Buddhist psychology uses meditation to develop concentration and insight. Through focusing on the breath, negative thoughts and repressed emotions surface without judgment. Deeper concentration is achieved by feeling warmth and observing thoughts without attachment. Insight is generated by exploring the origins of negative thoughts and emotions, which alters the thoughts and offsets the negative feelings, resulting in enlightenment.

1. Buddhist psychology: concentration + insight via meditation
1. concentration on breath = relaxation response (parasymthetic nervous system activation) + reminder of
infantile warmth in mother's womb (Classical conditioning e.g. Meridian Therapy - alpha brain wave + finger
tapping + eye rolling upward)
2. deepen concentration by identification with the objects (diaphagmatic breathing) == feel warm (positive
reinforcement)
3. Premack's principal: (+ve emotion offset -ve emotions of repressed materials) == negative thoughts begins to
surface
4. Not to identify with the content of the -ve thought by staying focused on the warmth experience of
concentrating on the breath
5. observe the repressed thought without critical judgement == dissociate the -ve emotions with negative thought
== dig deeper into the origin of the -ve thoughts
6. higher order conditioning of +ve emotions associated with concentration on breath & previous -ve thoughts
alreadry stripped of connotated -ve emotions (systematic desensitization)
7. Metacognitive skills of being aware of intrapsychic process instead of intrapsychic content = disidentification
with -ve thoughts)
8. Generation of insight alter the content of -ve thoughts & deep concentration attach you to warm emotions &
-ve emotions offset by deepene warmth & Diving deeper into origin of intense negative emotions without being
attached to the fallouts of orginally -ve thoughts and associated -ve emotions preventing u to dive deeper
9. All -ve emotions offset + -ve thougths altered so that meditation is no longer needed
10. apply to false self and ideal ego (already incorporated attributes of others or non-intrinsic self) ==
enlightenment?
11. Narrative counselling: Penduleum between concentration and insight; focus on process not content;
detachment; union with womb of mother == warmth