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DBT Mindfulness Skill: An Overview of Wisemind and the What & How Skills

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Learn how the DBT Mindfulness skills can help in situations where you want to lash out and act impulsively. By using the What and How skills you can learn to identify your emotional and reasonable mind and choose to live in a Wise mind.

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Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong

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What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.

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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be as good as pills at stopping people relapsing after recovering from major bouts of depression, according to a study.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was developed from mindfulness techniques, which encourage individuals to pay more attention to the present moment, combined with cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), specifically to try to help people who have recurring depression.

It teaches people to recognise that negative thoughts and feelings will return, but that they can disengage from them. Rather than worrying constantly about them, people can become aware of them, understand them and accept them, and avoid being dragged down into a spiral leading back to depression.

Current best practice, endorsed by Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) is to encourage people with a history of recurrent depression to remain on antidepressants for at least two years.

However, some are very reluctant to keep taking pills, while others find their depression comes back when they finally stop using the tablets.

The trial, published in The Lancet, a medical journal, involved a group of 424 adults from GP practices in the south-west of England, who were willing to try either the pills or the therapy. Half were randomly allotted to each. Those assigned to mindfulness had eight group sessions of more than two hours plus daily home practice and the option of four follow-up sessions over a year. The course involved mindfulness training, group discussion and cognitive behaviour exercises. The patients gradually came off their medication. Those assigned to the other group stayed on the tablets for two years.

The relapse rates in the two groups were similar, with 44% in the mindfulness group and 47% for those on the drugs. In each group there were five adverse events, including two deaths.

The researchers had thought the study might show that therapy was more effective than pills, based on their earlier work. Lead author Willem Kuyken, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford, said: "That was our hypothesis. It was based on our pilot study in 2008. There was a suggestion that MBCT might do better than medication. The reality is that it was not superior to medication."

However, they established that mindfulness-based therapy is equally as good as drugs, which could offer a new option for those who do not want to be on medication for years. Co-author Prof Richard Byng, from the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, said: "Currently, maintenance antidepressant medication is the key treatment for preventing relapse, reducing the likelihood of relapse or recurrence by up to two-thirds when taken correctly.

"However, there are many people who, for a number of different reasons, are unable to keep on a course of medication for depression. Moreover, many people do not wish to remain on medication for indefinite periods, or cannot tolerate its side-effects."

Nigel Reed, from Sidmouth, Devon, who took part in the trial, said: "Mindfulness gives me a set of skills which I use to keep well in the long term. Rather than relying on the continuing use of antidepressants, mindfulness puts me in charge, allowing me to take control of my own future, to spot when I am at risk and to make the changes I need to stay well."

The study also showed that the therapy might work better than pills for those who have some of the most troubled histories and are at the highest risk of relapse. It was found to have protected people with increased risk because of a background of childhood abuse. The paper said: "Perhaps MBCT confers resilience in this group at highest risk because patients learn skills that address some of the underlying mechanisms of relapse or recurrence."

Kuyken said he expected Nice to look at the study when it convenes shortly to revise its guidelines on recurrent depression.

In a commentary with the study in The Lancet, Prof Roger Mulder, from the University of Otago in New Zealand, said the findings had substantial significance. He suggested that because it is group therapy, which reduces the costs involved, it may be possible to offer MBCT as a choice to GP patients. He said: "We ... have a promising new treatment that is reasonably cost-effective and applicable to the large group of patients with recurrent depression.

"Depression remains a disabling condition with high prevalence and a large clinical burden. Despite the increased use of drugs, the long-term outcome of mood disorders has not improved in the modern era. Having an alternative non-medication strategy to reduce relapse is an important means to help patients with depression."
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Mindfulness as effective as pills for treating recurrent depression - study

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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be as good as pills at stopping people relapsing after recovering from major bouts of depression, according to a study. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was developed from mindfulness techniques, which encourage individuals to pay more attention to the present moment, combined with cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), specifically to try to help people who have recurring depression.

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We developed a smartphone technology to sample people's ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions and found (i) that people are thinking about what is not happening almost as often as they are thinking about what is and (ii) found that doing so typically makes them unhappy.

