Meditative Therapies in Clinical Psychology
Keywords:
Meditation, Mystic Rose Therapy, No-mind Therapy, Born Again Therapy, Dynamic MeditationAbstract
Meditation has born in India (East) and ‘Therapies’ have been developed in the West. Meditation can help a person to come out of depression, anxiety and sufferings.
‘Meditation (Dhyana) is a multidimensional state of awareness where not a single iota of thought exists.’ For being in a state of meditation a person has to purify his or her body, thought and emotion; and become aware of his body, thought and emotion ,then one can be in a state of witnessing (sakshi) which is a core feature of meditation.
The present day individual is so much suppressed, repressed and perverted that without passing through therapies ‘which do cleaning’, it is difficult to be in a state of meditation.
Osho has developed ‘Meditative Therapies’ for purification of body, thought and emotion of the participants, so that they should become ready to be in a state of meditation. These therapies dissolve tensions of the participants. Participants are also able to cathart out all the repressed emotions. These therapies are easy and are very useful, interaction among the meditators are very less. The energy which is created during therapy session, help them to go very deep in meditation. These therapies are: ‘The Mystic Rose Therapy’, ‘No-mindTherapy’, ‘Born Again Therapy’, ‘Dynamic Meditation’ etc.
These meditative therapies have been used to treat many patients suffering from psychogenic headache, anxiety, depression, psychosexual dysfunctions and OCD etc.
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