Thoughts Are NOT Reality

This podcast episode is about exploring the relationship between thoughts, psychopathology, and healing. We know from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that the thoughts one has directly influence the emotions one experiences. If someone thinks a positive thought, it will elicit a positive emotion, and if someone thinks a negative thought, it will elicit a negative emotion. Whether or not someone struggles with mental illness, a difficulty with the human condition is finding the right way to handle negative thoughts. Our different psychotherapies that fall under the cognitive behavioral umbrella (for example, DBT, ACT, Exposure Therapy, etc) all have their own ways of handling negative thought patterns that lead to emotions and behavioral patterns that are not self-serving. Despite the empirical efficacy of all these approaches to working with negative thoughts, drawing from the ancient spiritual wisdom of the various monks and yogis, they go further than what these approaches can do. Yogis, monks, and mystics alike speak about a way of being that transcends thoughts altogether, and that actually clinging to thoughts (good or bad!) will ultimately lead to suffering. To hear more about this, feel free to click the link below:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoughts-are-not-reality/id1864222533?i=1000752375054