Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Moving beliefs out of your mind, and putting in whatever you think will fit better. And that’s smart? Or safe?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aims to help clients replace unhelpful cognitions and solve a ton of problems.
But what does CBT do to auras?
Could there be side effects that folks don’t notice… Unless, that is, they have developed good skills of energetic literacy?
What might perhaps serve you better as a way of removing unhelpful thoughts and beliefs?
Mostly this blogpost aims to help you to consider the impact of CBT on the auras of those who use it.
Of course, CBT is hardly the only way to effectively replace unhelpful cognitions. So we’ll be considering Energy Spirituality™ alternatives. Especially in our blog COMMENTS.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Does Work
Research studies have shown that CBT has helped clients deal better with chronic pain, divorce, and many other problems.
And the idea seems so appealing: Helping clients to break old habits related to faulty cognitions. Unhelpful ideas, whether conscious or subconscious!
Recently, here at this blog, we had some discussion of CBT, and how it contrasts with different skills of Energy Spirituality. (For example, see Comments #38-55.)
Unfortunately, to the degree I understand this methodology… Which is, not everything, not by a long shot… According to what I do understand:
Especially when engaged in using CBT for self-healing, but even when helped by a therapist… The client is responsible for finding distorted cognitions through a process of evaluation. Useful questions might be:
- When does the client STOP evaluating and resume regular living?
- How routine does it become, trying to suss out their cognitive deficiencies and also cognitive distortions?
- “They learn the influence that cognition has on their feelings, and they are taught to recognize observe and monitor their own thoughts.”
Uh-Oh
Observing their own thoughts? Monitoring their thoughts? To me, another name for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy could be:
A cure that’s worse than the disease.
Since I bring skills as a consciousness engineer to this blog, I have serious concerns about manipulating the natural flow of thinking.
Clearly, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can improve behavior and emotional life. But what are the hidden consequences?
In particular, what does the process of doing CBT do to a person’s natural flow of consciousness? Specifically…
What Are the Unintended Consequences of Tinkering with Your Thought Process?
That’s what I aim to research in this blogpost. Choosing to do Skilled Empath Merge on three eminent leaders in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- After all, they use CBT to replace unhelpful ideas in themselves.
- As well as helping their clients to replace unhelpful ideas.
Maybe you share my curiosity. What will I discover about the auras of these experts?
Skilled Empath Merge Can Bring Us Helpful Insights
A disclaimer must come first, though.
I’ll be sharing my personal experience of what it’s like to be the “Discovery Person” at the other end of each Skilled Empath Merge.
Other empaths might have a completely different experience. In no way am I claiming that my research is either scientific or definitive.
Furthermore, researching any chakra databank with Skilled Empath Merge, the information involves energetic and subconscious patterns. Not what a person consciously thinks… about anything.
All that said, many of you readers are already familiar with Skilled Empath Merge as the most direct way for one person to explore another person. Highly subjective.
What If You’re New to Skilled Empath Merges?
Perhaps this background will be all you need to appreciate what I’ll be finding.
- You can easily learn the basics about Skilled Empath Merge. Just click on the link just provided.
- Of course, Skilled Empath Merge is akin to aura reading, but more intensely-and-personally experienced.
- Elsewhere at my blog you can find dedicated posts, more detailed samples of Skilled Empath Merge.
- Here I’ll be giving you three brief samples of this Energy Spirituality™ specialty.
- As always, with either Skilled Empath Merges or aura readings, one researches specific chakra databanks.
- This Discernment Jamboree about Skilled Empath Merge gives you a more consumer-oriented approach to what empaths can discover.
- Finally, you might be interested in browsing my book that teaches how to do Skilled Empath Merge: The Master Empath
By all means, if you have questions about Skilled Empath Merge, COMMENT away and ask. Now let’s get started.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist 1. Jason M. Satterfield, Ph.D.
Dr. Satterfield is a teacher for Wondrium. (Formerly The Great Courses.) Among other ways that he’s a leader at Cognitive Behavioral Therapy!
