--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodle...@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote:
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> > I find it's helpful for meditation practitioners learn to work with
> > difficult emotions as part of their practice. Just "transcending"
> > them is not necessarily going to make them better. Non-sectarian
> > meditation forms like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) are
> > very helpful in this regard. They help people learn to be mindful of
> > various mental states: anger and pleasure, greed or the absence of
> > greed, etc. and to learn through experience that thoughts (no matter
> > how charged) are not facts.
In a quick drive-by -- (perhaps "fly-by -- at 5000 feet) this sounds as if it
may have similarities to ACT -
"Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT ('ACT' is spoken as a single word,
not as separate initials,) a branch of cognitive-behavioral therapy, is an
empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and
mindfulness strategies together with commitment and behavior change strategies
to increase psychological flexibility."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_therapy
http://www.amazon.com/Acceptance-Commitment-Therapy-Experiential-Approach/dp/1572309555
I have had the book for several years -- it is rather dense in parts and I have
not digested all of it, but I find some its key principles
useful.
