに楽しくてよくわかる単語の学習があっていいものでしょうか。
http://www.vocabahead.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx
Search our online library of thousands of free books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.(all are public domain)
時間をとって読みたい本がいっぱいあります。
http://www.classicreader.com/
名作ライブ!では「作家特集」「作品特集」「文学で描かれた土地」「映像化された名作」など名作を取り巻く話題を特集として取り上げます。
http://www.meisakulive.com/books/index/author:%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA+%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA
英語役立サイト
URLを入れるだけで、文章単位で分けてくれる。
More and more NLP tasks are related to Web documents processing. All of these tasks require a reliable and effective HTML/TEXT sentence segmenter. Many sentence segmentation tools have been written in perl using regular expressions and pattern matching. They only work with simple pure text, not for complicated text document or web pages in HTML format,
http://www.answerbus.com/sentence/
英文を入れるだけで、単語の使用頻度とレベル4以上の単語の発音と和訳を示してくれる。
http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/_web/lemmaF/
◆ 英文を入力すると発音記号を添えて出力します
http://www.manabo.net/
こちらのページでは学習や研究を進めていくために役に立つウェブサイトを、以下の各分野ごとに紹介していきます。おもに教員の推薦によるサイトですが、学生推薦のものもあります。
http://www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/english/newSite/reference/links.html
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース
http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/
英語例文検索 EReK
単語を入れるとwebから使用例文をアップしてくれる。
http://erek.ta2o.net/s/bawl.html
英語プロによる、こった日本語の英訳など多数
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tecchan_july/c/df6760a098173afd4274bb6d63a92bff
Japan, my Japan! -- A Guide to Japan
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html
Jim Breen's Japanese Page
Welcome to my Japanese Page. As many readers of this page will know, I have an on-going interest in Japan, its people and language. This has led to a number of activities bringing together Japanese and my professional activities in computing and telecommunications. I have assembled this set of pages: (a) to provide information about a number of my projects in the area of Japanese computing and dictionaries, (b) to provide links to some of the resources available on the WWW on Japanese matters.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
What is Tatoeba?
At its core, Tatoeba is a large database of example sentences translated into several languages. But as a whole, it is much more than that.
http://tatoeba.org/eng
GlobalVoices
いろんな意見が読めるサイト
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/17/japan-japanese-language-in-the-age-of-english/
Free English Teaching and Learning Materials for ESL
このサイトは開発途上(β版)ですが、無料でご使用になれます 。
少しでも日本の児童英語教育のお役に立てば幸いです。
PML責任者:峯慎一 フォニックスが学べる
http://www.phonicsmedialab.org/
感動を英語で楽しむためには、感動を生む素晴らしい英文にお目にかからないとだめです。
http://eigo.undo.jp/
高校の英語教育について気ままに書いていきます。 If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. - John Dewey
http://blue-enzo.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/cat31208206/index.html
出来悪娘に教えた英語
このサイトは経済的理由や地理的理由により
予備校にいけない人のために作りました。
受験英語の盲点を集めてあるので
予備校に行っているのと同じ効果があると思います。
http://yakudatuyakudatu.seesaa.net/archives/200809-1.html
JGram is dedicated to helping people learn to speak Japanese, in the most effective interactive way: by communicating, sharing knowledge, and talking between Japanese and non-native speakers. This is an interactive community where you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge to our growing database of Japanese grammar.
http://dev.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=compare
More and more NLP tasks are related to Web documents processing. All of these tasks require a reliable and effective HTML/TEXT sentence segmenter. Many sentence segmentation tools have been written in perl using regular expressions and pattern matching. They only work with simple pure text, not for complicated text document or web pages in HTML format,
http://www.answerbus.com/sentence/
英文を入れるだけで、単語の使用頻度とレベル4以上の単語の発音と和訳を示してくれる。
http://sato.fm.senshu-u.ac.jp/_web/lemmaF/
◆ 英文を入力すると発音記号を添えて出力します
http://www.manabo.net/
こちらのページでは学習や研究を進めていくために役に立つウェブサイトを、以下の各分野ごとに紹介していきます。おもに教員の推薦によるサイトですが、学生推薦のものもあります。
http://www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/english/newSite/reference/links.html
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース
http://www.kotoba.ne.jp/
英語例文検索 EReK
単語を入れるとwebから使用例文をアップしてくれる。
http://erek.ta2o.net/s/bawl.html
英語プロによる、こった日本語の英訳など多数
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/tecchan_july/c/df6760a098173afd4274bb6d63a92bff
Japan, my Japan! -- A Guide to Japan
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Japan.html
Jim Breen's Japanese Page
Welcome to my Japanese Page. As many readers of this page will know, I have an on-going interest in Japan, its people and language. This has led to a number of activities bringing together Japanese and my professional activities in computing and telecommunications. I have assembled this set of pages: (a) to provide information about a number of my projects in the area of Japanese computing and dictionaries, (b) to provide links to some of the resources available on the WWW on Japanese matters.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html
What is Tatoeba?
