{"id":477,"date":"2008-10-07T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-10-07T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T15:41:56","slug":"be-your-own-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/be-your-own-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Your Own Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nasIq4E9nNg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nasIq4E9nNg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nABSTRACT<\/p>\n<p>We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing without question that happiness and suffering come from &#8220;out there.&#8221; In reality, Buddhist teachings explain that they come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the things themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This deeply held misconception is at the root of our dissatisfaction, self-doubt, anger, depression, anxiety, and the rest. But our minds can change. By becoming deeply familiar with the workings of our own cognitive processes through introspection and learning to deconstruct them &#8211; truly, being our own therapists &#8211; we can loosen the grip of these neuroses and grow our marvelous potential for contentment, clarity, and courage, which are at the core of our being.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; very very deep! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing without question that happiness and suffering come from &#8220;out there.&#8221; In reality, Buddhist teachings explain that they come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/be-your-own-therapist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}