Post by the Scribe on Aug 5, 2021 7:03:21 GMT
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-Dr. Art Rosengarten is a licensed Jungian-based clinical psychologist with 40 years in private practice as a psychotherapist. He is also a meditation teacher, author of Tarot and Psychology: Spectrums of Possibility, Tarot of the Future: Raising Spiritual Consciousness, TNP, and a widely-recognized speaker and expert in the psychospiritual applications of Tarot.
-CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST at Community Psychiatry in Del Mar, CA., 40 years of private practice experience. New patients with insurance requesting Dr. Rosengarten call (858) 259-0599. Individual, Couples, Adolescence, and Addiction & Recovery specialities. Telemedicine Appointments over Zoom available also. We accept most insurance plans and will verify your behavioral health insurance plans for you. Address: 12835 Pointe Del Mar Way, Suite 1, Del Mar, CA 92014.
MEDITATION IS NOT JUST FOR ENLIGHTENMENT
I have been meditating for over 50 years, and no, I’m not enlightened. But that is not the point. As a psychologist I believe meditation is the single most beneficial tool for centering the mind, relaxing deeply into one’s experience as it is, whether agitated or calm, and generating greater psychological spaciousness. This allows us to observe the thoughts and feelings that disrupt our momentary reality, to note them simply as “thought” or “feeling,” (minus their content) and then disengage immediately from the snowballing of mental chatter which actually is the source of our anxieties and depressions. Instead we learn to refocus instantly onto the next mind-moment of breathing, and continue tracking each breath. We do it not so much to feel good as to break the cycle of toxic self-generated mentalizing. Meditation offers a simple technology to short-circuit the causes of unnecessary suffering. And we also feel better because of it.
-Art Rosengarten, Ph.D. Community Psychiatry, Del Mar, California