At its core, Tatoeba is a large database of example sentences translated into several languages. But as a whole, it is much more than that.
http://tatoeba.org/eng
GlobalVoices
いろんな意見が読めるサイト
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/17/japan-japanese-language-in-the-age-of-english/
Free English Teaching and Learning Materials for ESL
このサイトは開発途上(β版)ですが、無料でご使用になれます 。
少しでも日本の児童英語教育のお役に立てば幸いです。
PML責任者:峯慎一 フォニックスが学べる
http://www.phonicsmedialab.org/
感動を英語で楽しむためには、感動を生む素晴らしい英文にお目にかからないとだめです。
http://eigo.undo.jp/
高校の英語教育について気ままに書いていきます。 If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. - John Dewey
http://blue-enzo.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/cat31208206/index.html
出来悪娘に教えた英語
このサイトは経済的理由や地理的理由により
予備校にいけない人のために作りました。
受験英語の盲点を集めてあるので
予備校に行っているのと同じ効果があると思います。
http://yakudatuyakudatu.seesaa.net/archives/200809-1.html
JGram is dedicated to helping people learn to speak Japanese, in the most effective interactive way: by communicating, sharing knowledge, and talking between Japanese and non-native speakers. This is an interactive community where you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge to our growing database of Japanese grammar.
http://dev.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=compare
英語辞書
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/collocations-lists.htm
On this page you can find a few short lists of collocations to give you more of an idea about them. Many good learner's dictionaries show collocations associated with specific words. There are also dictionaries of collocations, though these are more difficult to find.
TheFreeDictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Thesaurus
On this page you can find a few short lists of collocations to give you more of an idea about them. Many good learner's dictionaries show collocations associated with specific words. There are also dictionaries of collocations, though these are more difficult to find.
TheFreeDictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Thesaurus
日曜日, 7月 01, 2007
Morita Therapy
Morita Therapy directs one's attention receptively to what reality brings in each moment. Simple acceptance of what is allows for active responding to what needs doing. Most therapies strive to reduce symptoms. Morita therapy, however, aims at building character to enable one to take action responsively in life regardless of symptoms, natural fears, and wishes. Character is determined by behavior, by what one does. Dogmatic patterns of collapse are replaced with the flexibility to call upon courage and empowerment. Decisions become grounded in purpose rather than influenced by the fluid flow of feelings.
In Morita Therapy, character is developed by cultivating mindfulness, knowing what is controllable and what is not controllable, and seeing what is so without attachment to expectations. Knowing what one is doing, knowing what the situation is requiring, and knowing the relationship between the two are quintessential to self-validation, effective living, and personal fulfillment. Character is developed as one moves from being feeling-centered to being purpose-centered. A feeling-centered person attends to feelings to such an extent that the concern for self-protection reigns over decisions and perceptions. Given the human condition, change, pain, and pleasure are natural experiences. Indeed, emotions are a rich type of experience and a valuable source of information. Feelings are acknowledged even when what is to be done requires not acting on them. Constructive action is no longer put on hold in order to process or cope with symptoms or feelings. The individual can focus on the full scope of the present moment as the guide for determining what needs to be done.
“Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.”
—Shoma Morita, M.D.
Ultimately, the successful student of Morita therapy learns to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground his behavior in reality and the purpose of the moment. Cure is not defined by the alleviation of discomfort or the attainment of some ideal feeling state (which the philosophy of this approach opposes), but by taking constructive action in one’s life which helps one to live a full and meaningful existence and not be ruled by one’s emotional state.
An Introduction to Morita Therapy Methods
As noted above, the term “Morita Therapy” refers to a psychological treatment system that was developed by a Japanese psychiatrist, Dr. Shoma Morita. His groundbreaking work was first published in Japan in 1928. Like Sigmund Freud’s works which were developed for the Austrian culture in an earlier time, pure Morita Therapy had its greatest applications to a Japanese culture almost one hundred years ago.
