I agree about music. When someone very close to me died suddenly a few years ago I found listening to meaningful songs & particularly music they loved, even if it wasn’t something I’d previously enjoyed helped me hugely with coming to terms with the loss and allowed me to just let the tears flow. It also made me feel like they were still with me and several years on I still get comfort those songs when I’m really missing them. Music can be so powerful anytime!
Where does that idea come from that we expect to be happy? It,s good to be content , fulfilled, useful and to experience joy. Is that happiness? I think Robert Burton,s Anatomy of Melancholia 1628 needs to be read alongside this vid.
Thanks for the recommendation, added to my wishlist on audible although 56 hours, wow! I qualified as a CBT Therapist years ago and have worked in bereavement and believe that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a natural evolution of the first wave CBT model and bridges with more humanistic traditions. I stumbled across ACT through my Bereavement work and it's has truly changed my life and practice. To be able to mindfully sit with pain and discomfort but to be able to normalise and understand the universality of our thoughts, feelings and physical responses can help heal. My sense is, that classic CBT and it's attempts to rationalise what our experience is only serves to perpetuate 'suffering'. Sadness and the acknowledgment of, is such a crucial part of the whole. Thanks to Prof Steve Hayes, Marcus Aurelius, Waldo Emerson, Michael A. Singer, Barry McDonagh and many others for helping me on this journey.
I agree about music. When someone very close to me died suddenly a few years ago I found listening to meaningful songs & particularly music they loved, even if it wasn’t something I’d previously enjoyed helped me hugely with coming to terms with the loss and allowed me to just let the tears flow. It also made me feel like they were still with me and several years on I still get comfort those songs when I’m really missing them. Music can be so powerful anytime!
Is that why Brazilian music is so wonderful, because they revel in their melancholy?
Yes it's both happy and sad at the same time.
Amazing. Thank you.
Where does that idea come from that we expect to be happy? It,s good to be content , fulfilled, useful and to experience joy. Is that happiness? I think Robert Burton,s Anatomy of Melancholia 1628 needs to be read alongside this vid.
Thanks for the recommendation, added to my wishlist on audible although 56 hours, wow! I qualified as a CBT Therapist years ago and have worked in bereavement and believe that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a natural evolution of the first wave CBT model and bridges with more humanistic traditions. I stumbled across ACT through my Bereavement work and it's has truly changed my life and practice. To be able to mindfully sit with pain and discomfort but to be able to normalise and understand the universality of our thoughts, feelings and physical responses can help heal. My sense is, that classic CBT and it's attempts to rationalise what our experience is only serves to perpetuate 'suffering'. Sadness and the acknowledgment of, is such a crucial part of the whole. Thanks to Prof Steve Hayes, Marcus Aurelius, Waldo Emerson, Michael A. Singer, Barry McDonagh and many others for helping me on this journey.