A big fan of Russ Harris and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) in general, especially after reading the Happiness Trap. If you're not familiar with it, think of it as a way to accept your thoughts and urges, without acting on any which are unhelpful. I've found this incredibly useful during periods of anxiety and stress. Because of COVID, they've made the meditation tracks free to download from the website.
Hopefully this helps some Ozbargainers in a tough year.
Thank you, OP!
Who said the best things in life are free? Wisdom.
Does he use a wobble board in these recordings?
Just to remind all my friends here, Buddha prohibited to sell his teachings at any price. Therefore you can find, free of charge, buddhist teachings of current masters, guided meditation, and even the entirety of his own discourses in English in all types of mediums, including internet these days. He compared himself as a doctor who diagnoses a cause of a dis-ease and offers prescription, a way out. So I am sure this is the ultimate cure for coronavirus.
By the way, I heard one teacher to come up with a new term -karunavirus. Karuna means compassion in Pali, a language buddhist Canon is kept. So I wish you all find true cure from corona virus through karuna virus.
Sincerely
Kindfulness.
Highly recommend Russ Harris' ACT stuff. Use it in my own counselling practice.
That's great! You must be busy in 2020!
Thanks OP!
Thanks for sharing!
Mindfulness is a form of neoliberalism to blame the self for one’s condition
Sadly, due to how unscientific psychology is, it then draws a long bow to try applying mindfulness to physical conditions & diseases
That's (profanity) up mate. Perhaps you should try meditating on why you express blatantly false statements like these in a public forum.
Considering I have training in mindfulness, I have a deeper understanding of its sinister nature.
Interesting that mindfulness is espoused by business & management now
Also have training in mindfulness, and there's little about blaming yourself for your condition. Given how bitter you sound, if you have been trained, maybe you need to re-evaluate how much you paid attention
@ZomboJo: Maybe you need to look a little deeper
I suggest you study (not read) the first half of The Road Less Travelled
@Boogerman: "Confronting and solving problems is a painful process which most of us attempt to avoid. Avoiding resolution results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. Drawing heavily on his own professional experience, Dr M. Scott Peck, a psychiatrist, suggests ways in which facing our difficulties - and suffering through the changes - can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding."
You realise that ACT meshes quite well with that philosophy don't you? Acceptance: making room for painful feelings, urges and sensations, and allowing them to come and go without a struggle.
It sounds like you're targeting the current hot topic of "mindfulness" and using it to distract from pain, and I don't disagree with you there. But ACT fits very well with what Scott Peck proposes here.
There's a good argument to be made in opposition to the workplace "wellness" industry as a tool of neoliberalism to drive greater consumption and worker efficiency, and pass the onus of said "wellbeing" onto the workers while doing nothing to address the material conditions that cause their problems. William Davies' "The Happiness Industry" is an excellent elaboration of that argument, and I highly recommend it.
That's a different issue entirely to the genuine benefits to individuals of psychological therapy, including mindfulness-based ones like ACT. Russ Harris is a great Australian author on the topic. His book "The Happiness Trap", as the title might suggest, describes how seeking happiness and "wellness" through maximising positive emotions (through, e.g., cycles of consumption and seeking approval from others - neoliberalism's answer to the problem) is a fool's game. You'll be happier if you accept that struggling against negative emotions and chasing the next dopamine hit is a worthless pursuit and instead make an effort to live life by your values and experience both the ups and downs of the human experience.
I haven't seen Russ Harris push the line that "mindfulness" can cure physical conditions. I think you'd agree with him on a lot of things.
Also remember folks, psychology pushes the ‘no drugs’ mantra, suggesting that your thinking is the reason for your issues & better thinking is the way out. Such a simplistic lie, because those who espouse it typically have not had true suffering in their own lives & ironically use self-serving confirmation bias to rationalise other’s misfortune
You clearly have no understanding of mindfulness (eastern philosophy) and the western medicine evidence base behind it's use.
Sure, it doesn't change external factors… But it recognises an individual's role in reacting/adapting to these factors.
To minimise it suggests a 'poor me" mentality and to overstate its usefulness suggests a "holier than thou" mentality. That leaves a whole lot of grey (and possible benefits) in the middle.
Your black and white opinion (and therefore thinking) is uninformed and unhelpful and can be a sign of mental illness (concrete thinking!)
There is no golden bullet to happiness or mental health issues… But mindfulness is certainly part of the solution! Sincerely, Dr MadBoffin
Sorry to burst your bubble.
I’m guessing you’ve read one too many self help books.
Maybe try hard science one day. Careful though, it might cause you to start cutting yourself
Has anyone uploaded the files elsewhere? I don't feel like filling in all the personal details to get access!
The site does say to share them freely
de Po Po to da rescue!
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I prefer NT