The ‘I-Am’ Experience
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2018
The ‘I-Am’ experience is an important psychotherapeutic tool. Existentialists shifted the ‘I’ from the mental ego of Descartes to the ‘sense of being’ that was different from the ego. In the consciousness perspective, the ‘I’ can be shifted still behind to the universal ‘I’ and finally to the True Self or Person giving a radical view to existence.
Meditations on the current pandemic
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2021
Dr. Soumitra Basu, a practising psychiatrist and member of SAIIIHR, is the Director of a school of psychology, Integral Yoga Psychology. He is also one of the editors of NAMAH.
Freedom of choice
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2018
A consciousness-based counselling approach provides a flexibility to the therapist to facilitate a growth in consciousness. One innovative approach is to offer a freedom of choice at an optimal point in therapy so that the client can choose from alternatives. This phenomenon is simultaneously therapeutically effective and increases compliance.
Fear and death
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2014
Fear is the basic phenomenon behind illness. A conquest of fear per se is needed for healthy living. One of the most dynamic means to overcome fear is to learn to conquer the fear of death. One can be trained to react to death without fear and remain unperturbed. Death should not be invited but faced courageously.
Equality — a prerequisite for higher living
By Soumitra Basu - Apr 24, 2017
Equality is not only an attitude but knowledge as well as a yoga. It is a prerequisite for a higher life. A multifaceted equality has to be cultivated at different parts of the being to culminate in a soul-equipoise.