Ed Geraty LCSW-C, LICSW, LCSW INSITE Podcast: Modern Psychotherapy & Eastern/Western Wisdom.

Anatta — literally "non-self" — is one of the three marks of existence in early Buddhist teaching, alongside dukkha and anicca (impermanence), which we'll cover next time. The claim is not that "you" are an illusion in the sense of not existing at all — that's a common misreading. The claim is narrower and more precise: what we call the self is not a single, unchanging,...

If dukkha is the diagnosis, the Eightfold Path is the treatment plan. But treatment plans can look like arbitrary lists until you see the logic connecting the parts. Today: what the eight factors actually are, how they group together, and why the grouping matters more than the number eight.

If dukkha is the diagnosis, the Eightfold Path is the treatment plan. But treatment plans can look like arbitrary lists until you see the logic connecting the parts. Today: what the eight factors actually are, how they group together, and why the grouping matters more than the number eight.

"Secular Buddhism" isn't a single school or lineage — it's more of a stance, taken up by people from different Buddhist backgrounds (Zen, Theravada, Tibetan) who converge on a similar move: treat the Buddha's teaching primarily as a practical method for reducing suffering and living well, rather than as a body of revealed metaphysical truth to be taken on faith.

The Four Noble Truths are typically taught as facts to believe, but the Buddha actually presented them as  four specific task s to perform in daily life.  1. Suffering  (Dukkha) is to be Comprehended  The Task: Acknowledge and understand. The Action: Instead of running away from pain, stress, or dissatisfaction, you look directly at it. You completely accept that suffering is a natural part of hum...

If you walk into a Buddhist temple in much of Asia, you'll often see the Buddha depicted with a halo, sometimes with rays of light, sometimes as one of many past and future Buddhas stretching across cosmic time. That image is a religious icon, built up over centuries. Underneath it — or before it — there was a man. Almost certainly a real one. And the question for today is: what can we actuall...

Imagine going to a doctor who tells you: you're sick, here's what's causing it, here's the good news that it's treatable, and here's the treatment plan. You wouldn't call that a religious creed. You'd call it a diagnosis. Today's talk is about reading the Four Noble Truths that way — not as four things to believe in, but as four moves in a single diagnostic structure, closer to medicine than metap...

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Dare to Live Fully is an audio program created by Ed Geraty that is an inquiry into your Metaprinciples (Your beliefs and opinions} and challenges you to adopt new principles or let go of old outdated ones.

This recording, if listened to regularly, will assist you in letting go of angry reactive states and creating a calm response to difficult situations. As with all of these meditations, do not listen to them while driving or while having to attend to other life tasks.

Use this hypno-meditation regularly so that you can then go through an MRI scan we ease and calmness.

Listen and practice with this meditation to be more easily able to regulate difficult emotions. The more you practice with this meditation the easier it will become.

This hypno-meditation for fear of flying can be used by anyone to assist them in relaxing and reducing fear and anxiety related to flying. Do NOT listen to this meditation when driving or when you have to be alert and responsive to your immediate environment.

From the book Homecoming by John Bradshaw. Healing the Inner Child

Techniques for panic and anxiety

Practice emotional regulation through guided progressive muscle relaxation.

An understanding of how a wounded self image from childhood continues into adulthood.

A discussion of MBCT, mindfulness, psychotherapy, Insight meditation, and cognitive therapy.

An understanding of spiritual emergence and spiritual emergencies.

A booklet for beginning meditators

The infant healing meditation from Homecoming by John Bradshaw

An explanation of Spiritual Emergencies as identified by Stanislov Grof M.D., psychiatrist and one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.

An explanation of my Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy process. 

Thinking can be very obsessive and create difficult mood states. Awareness is the still silence behind our thinking. Join me for a deeper understanding of these experiences.