Posts by Rex Alexander:
Yes you can’t!

Can’t is a damned interesting word, responsible for much mischief. With few exceptions, it is simply a cognitive distortion. However, when I say that, you may automatically tune out, assuming I that I am about to rehash some chestnut from my Dale Carnegie-Napoleon Hill,-Norman Vincent Peale-Jim Robbins bag of “positive thinking” tricks. Not so! I promise!
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Originally posted 2015-03-06 06:15:07.
New Feature: Your Opinion Matters!
We are starting a new regular column called “Your Opinion Matters!” Originally posted 2013-04-29 05:40:18.
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Is anythnig ever truly 100% awful?
I enjoy the General Semantics (actually, more “ePrime”) exercise of debating whether anything is ever truly 100% awful. Originally posted 2013-02-08 19:20:50.
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Mindfulness Meditation & REBT (?)
Most people don’t realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel. ~Jon Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness author, founder of mindfulness based stress reduction. Originally posted 2017-06-17 20:35:14.
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Enhance your meditation practice with “MUSE”
Originally posted 2019-12-17 17:46:35.
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Is drinking alcohol rational?
We were discussing whether the use of alcohol is (ever) rational, and it resulted in the following rant on my part. Excuse me if my bias is showing just a wee tad! Originally posted 2013-02-15 18:41:00.
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Not fair!
Originally posted 2018-12-14 21:39:16.
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With love, for all of you Gloomy Gus, Swede Bashers, and Nattering Nabobs of Negativity . . . Originally posted 2019-06-05 20:35:40.
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