Writing
Notes from the practice — on integrative psychology, the clinical applications of the Bharatiya knowledge systems, and the questions that arise when ancient and modern frameworks meet in the consulting room.
- 7 June 20268 min read
The Cascade of Suffering: How the Bhagavad Gītā Mapped Rumination Two Thousand Years Before Nolen-Hoeksema
Two thousand years before rumination research, the Gītā's verses 2.62–63 mapped the cascade from attention to suffering. A clinical reading.
Read essay - 27 May 20267 min read
Aparigraha: The Yama That Quietly Powers Acceptance, Defusion, and the Loosening of a Stuck Life
Aparigraha, non-grasping, is the quiet mechanism beneath acceptance and defusion, and the loosening that lets a stuck life begin to move again.
Read essay - 21 May 20266 min read
Tapas: Why Therapeutic Change Requires Discomfort, and What the Yoga Sūtras Got Right About Behavioural Activation
Lasting change asks for discomfort. How tapas, disciplined heat, anticipates behavioural activation, and why avoidance keeps a stuck life stuck.
Read essay - 19 May 20267 min read
Pratyāhāra: The Vedic Protocol Modern Attention Training Has Been Reinventing for Thirty Years
Pratyāhāra, the withdrawal of the senses, is the protocol modern attention training has spent thirty years reinventing. What the original got right.
Read essay - 14 May 202610 min read
Śraddhā: The Therapeutic Variable That Common-Factors Research Keeps Rediscovering
Common-factors research keeps rediscovering what the tradition called śraddhā: the quiet variable that decides whether good therapy actually works.
Read essay - 12 May 20269 min read
Vāsanā and Saṃskāra: The Vedic Account of Subconscious Conditioning That Clarifies What Trauma Therapy Is Actually Doing
Vāsanā and saṃskāra describe the grooves of subconscious conditioning, and clarify what trauma therapy is actually working to rewire.
Read essay - 7 May 20268 min read
Santoṣa Is Not “When Things Go My Way”: The Gītā's Doctrine of Action and the Neuroscience That Confirms It
Contentment is a discipline, not a mood. The Gītā's santoṣa, and the affective neuroscience that explains why it changes how the nervous system settles.
Read essay - 5 May 20267 min read
The Five Kleshas: Patañjali's 2,000-Year-Old Map of Human Suffering — And Why It Still Outperforms Modern Diagnostic Manuals
Patañjali's five kleshas map the roots of suffering at a depth modern diagnostic manuals miss. A clinician's account of why the old map still holds.
Read essay - 23 April 20267 min read
Saṅkalpa: The Vedic Doctrine of Resolve That Fills the Gap Between Intention-Setting and Sustained Behaviour Change
Why intention-setting so often fails to become action, and how the Vedic doctrine of saṅkalpa closes the gap between resolve and lasting change.
Read essay - 21 April 20268 min read
Dhyāna Is Not Mindfulness: Why Patañjali's Eight-Limbed Protocol Produces Different Clinical Results Than MBSR
Mindfulness and dhyāna are not the same practice. Why Patañjali's eight-limbed protocol reaches what MBSR-style attention training often cannot.
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