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I’ve tried Vipassana before and know a good amount about meditative practices in the conventional religious context it fell out of (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). I can’t say I ever became a serious practitioner in any way but one theme that repeats from it over and over is to reduce the attempts to over-intellectualize meditation, because it’s one of the surest ways to lose yourself in the cognitive phenomenology and experience it’s meant to bring you toward.
One of the most popular forms of psychotherapy here in the west is a regimen that bears a close resemblance to common forms of meditation, that was developed by Albert Ellis; called Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and its offshoot Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (1, 2). I’ve found that tends to be more accessible to a lay western audience and has an easier grasp to understand.
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