WHY BOTHER TO BE HAPPY? Why do we feel happy? Why do we feel anything at all? Why has evolution endowed us with emotional states that are so insistent, so consuming, and so . well, so present . that we run our very lives around them? Citeste tot ...
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When People Won t Take Your Recognition
When People Won t Take Your Recognition Receiving reinforcement, like giving reinforcement, is also a skill. And, as with giving reinforcement, receiving it is a learned behavior. Some children spend their growing up years unable Citeste tot ...
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Receiving Recognition Gracefully
Receiving Recognition Gracefully If you are one of those people who have a hard time receiving reinforcement, don t force yourself to bubble over with enthusiasm when a person reinforces you. You won t be comfortable with it and Citeste tot ...
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Putting It All Together
Putting It All Together With all of the difficulties and intricacies we ve identified in giving and receiving recognition, how can it ever work just right? Don t give up yet. V.1. Thanks For The Thanks Citeste tot ...
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Why Isn t This Stuff Working
Why Isn t This Stuff Working? There are many obstacles in the path of reinforcement. The major obstacle is that attempts at recognition may not be received well, even though the person making the effort may have the best of int Citeste tot ...
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Giving Quality Recognition
Giving Quality Recognition I.1. Positive Reinforcement And Recognition The findings shared in this book are based on 18 years of experience in discovering the most effective ways to give positive recognition to people in Citeste tot ...
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Assassin s Creed
Overview The overall story within Assassin s Creed is set in September of 2012, where barkeeper Desmond Miles has been kidnapped by an unknown person prior to the start of the game, and is brought to Abstergo Industries, where researchers are w Citeste tot ...
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Establish the desired attitude cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally
Establish the desired attitude cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally. As stated in the general idea above, there is a cognitive, an emotional, and a behavioral component to every attitude, just as there are five parts to every problem (c Citeste tot ...
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Develop self-improvement instructions to give yourself during hypnosis or while using mental imagery
Develop self-improvement instructions to give yourself during hypnosis or while using mental imagery. The self-instructions may reflect a new attitude towards others or yourself, a different way of thinking, a post-hypnotic suggestion for a ch Citeste tot ...
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Identify the feelings and the circumstances in which you experience unwanted emotions
Identify the feelings and the circumstances in which you experience unwanted emotions. Write each upsetting situation on the top of a 3 X 5 card. The irrational ideas discussed in step 1 may have sounded familiar. If so, perhaps you can start Citeste tot ...
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Recognize common errors in thinking and arguments
STRAIGHT THINKING, COMMON SENSE, AND GOOD ARGUMENTS Steps STEP ONE: Recognize common errors in thinking and arguments. I think it will amaze and maybe horrify you to see how many ways the human mind makes mistakes. This isn t a comp Citeste tot ...
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Trying a new life style (Fixed Role Therapy)
Trying a new life style (Fixed Role Therapy) A generation ago, George Kelly (1963) observed that people have certain views and explanations of what is happening in their lives. Thus, every one is a scientist; we all have theories about the wo Citeste tot ...
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Develop other skills and methods that enhance your critical, clear thinking
Develop other skills and methods that enhance your critical, clear thinking. We all have learned about scientific methods in many classes throughout school. These methods help us think straight and, hopefully, realize there are many possible Citeste tot ...
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SELF-HYPNOSIS AND MENTAL IMAGERY
SELF-HYPNOSIS AND MENTAL IMAGERY With a little practice, most people can be hypnotized and can use self-hypnosis. Hypnosis allows us to experience thoughts, fantasies and images as almost real (Soskis, 1986). The hypnotized person knows th Citeste tot ...
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DETERMINISM
DETERMINISM Determinism: accepting all behavior, thoughts, and feelings as being the inevitable--lawful--outcome of complex psychological laws describing cause and effect relationships in human behavior. Understanding the causes of any beh Citeste tot ...
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Prepare a specific method for inducing self-hypnosis
Prepare a specific method for inducing self-hypnosis. You may want to be hypnotized by a trained person first, he/she can then teach you how to do self-hypnosis (Soskis, 1986). Or, you can memorize the general induction process and give self- Citeste tot ...
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PARADOXICAL INTENTION
PARADOXICAL INTENTION Steps STEP ONE: Make plans to take a paradoxical approach to your problem. As implied by the various examples given above, there are many paradoxical techniques but they can be lumped roughly into three major a Citeste tot ...
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Trying a new life style (Fixed Role Therapy)
Trying a new life style (Fixed Role Therapy) A generation ago, George Kelly (1963) observed that people have certain views and explanations of what is happening in their lives. Thus, every one is a scientist; we all have theories about the wo Citeste tot ...
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Uncovering self-deception: self-con and self-hype
Uncovering self-deception: self-con and self-hype. It s nice to like yourself. Having self-esteem helps us be happy, healthy, and effective. So, we select friends and do things that make us feel good. But we also present ourselves to others i Citeste tot ...
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Become familiar with self-hypnosis and/or mental imagery
Become familiar with self-hypnosis and/or mental imagery. There are several things to learn. First, you need to get a 'feel' for what is involved--some basic understanding. Second, you learn a simple procedure for inducing self-hypn Citeste tot ...