Buddhist Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Integrating Buddhist Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A lot of people nowadays have thought about starting meditation to improve their mental health, reduce stress or for spiritual reasons. If you're one of those people or someone who has just started I thought I would share a few tips that I have found helpful. Set up a regular time and put it in …
For those of you who are new to the world of psychotherapy I thought I would give a brief introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT as it is more widely known and discuss its connection to Buddhist psychology. When you start looking around for a psychotherapist you'll notice they'll often describe the style or orientation of …
In my last post I wrote about tanha or craving from a Buddhist perspective. I realized after writing that post that I should also write a piece on aversion, as aversion and craving are really two sides of the same coin. Let me explain how that works. Briefly defined, aversion is the strong desire of …
In my last blog post I wrote about The First Noble Truth. The First Noble Truth about life that the Buddha observed is that life is filled with a particular kind of suffering called dukkha. In the Second Noble Truth he described the cause of human suffering as craving. Let's see if we can connect …
When you start studying Buddhism you start running into lists, lots and lots of lists. This probably has a lot to do with Buddhism originating in an oral culture where monks had to remember a ton of religious material entirely by memory. Numbered lists were one way to help give the memory a boost. Rhyming …
Buddhist Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 