At that previous link you’ll find a photo suitable for doing Skilled Empath Merge.
Jason’s Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room
Definitely a large chakra databank! He’s affable, genial. Warm-heartedly, Dr. Satterfield wants everyone to feel good and be happy; he also wants very much for others to like him.
Prof. Satterfield’s Root Chakra Databank for Connection to Objective Reality
Severely under-functioning, this chakra databank is tight and small. Most important, a stringent self-control has become habitual, shaping Jason’s subconscious requirements for reality.
In other words, the CBT expert seems to have clearly defined requirements for how life must exist in his world.
Rose Adds
Absolutely no room for spontaneity here. Nor even a flexible willingness to be surprised by life.
Doing the Skilled Empath Merge, it’s such a sharp contrast to the man’s seeming flexibility that showed in his presence. But that, of course, was social flexibility. While experiencing Jason’s objective reality, I found his connection to outer reality to be shockingly limited, rigid, and even a bit righteous. More like living in a prison. (Admittedly a high-class kind of jail for an exceptionally intelligent prisoner.)
Jason’s Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Sense of Self
Extremely small, this chakra databank: Seems to me that Dr. Satterfield has a very clean sense of self, everything orderly and figured out, arranged quite perfectly.
Dr. Satterfield’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Growth
Reminiscent of a damp kitchen sink sponge, with all the water squeezed out.
Evidently emotional growth isn’t really appropriate to him any longer. Since he’s got all his emotions very much under control.
Prof. Satterfield’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Honesty
Like the previous Heart Chakra Databank, this one for emotional self-honesty is totally shut down. (At least at this time in the professor’s life.)
“What is that?” seems to be his aura’s response to my search for his emotional self-honesty. Extremely so — the quality of numbness is intense. As though, “I have no need of feeling emotions or admitting to myself what they might be.”
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist 2. Judith S. Beck, Ph.D.
Dr. Beck is the author of “Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Third Edition: Basics and Beyond.”
She’s also staked a claim to fame by publishing “The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person”
And here’s a Judith Beck photo suitable for doing Skilled Empath Merge.
Dr. Beck’s Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room
How extraordinarily intelligent am I! At the time of this photo, that’s Dr. Beck’s entire claim to personhood.
Rose Adds
What a controlled, stiff, limited experience at this chakra databank!
Usually I love researching this one when I facilitate a Skilled Empath Merge. Since, at any given time in a person’s life, what shows here in summary form? Quite simply, how a person defines herself or himself.
For Dr. Beck at this time, it would appear that she’s an extreme practitioner of self-monitoring and self-control. Doing this to an existential degree, one might say.
Dr. Beck’s Root Chakra Databank for Connection to Objective Reality
Almost completely shut down, this chakra databank suggests a tightly controlled reality. Life is barely noticed. Slightly more interesting is the process of carefully cleaning up any inner experience that potentially would be disturbing.
Overall, I’m struck by the effortless, everyday “skill” of detaching from life, all the better to succeed at CBT.
Judith’s Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Sense of Self
Great power! Akin to being a ruler of the world.
That’s the overall quality of the chakra databank, along with great self-contentment, even pride.
However, regarding the size of the chakra databank, it’s close to shut down.
Dr. Beck’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Growth
5,000 feet or so, this chakra databank is greatly over-functioning.
A great deal of hard work is Dr. Beck’s perpetual task during her waking hours. Most noticeable, though, is the substitution of her intellect for her emotions.
This is, after all, a Heart Chakra databank, right?
Rose Adds
My experience of Judith’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Growth is very much like standing inside a walk-in freezer.
But every Skilled Empath would have a different nuance of experience….
Judith’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Honesty
Similarly, this Heart Chakra databank is also wildly over-functioning.
Only I don’t find what I would call “emotional” anything, in any form. Unless you count “analyzing constantly” as a version of having human emotions and being willing to admit to oneself what those emotions might be.
