Therapy

According to the The American HeritageR Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, therapy is the:

1. Treatment of illness or disability.
2. Psychotherapy.
3. Healing power or quality: the therapy of fresh air and sun.


With this definition, we have many forms of therapy today covering all ranges of physical, mental, emotional topics. People seek therapy to better understand their behaviors and to gain better insight to one self. Though the reasons of the need for therapy is vast the benefits of thereapy are: in that therapy or counseling helps people in many ways with various problems. It can help people in achieving increased self-awareness; develop better understanding them themselves and others. Therapy can help people learn how to deal more effectively with situations in their lives such as divorce, addictions, stress, and domestic violence etc. Therapy can help people learn how to live/cope with mental illnesses such as compulsions, phobias, post-traumatic stress syndrome and many other conditions.

Meditation is sometimes described as "listening to the silence between thoughts". Our effort in meditation is directed towards consciously increasing the periods of such silence.