There is the 'Anchoring' of emotional states - though I've practised and practised but don't seem to get very far when I've tried anchoring happiness! Feelings...
Hello All, I was speaking to one of my best friends and here is what he told me. He is getting "bored" by his day to day life, same old rat race, same feeling...
<<. Increasing levels of happiness to a really high state ... Â Â like ? Â Â I think increasing levels of happiness to a real state not really high - to...
Hi Oak, You wrote: >>any advice that I can pass to him to make him cheerful...as I always see him "getting bored". And how REBT sees towards "Boredom"...<< ...
We can and do and have throughout existence. This is "musterbation", anti-REBT, a neurotic encouraging mass neurosis Gone is the "change" and out of Iraq in 16...
... <lifeforms99@...> ... I respectfully agree and disagree. If you mean living in an eternal state of bliss then I would agree REBT probably won't help you...
In my opinion, the 'pleasure predicting exercise' is one of the most effective techniques ever engineered to eleviate depression and loneliness and has always...
Great post. Reminds me to read all other posts before replying to people. Says what I tried to but more eloquently and with a good dosage of swear words to...
Maybe it is a beauty, but a limit too. dealing with rejection and reducing depression is certainly a REBT job. But, finding a girlfriend it is NOT the opposite...
Why is this view in REBT that reducing misery automatically enhance positive feelings ? Â Negative and positive emotions do not have the same brain circuit...
Tue 2 Dec 08, 6:55 am Agreed. Both REBT and CBT strongly encourage us to pursue activities and interests which bring pleasure. Personally I don't like to...
Tue 2 Dec 08, 7:10 am You misunderstand, BA. The "pleasure predicting exercise" is a behavior modification, it is an activity with he specific goal of...
Hello Rex, I have read a number of books by David Burns. What are some of the areas that Burn's covers that REBT/Ellis does not? I have never seen the pleasure...
The scientific literature doesn't use the word happiness. They speak about positive affect or positive emotions. Â So negative and positive emotions are...
Tue 2 Dec 08, 11:36 am Hi Brandon, all, I read Burns and Ellis at the same time and didn't take pains to become overly-familiar with the differences. However,...
Hello Rex, I have not read "intimate connections" for about 10 years. I am a very assertive person. I am not shy at all. I am looking for a girlfriend at the...
Tue 2 Dec 08, 3:38 pm Probably mostly pitched toward people who are shy . . . but it has been a long time since I have read it cover-to-cover as well....
some girls like shy boys. they even want shy boys. so I don't see any problem in shyness. I have a problem of not being shy and I want to learn to be a shy...
Hi Mo I completeley agree, and I know that finding 'bliss' and constant positive affect is not only unrealistic it is showing a high degree of Low Frustration...
I simply use the word 'state' as in the NLP usage - to describe the mood, behaviours, stance and attitude of a particular pattern of physiology. Im only...
Hello All, You might have seen the recent terrorist attacks at Mumbai, India. I am from Bangalore, India and read in today's newspaper that after a week when...
Sorry for the late reply Steve. What else should I say, Procrastination on my part. :) In fact, I had read the chapter(s) on the assigned weeks and only ...
This turned out to be my favorite of the Book and I think I should revisit it again to grasp the concepts completely and put the learnings to use. ... Yes,...
Hi Senthil, You wrote: >>You might have seen the recent terrorist attacks at Mumbai, India. ... What does REBT practitioners suggest? Any papers and...
Wills answer hits the spot exactly. There are also other techniques if you want to research them with an open mind: The Rewind/VK Dissociation/Fast Phobia Cure...
how will it be to learn to identify coping and defensive behavior associated with irrational beliefs that we engage to avoid unhealty negative emotions?...
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