This article is a continuation of the previous one called “The Two Rays of the “Just Sun”,” in which I introduced a particular species of “worms.” By this I mean those thoughts in the mind that gnaw away at our psychological well-being by telling us that we know what the truth is – the whole […]
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Once, a man was walking near a cliff and fell. As he was falling, he managed to grab onto the branch of a small tree growing out of a crack in the rock. Hanging from the branch, shaken by the cold wind, the man realized the full hopelessness of his situation: below him were river […]
19.07.2011
Kathryn Schulz On Being Wrong
This is an eye-opening seventeen-minute presentation that is worth watching. If you choose to set aside the time and reach the image of the man walking in the air having just run off a cliff, I invite you also to read how life appears when it is not lived from the inner side of the […]
22.11.2010
On ABC Model in Cognitive Therapy
What, in your opinion, is the factor that most powerfully shapes the way we feel and act? According to cognitive psychotherapy, it is our thinking. The central premise of cognitive psychotherapy is that how we feel about a given thing depends far more on how we think about it than on the thing itself. This […]
30.05.2010
Reclaim your personal power
“There are thousands of agreements you have made with yourself, with other people, with your dream of life, with God, with society, with your parents, with your spouse and with your children. But the most important agreements are those made with yourself. In them, you declare who you are, what you feel, what you believe, […]
28.12.2009
Seven Ways to Misinterpret What Is Happening
The founder of the cognitive approach in psychotherapy, Aaron Beck, studied the ways in which people may have distorted perspective on reality. The following are among the most common of these distortions: 1. Black-and-white thinking In this type of cognitive distortion, we view things in terms of extremes: good or bad, perfect or worthless, success […]