People from different times and cultures actually do think differently. Human thought processes are not all universal within our species, but vary significantly depending upon by whom we are raised, and where we grow up and live. Having said that, there are aspects of our humanity that do not change and are as much a part of us as spots on a leopard. Whether living in the savannah of Africa or a New York zoo, leopards all have spots. People in 1920’s Japan had similar emotional response to stress and life’s challenges as do modern-day westerners. The response of individuals from different times and cultures (and hence their treatment) must be adapting and evolving over time and in different places to fit into the context of their daily lives.
Morita Therapy Methods has brought Dr. Morita’s original ingenious thinking to the west and adapted it to modern western minds and culture. For example, the original Morita treatment process has the patient spend their first week of treatment isolated in a room without any outside stimulation – no books, no television, no therapy other than being alone with their own thoughts. Modern day benefits providers are unlikely to see the ancient wisdom of paying for people who are attempting learn to better face the challenges of life, to spend a week alone sitting in a hospital bed. Obviously, modifications to the original process that still remained consistent with the valuable, proven, underlying principles needed to be developed. Indeed, the Morita Therapy MethodsSM approach is the culmination of that work.
Original Morita Therapy was developed for what was referred to back then as “anxiety-based disorders”. Just as civilizations change through time, medical and psychological cultures evolve, and so do our diagnostic definitions. What Dr. Morita defined back then as Shinkeishitsu (an anxiety-based disorder), today has a much broader definition that considers not just anxiety, but life situations in which modern westerners find themselves. Most of us at one time or another are living in a world of Shinkeishitsu, where we become lost in a quagmire of stress, pain (physical, psychological, or both) and the aftermath of trauma (physical, psychological or both).
The Shinkeishitsu Phenomenon is a quagmire just like quicksand. Sometimes we can escape its clutches alone and quickly. Other times we sink if someone doesn’t extend a rescuing lifeline. Depending on the situation, the depth of the quicksand, and the strength of the sinking person at that time, not just any life line will serve the purpose of facilitating the rescue.
MTM is structured for the person who needs a guide for self-rescue from the pain that life gives all of us at times. It is not a cure-all for everyone. As self rescue from a physical quagmire takes work, sweat, and a lot of thought; so does emancipation from, and adaptation to, psychological and physical pain. It is not easy. When we find ourselves waist deep and sinking, it does no good to complain about the unfairness of it all. Emancipation requires personal commitment and action – not whining. MTM helps you find, and use, a well of inner strength deep within you that enables you to make powerful changes in your life.
Morita Therapy Methods (MTM) is an amalgamation of Eastern treatment methods applied to the Western mind. The developers have succeeded in making Zen-based treatment methods palatable to, and understandable by, modern people of the western world.
MTM is roughly divided into four basic areas of treatment – each is a clinically-proven version of Dr. Morita’s original treatment methods. In addition to the four basic areas of treatment, you will be introduced to adjunct areas of Morita Therapy Methods that are designed to improve your well-being.
The Four Areas of Treatment: Phase one is the “rest phase”. It is a period of learning to separate ourselves from the minute-by-minute barrage of the constant assault on our senses and thought processes by a loud and intrusive world. We learn to turn off the television, close the door temporarily to demanding work, well-meaning friends, and yes, even family. We use the solitude to meditate with simple, non-religious based meditation. Though this simple meditation we learn to re-familiarize ourselves with the warm and healing peace that has been beaten out of us by work stress, the media, psychological and physical pain. Yes, you can have profound meditation even if experiencing profound pain.
Phase two introduces us to “light and monotonous work that is conducted in silence”. One of the keystones of this stage of self-treatment is journal writing. Our thoughts and feelings come to us in indistinguishable waves and flood our minds. Writing in our personal journals helps us learn to separate our thoughts from our feelings and define their different effects on our lives. In this phase we also go outside… outside of ourselves and out of the house and begin a reconnection with nature. We leave the solitude of Phase one and go out of doors. We breathe the fresh air and feel the sun on our faces. We walk. We walk and breathe. We walk, breathe and reconnect with the world of nature that has been shut out of our lives by pain and stagnation for weeks, months, even years. We move from darkness to light in both figurative and literal ways.
Phase three is one of more strenuous work. Dr. Morita had his patients engage in hard physical work outdoors. This is what we call the “chopping wood” phase. For people with physical injuries, it is the phase where you move from passive treatment given to you by others (i.e. chiropractic, massage and pain medicine) to learning to begin healing yourself though a stretch and strength oriented physical therapy program. MTM incorporates moving from being treated to learning self-treatment in both the physical and psychological realms. It is hard, it hurts, and it will be a challenge to persevere in the beginning, but if you are ever going to move from being the treated victim to being the recovering survivor this step must occur.
