Dr. Alok Kanojia

This is who they are.

And we can psychotherapize them to be someone else.

for their natural thoughts to change, for the way that they see the world to change, for their behaviors to change on its own.

It doesn't require, willpower is necessary when you are trying to not be narcissistic.

It is not necessary when you are no longer narcissistic.

So we've done it in psychotherapy.

We know that if your self-esteem changes, if your sense of being changes, treatment refractory depression will change.

Trauma, PTSD will change.

Do you have your patients do NIDRA?

Some of them.

So I also have a whole, I mean, I just started this research and then left academia, but I was trying to develop evidence-based protocols for particular diagnoses for certain kinds of meditation practices.

Beautiful.

Right, so for narcissism, I would lean into Shunya practices.

For trauma healing and specifically the patients who come in who need a fundamental belief change.

If they just didn't believe this thing about themselves.

So I had one patient who had a lot of trauma.

And the Sankalpa that she came up with or that we came up with together is I deserve to be whole, not I am whole.

And then if you think about a Sankalpa, that's a compass that you will navigate life with.

So the main thing is once it gets into her mind, I deserve to be whole.

If people, even her own, she had a lot of self-sabotaging behaviors.