101 Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
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Meditation Can Be Sufficient in That
meditation is superior to therapy in that you can tune into subtle holdings. These are harder to get to when you're in a dialogue with say a therapist, because this stuff isn't necessarily verbal or conceptual. It's kind of in our skin. And so we noticed tensions, right? We're doing your meditating, particularly in retreat. But also, I think just in general, you begin to notice tensions we're holding in the body. Then below that, it's related to my muscular tensions related to an emotional holding. My emotional holdings relating to something I've known, but I haven't been able to digest. In that way, tuning in meditatively, conceptually, then all
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