Seems to me, hardworking Dr. Beck is far too busy doing a perfect job with CBT… than to relax into any authentic emotional experience, let alone be willing to let an uncontrolled emotional experience be allowed, even subconsciously. At least at the time of this photograph.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist 3. Seth J. Gillihan
Dr. Gillihan is the author of the bestselling, “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies For Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, And Worry” Plus, other how-to books that authorize readers to diagnose their serious mental health problems. Then use his book on CBT to clear those problems right up.
I’m especially curious to do a Skilled Empath Merge on him. And why? Because he’s not alone in writing CBT books intended to help readers self-heal serious psychiatric illnesses. For instance, folks can start “managing” their minds with how-to books like these:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – 11 Simple CBT Techniques to Strengthen Self-Awareness and Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Intrusive Thoughts
- And Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies
Yet I’m incredulous that any serious professional would trust random readers to start playing around with controlling their thoughts.
Yes, Incredulous
Of course, I’m responding as the founder of Energy Spirituality™. Not a mental health practitioner who approves of setting random readers loose on tinkering with their minds. (And not all mental health practitioners are fans of CBT in any context.)
Also worth noting: Energy Spirituality is not psychotherapy. Period.
Moreover I don’t work with clients in crisis, or clients who are struggling to get through the day. If a client tells me “I’m anxious,” I’ll ask, “Are you sure you mean that? Or are you more worried?” If a client really feels anxious or depressed, I end the session immediately, recommending that the client get help from a mental health professional.
But now, thanks to the self-help trend with CBT? Now, a highly trained mental health professional is giving permission to clients with anxiety etc. to go ahead and do CBT on their own?
Of course, while doing my research on Dr. Gillihan, I’ll set aside my incredulity. I’ll follow the procedure in this book on how to do Skilled Empath Merge, cocreating with a Divine Being.
But before researching a thing, I want to go on record as asking this:
How might the author of a book with “Strategies For Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic,” etc. be doing something either responsible or ethical?
COMMENTS, anyone?
Now for this Blogpost’s Final Research on a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
Here’s the photo I’ll use for doing a Skilled Empath Merge on Dr. Gillihan.
Dr. Gillihan’s Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room
Such an ambitious man! He has to be the superstar person in any room, no matter how large the crowd. Must be noticed, respected, deferred to.
Dr. Gillihan’s Root Chakra Databank for Connection to Objective Reality
This flatlining chakra databank suggests scant interest in what people say or do, in facts or statistics, or potential surprises of any kind whatsoever.
Rather, Dr. Gillihan appears to be serenely in control, beyond unflappable. As if he confidently knows that if anything surprising ever should happen in life around him, he will brilliantly figure out the perfect solution.
Seth’s Solar Plexus Chakra Databank for Sense of Self
Again, this chakra databank has the quality of Seth’s knowing himself to be the greatest of the great. His huge-and-successful sense of self fills the room, very much like Seth’s Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room.
Rose Adds
Surely, Blog-Buddies, you’re familiar with the expression Very Important Person (VIP). That — to an extreme degree — appears to be Dr. Gillihan’s sense of self.
Dr. Gillihan’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Growth
Completely shut down, this chakra databank proclaims (to this empath at least):
“No need for me to grow emotionally. I’m pretty much perfect. And definitely in total control.”
Seth’s Heart Chakra Databank for Emotional Self-Honesty
And here’s another bigger than the biggest kind of Chakra Databank. (Standing in contrast to others I’ve researched here, chakra databanks which have been more like the smallest of the smallest).
According to Seth Gillihan’s experience of himself… how interesting!
I don’t just feel information researching this chakra databank
Which is usually the case.
Instead I smack splat! Into a belief, hard as a way-tough piece of beige plastic.
It’s a belief that Dr. Seth is the most honest, most brilliant improver of himself emotionally.
Yes, a belief. Interesting?
In Conclusion… So Far. Let Our Comment Conversations Begin
In addition to the research you’ve seen here, let’s explore.
