Validating Promoted Spiritual Experience

The Intervention is a CBT- based psychotherapeutic process that occurs in a group setting with two cohorts of 8 subjects each. It will occur in an introductory 3-hour session followed by 9 weekly 1 ½ hour sessions. In this process, self-worth (self-confidence, self-esteem, self-competence) and dignity (reason, compassion, courage) as operationally defined are strengthened through an interpersonal, psychological process including mindful self-awareness training, attitude transformation with self-compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance, and opens to a new level of awareness. This awareness opens to spiritual / numinous features of connectedness, vitality, wholeness, meaning, and serenity that are predicted to be associated with greater well-being and relief of anxiety and depression symptoms.