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Bringing Buddhism to the therapist’s couch

Life Examined

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How Meditation Can Help You Dealing With Unexpected, Difficult Things

In our culture, there's a kind of rush to normal when bad things happen. There are supposedly the five stages that elizabeth colbeross outlined for dealing with grief and then we're supposed to be over it. But my experience as a therapist with all kinds of people who have had all kinds of unexpected, difficult things happen, is that there's really no play book for how it's going to go. They they come, they come unbidden, you know, in unexpected ways. And you have to learn, which therapy can really help with. So meditation sort of gives you the technology, i've how to settle into the a hard changes that we're all subject to.

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