Personal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training

There are few people in the world who could not benefit from a better understanding of themselves. While it is certainly not enough to begin practicing any sort of therapy on others, a personal program of cognitive behavioral therapy training can help us understand better why we think how we think and do as we [...]

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Dr. Akong Rinpoche – Providing hope and fighting hunger in Nepal and Tibet

Dr. Akong Rinpoche founded ROPKA back in the 1990s in response to the poor conditions of the masses in both Tibet and Nepal as well as across Europe. Dr. Rinpoche (born in 1939) was discovered by a search party seeking the first Akong who had been the Abbott of the Dolma Lhakang monastery in [...]

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Vipassana Means Insight – Vipassana Meditation

It is part of the Theravada meditation tradition in Buddhism. Vipassana meditation is taught to those who wish to gain a better understanding of their inner selves. Vipassana meditation is attributed to Buddha himself and is centered on transformation and observation of ones self through introspection. Samatha meditation is the other pole [...]

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What is Mindfulness and How Can Westerners Understand It?

In recent years, there has been a trend of westerners embracing Eastern philosophies. Ironically enough, the science of western civilization has started to borrow from eastern religious philosophy. Take the example of mindfulness. Mindfulness is entirely an eastern concept, having been derived from Buddhist teachings. Buddha once taught that attaining mindfulness [...]

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Reaching a Higher Plane! Merkaba Meditation

Merkaba meditation is a meditation technique of controlled breathing consisting of eighteen steps. Merkaba means light, spirit and body or the body and spirit wrapped in light. Merkaba is a counter rotating field of light generated by two interposed tetrahedrons. Imagine a three dimensional Star of David. Learning to access your [...]

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Self-Directed Cognitive Therapy Techniques

For any number of reasons, whether it’s a lack of insurance or simply a lack of trust for the psychiatric community, sufferers of depression may not have ready access to the usual medications and therapy sessions that help others maintain a reasonable and balanced life.
There are many basic cognitive therapy techniques, however, which can be [...]

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How to Become a Buddhist

Buddha himself told a man from another religion that had come to try to convert Buddha, “Make a proper investigation first. Proper investigation is good for a well known person like yourself.” If you have any interest you will need to research how to become a Buddhist. In learning how to become [...]

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Address the Anger Issues in Your Children – Meditation for Children

It is interesting to note that when researching third eye meditation or Trataka there is a great deal of mention about how when we are babies that we experience the world at an atomic or molecular level and that it is when our parents begin to create an illusion of the world by naming things [...]

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Thich Nhat Hanh – Curb Your Anger and Feel Better

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, is an excellent book for any American who drives. With road rage increasing and tensions rising in homes across America due to the financial mess due to falling retail sales and mass layoffs the ten verses in Anger should be [...]

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Trataka – Third Eye Meditation

Trataka or third eye meditation is the method by which one can see beyond the normal plane. Buddhism teaches us that we have a third vehicle for sight into the Higher Planes that is located on our forehead between our physical eyes. The method of meditation necessary to achieve this is also known [...]

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