Gyan Yog: A Pathway to Resolve Cognitive Distortions

Abstract

In the sacred Hindu text, Bhagwad Gita, the lesson of Gyan Yog is the bridge towards spiritual liberation including self-awareness, discernment, and detachment. On the contrary, the concept of cognitive distortion that is studied in cognitive psychology illustrates the unstructured thought pattern in which an individual amplifies the situation and its experiences and makes it worse this includes overgeneralization, catastrophizing, etc.  In this study, the researcher explored the concept of Gyan Yog taught in Bhagwad Gita and put it parallel to the modern psychology concept of cognitive therapy. In conclusion, this research paper depicts the importance of Gyan Yog which contains self-awareness, discernment, and detachment integrating it with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy could be an effective way of handling cognitive distortions, this study also highlights the significant role of ancient scriptures in modern mental health intervention.