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Can we break bad habits by being more curious about them? Psychiatrist Judson Brewer studies the relationship between mindfulness and addiction -- from smoking to overeating to all those other things we do even though we know they’re bad for us. Learn more about the mechanism of habit development and discover a simple but profound tactic that might help you beat your next urge to smoke, snack or check a text while driving.

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Dan Harris, ABC anchor and author of 10% Happier, reveals the top 3 misconceptions about meditation and explains why anyone--even you!--can benefit from it. Check out our infographic: The Skeptic's Guide to Meditation: http://hpfy.co/1NknHsA Try Happify's Science-Based Activities and Games http://www.happify.com (also available on iPhone and Android) Like Happify on Facebook http://hpfy.co/195negJ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @Happify Buy Dan Harris's book, 10% Happier, now available in paperback!

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The Two Arrows:  Pain and Suffering, Primary and Secondary Emotions

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Who Knows? The Farmer's Son:

Fortune or Misfortune?

One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and desired to lift its burden. So he left his horse loose to go the mountains and live out the rest of its life.

Soon after, neighbors from the nearby village visited, offering their condolences and said, "What a shame. Now your only horse is gone. How unfortunate you are!. You must be very sad. How will you live, work the land, and prosper?" The farmer replied: "Who knows? We shall see".

Two days later the old horse came back now rejuvenated after meandering in the mountainsides while eating the wild grasses. He came back with twelve new younger and healthy horses which followed the old horse into the corral.

Word got out in the village of the old farmer's good fortune and it wasn't long before people stopped by to congratulate the farmer on his good luck. "How fortunate you are!" they exclaimed. You must be very happy!" Again, the farmer softly said, "Who knows? We shall see."

At daybreak on the next morning, the farmer's only son set off to attempt to train the new wild horses, but the farmer's son was thrown to the ground and broke his leg. One by one villagers arrived during the day to bemoan the farmer's latest misfortune. "Oh, what a tragedy! Your son won't be able to help you farm with a broken leg. You'll have to do all the work yourself, How will you survive? You must be very sad". they said. Calmly going about his usual business the farmer answered, "Who knows? We shall see"

Several days later a war broke out. The Emperor's men arrived in the village demanding that young men come with them to be conscripted into the Emperor's army. As it happened the farmer's son was deemed unfit because of his broken leg. "What very good fortune you have!!" the villagers exclaimed as their own young sons were marched away. "You must be very happy." "Who knows? We shall see!", replied the old farmer as he headed off to work his field alone.

As time went on the broken leg healed but the son was left with a slight limp. Again the neighbors came to pay their condolences. "Oh what bad luck. Too bad for you"! But the old farmer simply replied; "Who knows? We shall see."

As it turned out the other young village boys had died in the war and the old farmer and his son were the only able bodied men capable of working the village lands. The old farmer became wealthy and was very generous to the villagers. They said: "Oh how fortunate we are, you must be very happy", to which the old farmer replied, "Who knows? We shall see!"

Commentary:What More Can Be Said?

Every event is part of a larger whole. The meaning and nature of any event, what is judged to be "good" or "bad," is only relative to the changing circumstances and conditions surrounding it. How often do we take into consideration the "Whole" picture?

Fundamentally, people become stuck or stagnant by closing down their hearts, their neural circuits - ceasing to listen to their deepest creative evolutionary potential for guidance. Often people learn to resist change by utilizing the intellect, will power, and ego, trying to control, suppress/repress, and manipulate their innate evolutionary potential remains superficial and dull. Man 's confused mind thus creates an prison, inner war, tension, and conflict which impedes, confines, and restricts his greater expression.

Rather human beings change and evolve by emptying the mind and opening the heart - activating dormant neural evolutionary circuits, not closing them down or restricting them. It can be said that we change our hearts by emptying our heads. That opens the heart. When the heart leads, that takes into consideration a greater *REALITY* than mere conceptual reality which is also much more intelligent and functional (that is, when it is consulted) than the intellectual mental function.

