Morita Therapy and The Art of Taking Action with Gregg Krech
05/04/20 • 68 min
Gregg Krech, an expert in a form of Japanese psychology called Morita Therapy, discusses how to think differently about the role of emotions in mental health and the surprising power of taking action to improve things like anxiety, procrastination, and depression.
Show Notes
- The relationship between feeling and action
- Morita therapy
- Feeling-centered vs purpose-centered lifestyle
- Coexisting with unpleasant feelings without acting on them
- Cultural difference in our understanding of emotions
- Acceptance of emotions
- Content of emotions vs your relationship with your emotions
- Zen meditation and the nature of emotions
- Working on feelings vs accepting them
- Acceptance, attachment, and suffering
- Non-resistance
- Self-focused attention
- Iatrogenics in psychotherapy
- Performance anxiety
- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Anxiety and intelligence
- Procrastination
- Michael Singer and The Untethered Soul
You can learn more about Gregg and his work here:
- Thirty Thousand Days (website)
- The To-Do Institute (website)
- The Art of Taking Action (book)
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Gregg Krech, an expert in a form of Japanese psychology called Morita Therapy, discusses how to think differently about the role of emotions in mental health and the surprising power of taking action to improve things like anxiety, procrastination, and depression.
Show Notes
- The relationship between feeling and action
- Morita therapy
- Feeling-centered vs purpose-centered lifestyle
- Coexisting with unpleasant feelings without acting on them
- Cultural difference in our understanding of emotions
- Acceptance of emotions
- Content of emotions vs your relationship with your emotions
- Zen meditation and the nature of emotions
- Working on feelings vs accepting them
- Acceptance, attachment, and suffering
- Non-resistance
- Self-focused attention
- Iatrogenics in psychotherapy
- Performance anxiety
- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Anxiety and intelligence
- Procrastination
- Michael Singer and The Untethered Soul
You can learn more about Gregg and his work here:
- Thirty Thousand Days (website)
- The To-Do Institute (website)
- The Art of Taking Action (book)
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