By all means let’s discuss a variety of alternatives to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Including ones not often covered here at this blog. Rather, you know about them, use these methods, love them. Now’s your chance to spread the word.
Also, in our Comment Conversations below, let’s discuss unhelpful ideas for self-healing… Like taking Ivermectin to fighting Covid-19. Only this is a deworming medicine. Developed to help horses, not people. And believers in Ivermectin have died from taking it.
Have any of you had good results from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? If so, have you had a session with me since you’ve been manipulating your mind in that way?
The nice thing about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is that all kinds of people do it. Its well know and I find that to be a safeguard.
Maybe your alternative of Energy Spirituality is good but I don’t want to be a lab rat for it.
I’ll wait until it’s popular and then I might consider it.
RITA, you’re welcome to be a proud follower in life. However, you won’t benefit from a single session of Energy Spirituality unless you give it a try.
Here’s what many skeptical new clients do:
When booking their first session, many a new client will email me a photo of an important person in their lives, whether a spouse or an ex, a father or mother, brother or sister, or current employer.
Then I’ll research the chakra databanks of that person. Don’t be shocked if you’re surprised at the insights — on target and more perceptive than most people ever manage to do on their own.
Since these sessions of Energy Spirituality Aura Reading bring insight about the person’s subconscious mind and astral energies, going far beyond what my client has pieced together from life events, personal human-type perceptiveness, and pop psychology.
Follow-up questions, please.
Rose, thanks for your response to my earlier question.
This is my takeaway from your Comment #184:
People using self-help books to learn Cognitive Behavioral Therapy may find it easy and enjoyable to do.
They might enjoy trying to control their thoughts. And they might feel confident that they can find important beliefs that need changing.
But how about the quality of what these self-therapists will find?
Does that New Vibrational Freedom have anything to do with this trend?
Yes, indeed. What’s the big factor that’s going on with trends like today’s New Vibrational Freedom?
Count this as nothing less than an Age of Awakening change to the process of having thoughts, new ideas, and insights about ourselves.
On the positive side, this New Vibrational Freedom makes it newly possible to gain Stage 3 Energetic Literacy — worthwhile aura reading that includes reading chakra databanks in person and also from regular photographs.
Also newly possible?
To upgrade energy healing skills so that you cocreate with God, not a random group of astral spirits.
On the negative side, what if we don’t purposely use that New Vibrational Freedom?
Very likely we’ll develop a messed-up consciousness lifestyle, getting stuck in our emotional growth and spiritual evolution.
And this kind of problem is hardly rare. Quite opposite to that!
Just click on the previous link, an assessment of consciousness lifestyles in January 2021. Only 15% of human beings in America has a trustworthy consciousness lifestyle. (And I’d likely find a similar mess researching folks in other countries, as well.)
Sobering but true, KAYLA and other Blog-Buddies. Only 15% of Americans functioning normally with their feelings and thoughts about themselves, including if they’re experimenting with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
That’s what they’re bringing to the hunt for subconscious patterns of belief?
Maybe these references to “consciousness lifestyles” seems abstract, so let’s give a couple of more concrete examples.
First of all, take a good look at the link in Comment #211. About the “TRUE Signs of the Age of Awakening.”
In this article I bring truth to bear on this important topic. While so much nonsense, even outright crazy-talk is more commonplace today. Sadly.
If you’re not yet convinced, click on this link to the “Aquarian New Age.”
BTW, this search yields 3,630,000 hits on Google. Where you may find some pretty questionable ideas, more like channeled teachings and writings from psychics with a messed-up consciousness lifestyle.
Currently this fairly goofy name is far more popular than calling this new era by a more appropriate name, the “Age of Awakening”.
BTW, this search yields 447,000 hits on Google.
Second example: Have you ever had a friend who smoked weed?
Under the influence of marijuana, that person could come up with all sorts of theories. About everything. Including “These are my real issues.” Or “These are my faulty cognitions that have been hurting my quality of life.”
