Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment
Here is a recommended YouTube video by our counsellor Christine Ferch.
Applying mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to treatment when someone is struggling with depression.
According to positive psychology (PositivePsychology.com, 2020) …
“The thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we experience every day shape the nature of our reality.”
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
Countless hours have been spent debating and discussing the implications of quotes like this from Roman Emporer and philosopher Marcus Aurelius. The idea holds as much truth now as it did nearly 2,000 years ago, and can open a seemingly bottomless rabbit hole of questions about the nature of the human mind.
Marcus Aurelius
Are we what we think, or are we the entity that thinks? Can we change our very nature by focusing on changing our thoughts? We aren’t what we think because just because you lost your car keys doesn’t mean you are always forgetful. I may think it might be easier to ease financial struggles by robbing a bank but clearly the thought about robbing the bank isn’t necessarily something I will do. I may have watched a movie the night before, about bank robbers that got away with lots of money, making them wealthy. We may think it but it doesn’t necessarily mean this is what we are going to do.
We won’t follow that rabbit hole today, but we will work from a generally accepted assumption that our thoughts define our reality and that we can take control of this reality and make adjustments to it that can enhance our quality of life.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is one tool that can help us learn to recognize and understand our thought and feeling patterns, with the goal of creating new, more effective patterns.
YouTube Info:
University of California Television (UCTV)583K subscribersSUBSCRIBEDDr. Stuart Eisendrath, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the UCSF Depression Center, explores alternatives to treating depression that include cognitive therapy and cognitive mindfulness-based therapy, a new technique that blends mindfulness meditation and cognitive therapy techniques to lessen depression, particularly in individuals with recurrent episodes. Recorded on 03/27/2012. [6/2012] [Show ID: 23799] Science of the Mind: How the Brain Works to Regulate Mood, Emotions and Stress — Mini Medical School for the Public Presented by UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (https://www.uctv.tv/series/695) Explore More Health & Medicine on UCTV (https://www.uctv.tv/health)
You may also want to check out our other articles on mindfulness too. Here is more: https://www.orchardvalleycounselling.ca/mindfulness-meditation/
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