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32 Sin
What is the relationship between sin and punishment? We believe there is a cognitive connection. In fact, there is reason to believe that faith brings serenity because it provides a focus on positive thought that results in positive behavior that results in positive outcomes that results in reward and reinforcement.
32 The Pathological Critic
This technique is an adaption of the material in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew Mckay & Patrick Fanning. INTRODUCTION Definition The pathological critic is a term coined by psychologist Eugene Sagan to describe the negative...
33 Anomoly
Perception differs qualitatively from the physical properties of the stimulus. The nervous system extracts only certain information from the natural world. We perceive fluctuations of air pressure not as pressure waves but as sounds that we hear. We perceive...
33 Shoulds
This technique is an adaptation of the material in Chapter 7 in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning. Technique #33 Shoulds ‘Shoulds’ are a limited thinking pattern or cognitive error which are defined in...
33 Thinking Roles
One of the criteria for changing the way we think is to identify different ways to think about a common subject. This is a quick outline of the allegorical roles that might be assumed to help you change the way you think.
34 Reframing
The major source of this material is the book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Reframing, published in 1982. Additional sources are Bernard J. Baar’s A Cognitive Theory Of Consciousness, published in 1988, Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions, Leda Cosmides...
34 The Rules of Engagement
No amount of skill or quality of technique is sufficient to help people with problems in living, unless there is a trust relationship that sanctions the Mentor to give help. It is impossible to simply invent such a relationship; it pivots on who you are much more than what you do. However, even people with character sometime make mistakes in relating which destroys this critical path to helping.
35 Empathic Communication
The goal of every helper must be to first understand the person whom they serve. This requires a process of engaging that person in a kind of communication in which the person can and will share their innermost thoughts from which you can infer in a kind of retro engineering of their inner logic. Once the helper understands the inner logic of the person they are serving, they become capable of helping that person either change the inner logic or find better behaviors to serve their goals.
35 The Mirror Model
The following material is adapted from ‘THE 'MIRROR MODEL: A Guide to Reflective Questioning’ by Philip Harland, first published in Rapport magazine, Issue 42, Winter 1998. A Guide to Reflective Questioning "Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental...