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Today I am going to talk about non-identification with one’s own thoughts and feelings in more detail. I have discussed non-identification in session three of the six-session stress management programme, which you can find on the clinic website. And I take this opportunity to discuss this topic further in greater depths. Traditionally our Being has been understood in terms of it’s three components that is – the body, the mind and the soul, but with the advent of science, the concept of soul was discarded as it was a religious concept and could not be proved scientifically. As a result…
My name is Kishore Chandiramani and I work as a consultant psychiatrist in Staffordshire, England. I am going to talk about the experience of impermanence in this session. This session takes us further from what I’ve already discussed on this topic in the session one of the six-session stress management program. The practice of impermanence is borrowed from the traditions of Vipassana meditation which was taught by Buddha more than 2500 years ago. It encourages us to live with the thought that everything in this world is temporary and, instead of seeing this nature-of-things as good or bad we must…
Have you ever said or done anything that was unintentional and out of character for you, and you regretted it later on? A moment of madness. Or the opposite of it, you ended up saying the right thing at the spur of the moment without giving it a proper thought. How do you explain this? Do you feel fully responsible for such occurrences? Is it an impulse from your unconscious mind breaking through into your conscious mind due to its sheer force? or something external triggering things inside you or this external force or energy taking charge of your conscious…