Thought Management

Tenets

Suffering is caused by cravings & aversions

Meditation is a means to end suffering

Happiness and well-being are the natural state

Past and Future are irrelevant, only Now matters

Karma accumulation leads to reincarnation until Buddhahood

The notion that "I" is separate from other reality is an illusion

Tenets

Thoughts mediate stimuli

Psychological distress is caused by distorted thoughts

Questioning the validity / usefulness of thoughts is healthy

Letting go / not participating in stressful thoughts is healthy

Practices

Byron Katie's "The Work / Inquiry"

Judith Beck's "Beck Diet"

NLP has some CT commonality

Qualities

Sapience

Self-awareness

Perceive relationships to environment

Types

Access Consc.

Memory access

Behavior control

Reasoning

Phenomonol Consc.

Simply experience

Unrelated to behavior

Qualia = properties of sensory experience

Existence Perception

Self-Consc.

Self-Awareness

human imagination has no physical boundaries

motivated by hope

Altered States

intoxicants & drugs

Sleep

Metacognition

thinking about thinking

Systemics

"We are what we think about all day long." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An unquestioned mind is the only source of suffering" Byron Katie

Inner Critic

Self Talk

Topic rumination

Filtering

Catastrophizing

Personaliztion

Polarization

Grudges / Battle Planning

Practices

Be aware of thought quality

Question validty/usefulness

Recognize "Shoulds" for what they are