Talk & Guided Meditation For Alleviating Intrusive Thoughts

This is a talk and guided meditation covering both modern clinical and 2,500-year old core Buddhist perspectives into the unconscious "ironic process" that makes certain thoughts sticky and repetitive (obsessive), along with specific practices that allow us to stem the flow of such obsessive ideations. The practices, while grounded in early Buddhist concepts, are also found in contemporary therapeutic traditions such as cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies (CBT and DBT).

Reviews

Thank you so much for this extremely informative talk!!

Simply excellent. Buddhism and neuroscience brought together. Dightful and helpful. Thank you, Josh.

This was excellent. It is so rare to get such a detailed explanation of the “why” of certain practices. Thank you.

Great explanation of the brain and the science behind thoughts and then some concrete tools to use to stop fighting intrusive thoughts. About 1/2 lecture and 1/2 silent and guided meditation.

Powerful, helpful tools for an OCD sufferer like myself. Very insightful - thank you 🙏