After the astral high wears off… Because that’s what grass does; it positions consciousness at an Astral Vibrational Frequency…
The ideas can seem utterly ridiculous. Like, “I have a serious problem with processing the color green.”
KAYLA, when people don’t know how to use their New Vibrational Freedom productively, they may spend hours every day with their consciousness positioned at an Astral Vibrational Frequency.
In effect, it’s a natural high. Living that way can feel mellow and relaxed…
But just like being under the influence of marijuana, the resulting ideas can be lacking in rationality. (Politely put.)
Putting all this together, KAYLA, you can appreciate what’s happening with countless do-it-yourselfers who are fans of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Without having direction provided by a professional Cognitive Behavioral Therapist in session with them — a mental health professional who is NOT stoned on weed — folks may spiral into greater and greater distance from reality.
And yes, MARTY, the previous comments are also quite relevant to what you asked, starting with your fine Comment #186.
Also, in Comment #184 you wrote:
“I’m very dubious about the quality, compared to what a professional could do with Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING. Including the healing centerpiece called Causational Belief Transformation.”
Do tell. And thanks in advance. :-)
Here we go, KAYLA. This is a big question, and my fellow consciousness geeks are sure to enjoy what follows in response. (Of course, if any of you have questions, put them into further COMMENTS here.)
What is special about using this Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING skill?
A clue comes right with the name: Causational Belief® Transformation.
Regarding your beliefs, for example, KAYLA — no doubt you’ve got a ton of beliefs, such as:
* Beliefs about what it takes to be a good person.
* Beliefs about how you aim to dress.
* Beliefs about the importance of a good haircut.
In addition to the innumerable topics about which you have beliefs, how about the intensity of your beliefs?
* Black Lives Matter may mean a great deal more to you than your belief that “cheugy” is for people who could find better ways for spending their time.
Working with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, who’s to choose which of your beliefs is important? And important to change?
Personally, I doubt that any professional Cognitive Behavioral Therapist trusts readers of self-help books on CBT to make excellent choices on their own.
Yet the readers of those books are being authorized to bring all the discernment they need.
Beyond that, though, here’s something I don’t just doubt. I’m certain.
Neither Cognitive Behavioral Therapists nor their clients nor readers of self-help books on CBT…
None of them are likely to ever find a person’s CAUSATIONAL Beliefs, nor have a powerful skill set to cocreate the transformation of CAUSATIONAL Beliefs that are outdated or unhelpful in other ways.
You see, Kayla, CAUSATIONAL Beliefs are the deepest level of belief that a person can have. To understand how that is, I’m going to share something I haven’t written about previously — neither at this blog nor in my books; and I haven’t taught about this in my workshops, either.
Let’s consider nothing less than the anatomy of your aura at the astral level, which you could also call the deep structures of your subconscious mind.
Deepest of all is your Storehouse of Impressions: This was known to the ancient Hindus as the chitta, or chit.
Personally, I was introduced to this concept by my former guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Later, when I became a professional hypnotist, specializing in past-life regression, I realized that these skills depended upon helping my clients to attain a depth of trance sufficient for clear experience of earlier in this lifetime, or a past life entirely.
You see, everyone’s Storehouse of Impressions contains a complete record of every experience and energetic imprint that has ever happened to that unique soul.
Namely, your Storehouse of Impressions contains a complete record of everything that has happened to you every waking minute of this lifetime. Also what happened around you if you fainted and were temporarily unconscious, etc.
Included is everything about you… and also every person who was ever with you; not just saying things and doing things directly to you but also anywhere in your peripheral vision and peripheral hearing.
In addition, your Storehouse of Impressions contains a complete record of every experience and energetic imprint that has ever happened during any incarnation…
And also whatever you witness and do between lifetimes, while you’re hanging out as an angel, a discarnate being.
Above that deepest level within you, KAYLA, you have your collection of Causational Agreements. These impact this incarnation only. (So it’s a big deal to change out unhelpful ones by using the Energy Spirituality skills of Causational AGREEMENT Transformation.)