This classic story of the farmer's son is not one of passivity, but rather about how to be free from (unattached to) the limited results of logical efforts - conditional happiness (raga/sukha) and unhappiness (dvesa/duhkha) stemming from ignorance (avidya) which is obstructed vision seeing the small picture devoid of primary causes. Whatever bothers us the most are the things we have to let go of - they are reflections of an inner conflict. All of our problems - even our health problems-are related to disturbances of our emotions.

We create our problems and diseases in the mind through mental reactive judgments, intellectually based evaluation processes, and conclusions and then jump into those limited reference frames as ersatz "reality", It is not that suffering or unhappiness is an illusion, but rather they are based on a false notion. False notions exist and must be recognized as such in order for us to liberate them.

In the everyday scheme of things, we organize and plan our life on strategies centered upon secondary causes and events, but how often do we take into consideration the larger picture and causative trends (past and future). Such is not accessible to ordinary intellectual methodology

When it comes to emotional situations, we try to create ideal situations, but how often do we know the cause of happiness and unhappiness which are after all mental states, without knowing our mind? The normal discursive mind is constantly chattering, maneuvering, craving, thinking and planning while trying desperately to obtain what we want/like or escape/avoid what we do not like. But no matter what we do, we can't control our future that way, because there are too many factors. There is no point in being so overly invested in planning a future that we can't control without taking into consideration the whole situation (and that includes primary causes)..

We do what we have to do to live our everyday lives, but we should not be attached to the outcome, or spend so much time and emotion on controlling a future that can't be controlled. Do your best, and leave the rest to the multiverse - consult with it as often as you can, rather than the intellect or Cartesian brain (frontal cortex). Wise men and women are not attached to results, but rather live beyond time in the eternal present. That is here they move from, abide, and live. Whether the result of our actions is negative or positive, we should not be attached to it. We have to let it go and move on. The essential point is to strive to be empty and to let all things go-let the contents of the mind go -- both good and bad-and let the light that illumines the mind flow through us and guide our way. Then we can treat each moment, each situation, as a new beginning. Then, we will be "seeing", hearing, sensing, and feeling from a deeper more open space -- with and from our hearts, so to speak.

The best that we can do, is to do our very best -- to act from that vast space of great happiness and spread/reflect that as best we can. Always do your best in loving happiness! That feels best!

May the very Best Good Fortune be Yours! May All Beings Be Happy and Know the Cause of that Happiness!
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Swara Yoga: Utilizing the Energy Valves at the Nares (swaras) as a Liberation technique

Patanjali's Yoga Sutras; Pada III (Vibhuti Pada), Sutras III.41-46. Also see III.31 commentary on the Kurma Nadi

"Nature's Finer Forces and the Science of Breath (Pranayama Yoga)" was originally published in Sanskrit as "Science of the Breath and the Philosophy of the Tatwas"), by Rama Prasad, is available here in PDF format,

Swara Yoga (according to the Bihar School of Yoga). Much excellent data about Swara Yoga at http://www.swarayoga.org

Bhuta Shuddhi (presented by Swami Rama)

Presentation of Bhuta Shuddhi by Swami Satyasangananada Saraswati

The Stages of Life: Birth, Youth, Old Age, Sickness and Death
The Long Body: Portal to Earth Based Spirituality (includes "TWO TREES" by W. B. Yeats)
Tree Legends Myths, the Central Column, Chakras, and Wisdom Tails

The Tree of Life/Cabala: as related to the yoga chakra system

An Energy Body Approach to Hatha Yoga Asana Practice

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One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and desired to lift its burden. So he left his horse loose to go the mountains and live out the rest of its life.

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I recently learned a great question that's reducing my need to complain or suffer, and I want to share it with you:
"Do you really need to shoot the second arrow?"

If you've ever had something upsetting or disappointing happen, and then you complain, rage, or otherwise wish things were different, read on for relief.

I was walking out of a lovely evening of yoga and chanting. "I'm so excited about an upcoming yoga class next week," I beamed to my friend, Beth.

