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pickthebrain.com — After months of seeing a therapist this year, I come across this article. It would have saved me a bundle to get this information beforehand. ;-)
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- DocKC, on 07/23/2008, -3/+4Great article! Also, great blog! You should add it to www.GLCzone.com. Great site for health related blogs to get you traffic and exposure to everyone!
- pinkpackrat, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Great post--nothing new here but so well explained and illustrated. We are all human and we are all our own worst enemies--happiness is definitely an inside job:-)
- Falldog, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2"Hundred's Of $$$'s"
>_< - dawnraid101, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2O rly.
- VideoHost1, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Ever see a motorcycle in front of a therapist office?
Theres a reason for it
Get a bike - SuperWinner, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1I should have read this, but its probably a waste of time. All articles like this are stupid, I'm sure I could have written a better one.
- macwac, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1Hopefully useful to some of my friends, so passed it on. Many thanks!
- algaeturd, on 07/24/2008, -1/+0Most people who are plagued by psychological problems are driven to the local bookshelves in the self-help section and any of them worth their ink and paper should have these clearly stated. The problem is that most don't point out the basics.
I'm not a huge believer in the power of positive thinking but I do know that negative thinking can plague people. The key is to fall somewhere in between. Fall too high up on the scale and you could end up as one of those super fake, pretentious, really tanned people that give motivational speeches for a living.
Moderation in all things; even when it comes to being 'positive.' - grneye53, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Yeah we call the 8 paths of thinking a "Presidential Cabinet" and Thank God they're leaving soon. That clear up a lot of thoughts!
- Rotzooi, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1This describes Diggers very accurately indeed.
The 8 patterns of limited thinking:
-Overgeneralization
-Polarized Thinking
-Filtering (Tunnel Vision)
-Mind Reading (Making Snap Judgments)
-Catastrophizing
-Magnifying
-Personalization (Comparing)
-Shoulds (Inflexible rules on how to act)- jstohler, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Interestingly, they all apply to Bush as well.
- bonzotunes, on 07/24/2008, -0/+0I think the biggest thing to take away from this article is the idea that most of the assumptions, thoughts, and feelings we experience in our everyday life are completely generated between our ears and have little to do with what's REALLY happening around us.
I know I occasionally suffer from reading too much into things, blowing the negative out of proportion, and making judgment calls based on emotion rather than fact. So, from this article (and from those pretty valuable therapy sessions), I have learned to pull back from whatever negative things I'm thinking or feeling, look at things from a more factual/objective point of view (what supports or nulls my current POV), and then see if I can get a more objective view on the situation. Then, ACTION. That's important. After all this, you have to ACT based your new found viewpoint.
Nothing tanned, fake, or pretentious about that method, I hope.
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