Depending upon the depth and nature of injury (of spirit, mind or body), Phase three can be short or long. For some it becomes a part of daily life – forever. Some pain resolves, some pain needs to be managed. The beneficial aspect of this phase of treatment is that it also encourages the engagement of what we now understand is the right side of the brain. The recovering survivor is encouraged to spend time in creating art----writing, painting, wood carving – whatever puts them into contact with the creative aspects of their humanity.
Phase four is when Dr. Morita would send patients outside of the hospital setting. They would apply what they had learned in the first three phases and use it to help the with the challenge of reintegration into the non-treatment world. This is the phase where the patient learns to integrate a new lifestyle of meditation, physical activity, clearer thinking, more ordered living, and a renewed relationship with the natural world. They are not returning to their pre-injury or pre-illness lifestyle. Instead, they will integrate their “new self” into the imposed set of changes brought about by their trauma, pain and limitations. As re-integration into the world outside of treatment brings with it some unanticipated challenges, the survivor returns to the materials they studied and perhaps even the counsel of their teacher to find coping skills that will allow them to progress further and further on the journey of recovery.
Right up front, – each of us needs to get it clear in our own mind that it is not the same life, it is not fair, it is not what the individual asked for (or even more frustrating what they worked for) but…it is what it is. If you want to bravely challenge yourself to go to that deep well of your own inner strength and use it to escape from the quicksand, we are ready to extend a lifeline and aid you in self-rescue.
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In Morita Therapy, character is developed by cultivating mindfulness, knowing what is controllable and what is not controllable, and seeing what is so without attachment to expectations. Knowing what one is doing, knowing what the situation is requiring, and knowing the relationship between the two are quintessential to self-validation, effective living, and personal fulfillment. Character is developed as one moves from being feeling-centered to being purpose-centered. A feeling-centered person attends to feelings to such an extent that the concern for self-protection reigns over decisions and perceptions. Given the human condition, change, pain, and pleasure are natural experiences. Indeed, emotions are a rich type of experience and a valuable source of information. Feelings are acknowledged even when what is to be done requires not acting on them. Constructive action is no longer put on hold in order to process or cope with symptoms or feelings. The individual can focus on the full scope of the present moment as the guide for determining what needs to be done.
“Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.”
—Shoma Morita, M.D.
Ultimately, the successful student of Morita therapy learns to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground his behavior in reality and the purpose of the moment. Cure is not defined by the alleviation of discomfort or the attainment of some ideal feeling state (which the philosophy of this approach opposes), but by taking constructive action in one’s life which helps one to live a full and meaningful existence and not be ruled by one’s emotional state.
An Introduction to Morita Therapy Methods
As noted above, the term “Morita Therapy” refers to a psychological treatment system that was developed by a Japanese psychiatrist, Dr. Shoma Morita. His groundbreaking work was first published in Japan in 1928. Like Sigmund Freud’s works which were developed for the Austrian culture in an earlier time, pure Morita Therapy had its greatest applications to a Japanese culture almost one hundred years ago.
People from different times and cultures actually do think differently. Human thought processes are not all universal within our species, but vary significantly depending upon by whom we are raised, and where we grow up and live. Having said that, there are aspects of our humanity that do not change and are as much a part of us as spots on a leopard. Whether living in the savannah of Africa or a New York zoo, leopards all have spots. People in 1920’s Japan had similar emotional response to stress and life’s challenges as do modern-day westerners. The response of individuals from different times and cultures (and hence their treatment) must be adapting and evolving over time and in different places to fit into the context of their daily lives.
Morita Therapy Methods has brought Dr. Morita’s original ingenious thinking to the west and adapted it to modern western minds and culture. For example, the original Morita treatment process has the patient spend their first week of treatment isolated in a room without any outside stimulation – no books, no television, no therapy other than being alone with their own thoughts. Modern day benefits providers are unlikely to see the ancient wisdom of paying for people who are attempting learn to better face the challenges of life, to spend a week alone sitting in a hospital bed. Obviously, modifications to the original process that still remained consistent with the valuable, proven, underlying principles needed to be developed. Indeed, the Morita Therapy MethodsSM approach is the culmination of that work.
Original Morita Therapy was developed for what was referred to back then as “anxiety-based disorders”. Just as civilizations change through time, medical and psychological cultures evolve, and so do our diagnostic definitions. What Dr. Morita defined back then as Shinkeishitsu (an anxiety-based disorder), today has a much broader definition that considers not just anxiety, but life situations in which modern westerners find themselves. Most of us at one time or another are living in a world of Shinkeishitsu, where we become lost in a quagmire of stress, pain (physical, psychological, or both) and the aftermath of trauma (physical, psychological or both).
