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Bruce Tift: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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Anxiety Producing Experiences - Do I Commit to the Truth?

Anxiety comes and goes, but everybody I've talked with pretty much has found that the it's hard to even recall a day in which they haven't felt some experience of anxiety. So from a Western therapy point of view, anxiety is usually understood as an indication that deeper levels of vulnerability are being forced into our awareness. Most of us spend an incredible amount of energy trying to stay out of the direct recognition of openness. As long as we have egoic process that we're identified with, we will experience that as anxiety.

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