Directly above that level, KAYLA and other Blog-Buddies, you have your collection of Causational Beliefs.
Making contact with these and selecting one for transformation during Causational BELIEF Transformation?
That’s a huge responsibility for the Energy Spirituality Practitioner, requiring extremely advanced skills.
To give you an idea of what I mean here by “advanced skills” …
Here’s one more juicy detail about the anatomy of your aura at the astral level, which you could also call the deep structures of your subconscious mind:
Your Storehouse of Energetic Holograms.
This Storehouse of Energetic Holograms is above your Causational BELIEFS. Although, technically, a bit easier to access, I doubt that anybody outside of skilled practitioners of Energy Spirituality can accurately research these, either.
And why? Because a foundational skill you’d need to research somebody’s Energetic Holograms is full energetic literacy, reading chakra databanks.
How many people have you encountered, KAYLA, who’ve learned that skill?
Personally, I have yet to read a single article online where somebody not trained as an Energy Spirituality Practitioner has done a credible job of reading anybody’s chakra databanks… let alone energetic holograms.
BTW, if any of you Blog-Buddies ever encounter an article where a psychic or psychologist or energy worker has managed to read a client’s chakra databanks???
By all means, COMMENT below with a link. I doubt that’s happening, not yet.
So there’s your introductory answer, KAYLA and other Blog-Buddies.
Thanks so much, KAYLA for your Comment #228 and 229.
Rose, all that you’ve been writing at this thread rings true to me. I guess my big question now concerns what you call “consciousness lifestyles.”
Last January you posted a survey here about the prevalence of different consciousness lifestyles. According to what you wrote, only 15% percent of people have a consciousness lifestyle that helps them to make contact with reality, to do that well.
If so many people are living in consciousness lifestyles that distance them from reality, such as Psychological Overwork, how is it that mental health professionals aren’t aware of this problem?
Don’t we trust our mental health professionals to tell when their patients are losing touch with reality?
Are they on board with your findings about consciousness lifestyles? If not, why not?
What will it take before psychotherapists like Cognitive Behavioral Therapists can manage to get on board with today’s discoveries about consciousness lifestyles?
I guess I’m wondering about this too: When will there be an aura reading requirement that therapists must have good skills of energetic literacy?
I’m thinking about Comment #261… Here is what I can’t figure out. If many (most?) mental health professionals are NOT in that 15% whose consciousness lifestyles keep them in touch with reality? Then, how could a person in crisis, truly depressed or anxious or having to struggle to get through the day—find someone who can be of true assistance?
The odds are great that you’d find, instead, someone who will lead you astray…
LUCY, sad to say, for now (in Sept. 2023), you’re correct.
Here are two ways to protect yourself, help yourself, if seeking a psychotherapist:
First, if you’re seeking a new therapist, book a research session with me.
On the day of your appointment, email me a generous set of headshots belonging to your best choices, currently. Use these guidelines so that the photo is suitable for research. About 10 choices would be good. Please, send each as a separate email to me. (Maybe with the name of the therapist in the subject line, for clarity.)
The same procedure goes for any kind of professional:
* An attorney
* A doctor
* A dentist, etc.
Let me help you find a person who doesn’t only have credentials but is also in contact with objective reality.
Second, please spread the word about Energy Spirituality®.
Share links to our blogposts on social media. Like my posts on Facebook and my books-and-reviews on Goodreads.
Maybe give gift copies of this book to your friends and others you think are ready to learn more about what’s happening now:
Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening
Thanks for all you can do. Relatively few people know anything useful and true about the Shift into the Age of Awakening. For everybody who steps up as a leader, I’m so grateful.
Speaking of leadership, LUCY, you might find these recent comments useful.
At the link just provided, Comments #18 and following.
Whether you’re a fan of CBT or the opposite, you may enjoy reading “And That’s Okay.”
Particularly Comments #63-67.