Finding the Right OCD Treatment
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Mindfulness: CBT, MBCT, and Trying to Think a Feeling Away
You can learn to relate more skillfully to your emotions using mindfulness. A common mistake that we make, however, is depending on our rational, problem-solving mind to fix negative emotions.…
From CBT to Mindfulness or MBCT
There are many therapeutic approaches that help decrease human distress and suffering. In this article, I will talk about two approaches, including a mindfulness practice, that have been influential and…
How to Overcome Your Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
About seven percent of the population in the U.S. suffer from social anxiety. You are not alone. If you are at an event with a hundred people it is very…
Would You Rather Be Right or Happy?
The Chinese Finger Trap Have you ever tried a Chinese finger trap? It's fun but frustrating. The fun comes as you learn a lesson in the futility of an unwise…
Where Was I Just Then? Mindfulness
Mindfulness: Identifying our thoughts, images and automatic reactivity to them. Seeing our thoughts instead of being our thoughts. Paying attention Virtual Changing Reality For many years as I ate a…
What is mindfulness meditation?
What is meditation? The Pali word for meditation is "Bhavana," which means "to make grow" or "to develop." What is mindfulness? Mindfulness meditation is what comes from paying attention to something…
What Mindful Meditation Practice is Not
There are many myths and misunderstandings regarding what a mindful meditation practice is. So let's start from the end. I'll explain what I mean by starting from the end. I…