TOPIC FOR THE Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 Meeting from 7pm – 9pm ET
The focus for review during this meeting is how understanding the various schemas that contribute to
the forming of our “selfing stories” is an important process for investigating and making appropriate
adjustments to the flow of subjective experience as our Awakening practice matures. Peter uses his
decades of training and therapeutic application regarding the discipline of Mindfulness Based
Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to add more understanding of Mindfulness of Feelings and Mindfulness of
Mental Phenomena as a contributing factor for our practice.
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Managing the Selfing Story
During this talk, Peter, a retired psychotherapist, describes the intersection between core Buddhist concepts and a well-researched contemporary psychotherapy approach called Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. He reviews the schema concept that categorizes various cognitive distortions and describes how Mindfulness of Feelings and Mindfulness of Mental Phenomena can be effectively applied to counter these distortions through the cultivation of Mindfulness, Investigation of Mental Phenomena and Right Effort. He suggests that the “selfing story” represents various aspects of the Five Hindrances, and that countering the dysfunctional schemas creates a process that clarifies the mind for further spiritual development, towards Awakening.
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