Motivation and Morita Therapy

• Morita Therapy by Shoma Morita, a Japanese psychiatrist: Zen Buddhism - Feelings are natural responses to life circumstances. One should accept one's internal experiences without question. The attention to one's internal experiences is what actually causes suffering.
• Instead of trying to change thoughts and feelings or get rid of them, one should learn to accept them and learn to coexist with them.
• Accept your automatic thoughts and feelings are not within your controls, then act for a purpose. And the purpose (of DBT) is to create a life worth being present in.
• You don't need to act on those competing thoughts because you are acting for your purpose.