A skillful behavioral life practice integrating Humanistic Psychology, Depth Psychology, and 5,000 years of embodied Zen meditation science.
Applied Meditation Therapy® (AMT) is a skillful behavioral life practice that integrates the findings, insights, and strategies from Humanistic Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology, Bodymind Medicine, Cognitive Psychology, and Biofeedback with a 5,000 year old human science known as "the original body of living meditation."
Applied Meditation Therapy® is a powerful therapeutic Way of Life for promoting health, healing, longevity, compassion, wisdom, clarity, creativity, peak embodiment, personal growth, interpersonal harmony, and inner peace.
All human beings have access to a deep, trustworthy Source of Wisdom that penetrates all Creation — a Still Inner Core of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, healing, growth, and guidance.
The application of the behavioral and cognitive skills of Applied Meditation Therapy® provides a deeply embodied means for practicing a compassionate relationship with your true self while faithfully listening to that Inner Source of Wisdom at the Core of your mental, emotional, and physical life.
Through this marriage of self-compassion and deep bodily listening, you will identify an innate preverbal awareness capable of objectively witnessing mental content, behavioral dynamics, and subtle psychoneurophysical interactions that previously were inaccessible to your conscious awareness.
AMT represents the distillation of forty years of educational, psychological, and empirical research and practice into the deepest prehistorical root of the enduring human science known as "embodied life meditation." The seated practice and lived principles of AMT are based on findings of an Original Root of Meditation with an embodied practice longevity of over 5,000 years.
This Root Body of Meditation was originally indicated in the daily life embodiment of the Taoist Ancients in prehistorical China — alluded to in the I Ching (c.2500 BC) and the Tao Te Ching (c.500 BC). The same Original Root Body of Meditation also emerged in India around 531 BC when a human being known as the historical Buddha intuitively realized and embodied it as "Dhyana" — later transmitted to China as Chan, and then to Japan as Zen.
Applied Meditation Therapy® supports all religions and is not contrary to any spiritual life views. The psychobehavioral tools of AMT are objective procedures for working with yourself and the interdependent dynamics of your body, mind, heart, spirit, and relationships. If you are religiously inclined, AMT will help you clarify and fulfill your unique experience of faith.
Develop insight into causal connections between thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors
Change unhealthy dependencies into wholesome life coping strategies and growth-affirming responses
Refine behavioral impulse control amidst obsessive thoughts, strong desires, and intense emotions
Enhance inner listening skills, empathy, intuition, self-knowledge, and interpersonal communication
Nourish gratitude, compassion, forgiveness, and appreciation for yourself and others
Diminish and transform the energies of stress and pain while enhancing bodily vitality
Lower hypertension and high blood pressure while easing resting heart rate
Increase concentration, self-esteem, creativity, spontaneity, and depth of awareness
Restore original human values while clarifying vision, meaning, purpose, and passionate life goals
Recover and nurture wonder, sacredness, mystery, and peace
Passionately live the Way of loving and being loved beyond resistance and fear
Lucidly actualize your dreams far beyond grasping, desiring, and expecting
Individual and group sessions available worldwide via video. Begin your practice today.