Nisarga Yoga and Rational Emotive Therapy

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Nisarga Yoga and Rational Emotive Therapy approach the mind in

similar ways. NY advocates net-neti and RET propounds accurate self-

analysis. Both encourage the enquirer to analyze mind and discard

any falsehoods found there.

 

NY says, " See the false as false. " So does RET.

 

The sentence, " I'll never be able to do this " translated into E-Prime

would become, " I may have difficulty doing this " It is more rational

and closer to the truth than the first sentence and conforms to Dr.

Albert Ellis' principles of Rational Emotive Therapy. Nisarga Yoga

looks deeper and sees more falsity there: the 'I' is false;

the 'difficulty' is false; the 'doing' is false; and the 'this' is

false. The entire sentence is negated.

 

What is left?

 

Truth.

 

Yes but, in the 'real' world, one must learn how to deal with

emotions rationally on a practical level instead of denying them or

mixing them up. And so, I find that NY is good for metaphysics but

quite impractical for dealing with the physical and mental aspects of

life.

 

Dr Ellis discovered that there was more to non-Aristotelianism than

he first thought. He found it so enlightening that he applied it to

his practice of psychotherapy and even had all his books re-written

in English Prime - the English language without the verb 'to be' in

any of its forms or derivatives included in it.

 

Non-Aristotelian thinking demands alot of analytical skill. To see

wether or not a sentence is true, one need look at how many 'to be'

verbs there are in it. Usually, one or more inaccuracies can be

found. Errors can be corrected on the verbal level when once one's

perception of the present is adjusted to conform to the reality of

what's going on and not to what one wants to go on in his

imagination. Analytical skill is the art of telling the difference

between fact and inference.

 

" Silver "