"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self ... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend ... Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness.  This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being.  It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant. "


Posts tagged with 'depression'

Recent research: articles from November journals

5th December 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,900 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from October journals

3rd November 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from September journals

5th October 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Health crisis for Britain's middle-aged

10th September 2011

Ouch, a very interesting international health survey, that has just been released, reports: "Middle-aged Britons are experiencing a mid-life health crisis, according to new research from Bupa, which shows that those aged 45-54 are more likely to be obese, more likely to smoke and more likely to suffer from depression …

Recent research: articles from August journals

8th September 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from July journals

4th August 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Guildford BABCP conference: the four main areas I want to use clinically after this conference (eighth post)

28th July 2011

I've already written a series of seven blog posts on this year's BABCP conference. What are the key points I want to take away? I think they centre around four areas. Most important for me is what's been triggered by Michael Lambert's presentation on "Supershrinks and pseudoshrinks" . Secondly, a …

Guildford BABCP conference: discussion on the Dodo assertion - all good depression treatments are equally effective (fifth post)

25th July 2011

I wrote yesterday about "Supershrinks and pseudoshrinks". The first panel discussion, that I then went to on the main conference's second day, overlapped a bit into this territory. It addressed the proposition "All bona fide psychological treatments for depression are equally effective" with a couple of experts supporting the notion …

Guildford BABCP conference: what shall we do about the fact that there are supershrinks and pseudoshrinks? (fourth post)

24th July 2011

Yesterday I wrote about the first morning of this year's BABCP conference and the plenary lecture - " ... Rolls Royce therapy & Anke Ehlers on PTSD (third post)". Good stuff. Heart-warming to see such fine, persistent, thoughtful research yielding such encouraging results for PTSD sufferers. Would that attempts to …

Guildford BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on couple therapy with Don Baucom (first post)

21st July 2011

The 39th British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference is in Guildford at the University of Surrey this year. As usual it's preceded by a choice of pre-conference workshops. Two of the twenty two initially on offer have been cancelled, but there's still a wealth of options. I've …