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4 Steps to Reclaiming our Emotions with MBCT
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, also known as MBCT, combines techniques of mindfulness meditation with actively looking into thoughts and feelings that are arising in the present moment.
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Case Study: Projecting the Past onto the Present
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche described how we project our minds onto others, analoguous to how a projector projects its images onto a movie screen. Our habitual thoughts are the movie reel projected onto the people we care for. This analogue is very similar to the concept of projection as described in Western psychology.
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Becoming Friends with the Blues
I wonder if you’ve noticed that when a depressed episode comes on, our bodies feel frozen. Moving feels like trudging through thick molasses, yet the volume of our thoughts are loud and clear: “You’re a loser! You can’t even get Read more…
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A Buddhist Perspective on Neurofeedback
A conversation between Dr. Brod and founder of Buddhist Psychotherapy NY and meditation teacher Natalie Baker on the Buddhist perspective on neurofeedback.
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Working with the Emotions: Hold me please
When I first started meditating, I would sit down and be overcome by a waterfall of thoughts. Thoughts about my clients’ lives. Thoughts about what to do tomorrow. Thoughts about what to eat. Thoughts about the person sitting in front of me. Thoughts about the practice and whether or not I was doing it right. Thoughts about myself, especially those that were doubt-ridden and questioned my basic worth. Like a continual movie playing out, sometimes stuck on the same tape-loop, regurgitating on itself; it often felt like acid reflux of the mind. I would sit down and say “I want to be more available to others and this is why I’m doing this.” And inevitably, the same or a similar splice of the tape loop would re-appear, almost mocking my abilities to ever be able to accomplish this fully. How in the world can I be more available to other people when I can’t even be available to myself? And so the path began…