tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post639787161929097759..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Bad Mental HabitsStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-13532468325319387242014-10-30T09:15:14.824-07:002014-10-30T09:15:14.824-07:00Byron Katie is someone who has done alot against &...Byron Katie is someone who has done alot against "Jumping to conclusions", and she has a program she calls "The Work" to help clarify truth and perception.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie<br />------<br />The Work is a way of identifying and questioning any stressful thought. It consists of four questions and a turnaround. This is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. The four questions are: <br />1) Is it true? <br />2) Can you absolutely know that it's true? <br />3) How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? and <br />4) Who would you be without the thought?<br />The turnaround involves considering the thought in a reversed form--changing subject and object, changing yes and no, or changing it to be self-referential.<br />------<br /><br />And its not just about "negative thinking" but any sort of thinking that we're attached to. What feels positive now might feel negative later when its falseness becomes apparent, and vice versa, especially if we're working new better habits that take time to learn, but seem impossibly tedious and unnatural at the moment.<br /><br />I remember once when I was feeling overly ambitious I realized that, theoretically, everytime I learn something new, I ought to review every memory on that subject and test its consistency with the new data, and of course its unrealistic, but in certain situations where there's one final judgement of an event or truth, like being a detective or scientist, where you've made 12 deductive steps in series based on false information, going back to square one and looking over all the evidence again is the only way you can be sure you're not deceiving yourself.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com