Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Surprising Ways It Can Mess up Your Aura

Moving beliefs out of your mind, and stacking in whatever you think will fit better. And that’s smart? Or safe?

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 blogging, 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?

For Discovering, Skilled Empath Merge Can Bring Us Helpful Insights

Many of you readers are already familiar with Skilled Empath Merge as the most direct way for one person to explore another person. Otherwise?

Perhaps this background will be all you need to appreciate what I’ll be finding.

1. You can easily learn the basics about Skilled Empath Merge. Just click on the link just provided.
2. Of course, Skilled Empath Merge is akin to aura reading, but more intensely-and-personally experienced.
3. Elsewhere at my Energy Spirituality blog you can find dedicated posts, more detailed samples of Skilled Empath Merge.
4. Here I’ll be giving you three brief samples of this Energy Spirituality specialty.
5. As always, with either Skilled Empath Merges or aura readings, one researches specific chakra databanks.
6. This Discernment Jamboree about Skilled Empath Merge gives you a more consumer-oriented approach to what empaths can discover.
7. 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.

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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.

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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?

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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:

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life.
2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — 11 Simple CBT Techniques to Strengthen Self-Awareness and Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Intrusive Thoughts
3. 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 knoing himself to be the greatest of the great. His hug-and-successful sense of self fills the room, very much like Seth’s Root Chakra Databank for Presence in the Room.

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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, of all things, a belief. Interesting?

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