The Shinkeishitsu Phenomenon is a quagmire just like quicksand. Sometimes we can escape its clutches alone and quickly. Other times we sink if someone doesn’t extend a rescuing lifeline. Depending on the situation, the depth of the quicksand, and the strength of the sinking person at that time, not just any life line will serve the purpose of facilitating the rescue.
MTM is structured for the person who needs a guide for self-rescue from the pain that life gives all of us at times. It is not a cure-all for everyone. As self rescue from a physical quagmire takes work, sweat, and a lot of thought; so does emancipation from, and adaptation to, psychological and physical pain. It is not easy. When we find ourselves waist deep and sinking, it does no good to complain about the unfairness of it all. Emancipation requires personal commitment and action – not whining. MTM helps you find, and use, a well of inner strength deep within you that enables you to make powerful changes in your life.
Morita Therapy Methods (MTM) is an amalgamation of Eastern treatment methods applied to the Western mind. The developers have succeeded in making Zen-based treatment methods palatable to, and understandable by, modern people of the western world.
MTM is roughly divided into four basic areas of treatment – each is a clinically-proven version of Dr. Morita’s original treatment methods. In addition to the four basic areas of treatment, you will be introduced to adjunct areas of Morita Therapy Methods that are designed to improve your well-being.
The Four Areas of Treatment: Phase one is the “rest phase”. It is a period of learning to separate ourselves from the minute-by-minute barrage of the constant assault on our senses and thought processes by a loud and intrusive world. We learn to turn off the television, close the door temporarily to demanding work, well-meaning friends, and yes, even family. We use the solitude to meditate with simple, non-religious based meditation. Though this simple meditation we learn to re-familiarize ourselves with the warm and healing peace that has been beaten out of us by work stress, the media, psychological and physical pain. Yes, you can have profound meditation even if experiencing profound pain.
Phase two introduces us to “light and monotonous work that is conducted in silence”. One of the keystones of this stage of self-treatment is journal writing. Our thoughts and feelings come to us in indistinguishable waves and flood our minds. Writing in our personal journals helps us learn to separate our thoughts from our feelings and define their different effects on our lives. In this phase we also go outside… outside of ourselves and out of the house and begin a reconnection with nature. We leave the solitude of Phase one and go out of doors. We breathe the fresh air and feel the sun on our faces. We walk. We walk and breathe. We walk, breathe and reconnect with the world of nature that has been shut out of our lives by pain and stagnation for weeks, months, even years. We move from darkness to light in both figurative and literal ways.
Phase three is one of more strenuous work. Dr. Morita had his patients engage in hard physical work outdoors. This is what we call the “chopping wood” phase. For people with physical injuries, it is the phase where you move from passive treatment given to you by others (i.e. chiropractic, massage and pain medicine) to learning to begin healing yourself though a stretch and strength oriented physical therapy program. MTM incorporates moving from being treated to learning self-treatment in both the physical and psychological realms. It is hard, it hurts, and it will be a challenge to persevere in the beginning, but if you are ever going to move from being the treated victim to being the recovering survivor this step must occur.
Depending upon the depth and nature of injury (of spirit, mind or body), Phase three can be short or long. For some it becomes a part of daily life – forever. Some pain resolves, some pain needs to be managed. The beneficial aspect of this phase of treatment is that it also encourages the engagement of what we now understand is the right side of the brain. The recovering survivor is encouraged to spend time in creating art----writing, painting, wood carving – whatever puts them into contact with the creative aspects of their humanity.
Phase four is when Dr. Morita would send patients outside of the hospital setting. They would apply what they had learned in the first three phases and use it to help the with the challenge of reintegration into the non-treatment world. This is the phase where the patient learns to integrate a new lifestyle of meditation, physical activity, clearer thinking, more ordered living, and a renewed relationship with the natural world. They are not returning to their pre-injury or pre-illness lifestyle. Instead, they will integrate their “new self” into the imposed set of changes brought about by their trauma, pain and limitations. As re-integration into the world outside of treatment brings with it some unanticipated challenges, the survivor returns to the materials they studied and perhaps even the counsel of their teacher to find coping skills that will allow them to progress further and further on the journey of recovery.
Right up front, – each of us needs to get it clear in our own mind that it is not the same life, it is not fair, it is not what the individual asked for (or even more frustrating what they worked for) but…it is what it is. If you want to bravely challenge yourself to go to that deep well of your own inner strength and use it to escape from the quicksand, we are ready to extend a lifeline and aid you in self-rescue.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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