Guest guest Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Hey Monte, It looks very helpful. I'll check it out more later. Thanks for the idea. One Non-BP Recovering Man --- Monte wrote: > Hi all > > I stumbled across a new form of psychotherapy a few days ago. It's a > type of psycotherapy based on Zen and Shinshu Buddhism called 'Morita > Psycotherapy'. It was developed and still practiced in Japan. It > sounds like something that could be very useful in reforming my core > beliefs and behaviours, traumas, memories, etc ie `personality'. Help > me rid myself of nada related trauma. > > The introduction to Morita Therapy from a website: > > Morita Psychotherapy is about outgrowing your problems. Let us be > clear at the outset that I cannot make your problems go away. No one > can. Life brings to all of us problems as well as successes, despair > as well as joy. The Apostle wrote that he had learned to adapt > himself to every type of circumstance, even being in jail. And the > Buddha pointed out the inevitability of loss, sickness, ageing, and > death in human existence. Life cannot be an uninterrupted high. So if > there are bound to be occassional lows it seems sensible to have a > strategy for taking them in stride. > > The same goes for shyness or chronic pain or tension or lethargy or > any disability. If life has brought you such a problem (or even if > you have created that problem yourself) you need to learn how to take > charge of it so you can make the very best of what life allows. > Anyone who promises more arouses my doubts about their ability to > deliver. > > The ideas behind this book have been around for hundreds of years. > They are basically Buddhist, but don't let that fact mislead you. > They are no more religious than the concepts of psychoanalysis or the > power of positive thinking or the principles of the American > Constitution. They are simply the summed up experiences of people who > suffered themselves and treated a lot of other suffering people over > the years. They make good common sense. Some eighty years ago a > Japanese psychiatrist called Morita pulled together some of these > ideas to turn his life and the lives of many of his patients into > demonstrations of the constructive possibilities that lie within us > all. His methods are still practiced in Japan today. I have > translated Morita's thoughts into terms understandable to Westerners > and have added a notion of my own here and there, but the essence > remains unchanged. The principles are as applicable to you and me as > they were to the Japanese of Morita's day and today. We are, after > all, humans. And human suffering is human suffering wherever it is > encountered. > > > Has anyone encountered Morita Psychotherapy before? Have you tried > it? Does it work? Has it been useful for you? Would you recommend me > to try it? I only discovered it recently and I want to find out > whether it is worth looking into. > > If you have never heard of Morita Psychotherapy before I have been > posting about it here: > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HealingPDs/message/76 > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HealingPDs/message/79 > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HealingPDs/message/86 > > Thanks for your help > Monte > > > > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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