"It's been cancelled," Beth replied, in a very matter-of-fact way. Since she's part of the organization that organizes the yoga, she had her pulse on the schedule.

"Damn!" I shouted. "Why does this have to be cancelled? I was looking forward to going! Now what am I supposed to do next Saturday night?" I sighed and then continued. "I hate having to reschedule. I had my hopes set on this. This sucks! Who cancelled it?"

Another woman overheard me moaning and complaining to Beth. She cocked her head in a playful way and gently asked, "Do you really need to shoot the second arrow?"

I furrowed my brow. I felt a mixture of confusion and curiosity as I asked, "What's a second arrow?"

Apparently, the Buddhists say that any time we suffer misfortune, two arrows fly our way. The first arrow is the actual bad event, which can can, indeed, cause pain. The second arrow is the suffering. That's actually optional. The second arrow represents our reaction to the bad event. It's the manner in which we chose to respond emotionally.
The concept of the second arrow immediately hit home for me.

A day later, I arrived at my beloved Sunday morning moving meditation practice to dance. Uncharacteristically, the floor of the gym felt as if it was covered in sawdust. Due to an unforeseen circumstance, the setup crew couldn't sweep that floor beforehand. My bare feet felt little nubs of dirt and dust. I started to turn up my nose. But then I just remembered, "Do I really need to shoot the second arrow?"

No. I didn't need to shoot the second arrow.

If I had shot that second arrow, I'd just be shooting myself in the foot. I'd be whining and looking around for other people to commiserate with. I'd be carrying around frustration. That second arrow is poisonous.

So instead of shooting the second arrow, I just danced. Happily.

Sure, sometimes I noticed clumps of dirt, or little scraps of paper on the floor. Honestly, I just told myself, "It is what it is." If I'd really wanted to get a rag, I could've cleaned the floor. But the dirty floor wasn't a game stopper. In fact, later, I found out that a few people who get really sweaty feet found that the dirt actually helped them to avoid slipping.

Me? I danced on the dirty floor. Then, I simply washed my feet afterwards. No extra arrows required.
So, how do you avoid shooting the second arrow?
First, you have to notice the first arrow. So when you're in emotional pain, feel it (especially the sensations of it). I faced the emotional sting of a dance floor that didn't meet my usual cleanliness and comfort standards. I felt the arrow -- in this case, of dirtiness -- on my feet. You might notice your arrows as emotional pains, physical pains, irritations, or frustrations.

Second, you need to catch your impulse to add another arrow. Maybe you want to yell at someone. Or complain. Or look for someone to blame. Just become aware and notice your reaction. It's usually a desire to lash out or to somehow discharge energy. Complaining, for example, is pushing out the frustration and dissipating it, instead of just acknowledging the first arrow. It's actually fine if you shoot the second arrow. You can take it back, later.

Third, ask yourself, "Do I need to shoot the second arrow?" You can ask this either before you shoot the second arrow, or just after it's been shot. The point is to catch yourself adding more pain. That's really more energy that doesn't need to be added.

Fourth, pat yourself on the back for catching yourself, either before or right after shooting the arrow. You're learning a new pattern of response. You'll be able to free up more energy for situations that you can control. But you can always adjust your reaction, even if you can't control what happens to you.
What sensational shifts will you make by not shooting the second arrow?

How do you use this at work? With your family? In traffic? In any stressful situation?

I'd love to hear from you about what you will avoid -- or what you will deliberately change. What happens when you ask yourself, "Do I really need to shoot the second arrow?" Share your story or insight here. I promise to acknowledge you. (I won't shoot any arrows at you, I swear).

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I recently learned a great question that's reducing my need to complain or suffer, and I want to share it with you: "Do you really need to shoot the second arrow?" If you've ever had something upsetting or disappointing happen, and then you complain, rage, or otherwise wish things were different, read on for relief.

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Meditation for Beginners - Featuring Dan Harris and Sharon Salzberg

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Are you interested in meditation, but unsure of how to start a practice on your own? ABC anchor Dan Harris teams up with meditation expert Sharon Salzberg to walk you through the basics.

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