More About Karuna Cayton

The Misleading Mind:  How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them

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"...a real life, practical roadmap for understanding your emotions and how to effectively deal with them. This book really can bring awareness and change to your life-provided that you are willing to practice and make the positive changes."

Psychotherapist and author Karuna Cayton introduces a process for working with, rather than against, depression, anxiety, and stress by recognizing the habitual ways our minds perceive, react, and ultimately mislead us. He also presents practical exercises for stepping onto the path of a radically liberating self-understanding. While the essence of the wisdom he presents is central to Buddhism, he covers it in a way that is accessible to all. KARUNA CAYTON is the author of The Misleading Mind. He's a psychotherapist who spent twelve years working with Tibetan refugees in Nepal and studying with Buddhist masters. His Karuna Group practice applies Buddhist psychology to individual and organizational clients.

Karuna as spent time helping C-Suite level executives evaluate priorities and successfully employ methods that cause more company and societal benefits.

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Karuna has been a psychotherapist, business psychologist, and coach. His goal is to help people achieve mental and emotional balance by developing a healthy mind.

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Through the Karuna Group his practice based in Soquel, California, he uses modern psychology and secular principles of Buddhist psychology in simple and clear terms so people can use these ideas in everyday life, regardless of their religious or cultural background.

Understanding the mind better allows people to attain greater happiness both personally and in the workplace, which helps them contribute to a more healthy and harmonious organizational culture.