Name of Lecture: …Getting Rid of Bad Thoughts: Emotion Exposure Approach to Alleviate Suffering

Name of Speaker: …A. Delorme 

Program Time: …3-4pm

Location: ...Seema Dental College

Name of Chairman:…Rael Cahn

Name of Reporter: …Greg Smith

Reference Material/Presentation/Other Information Collected: … 

Main Points of the Lecture: .... Studies have indicated the efficacy of meditation in manipulating brain wave activity affecting attention.

The importance of attention to emotion or emotional intelligence, which has parenthetically, been shown to differ from cognitive intelligence, is fundamental in the management of pain. Conversely, the avoidance of negative emotion in response to mental or physical pain leads to dissociative disorders and to alexithymia.

There is a three part emotional apprehension process of which the lack of any of the three parts leads to toxic emotions. 1. Emotion must be felt. 2. Emotion must be labeled. 3. Emotion must be accepted.

Questions and Answers (name of person and details of question): …

Q: In the case of a wound will acceptance of pain have some consequence in healing the wound?

A: Not a complete analgesic, but some to cut the pain will heal the wound.

Q: Can you distinguish the difference between labeling and emotion and judging an emotion?

A: The process of labeling to some degree implies a judgment. It is unavoidable.