Accentuate the Rational, Eliminate the Woo-woo Redux

Posted by Rex Alexander on Wed 2 Jul 25 in Uncategorized with Comments closed |

The Shocking Truth About “Positive Thinking”

by Rex Alexander (with some help from Perplexity)
Wed 2 Jul 2025

Dear readers, thank you for joining me on this journey. This article still needs some work, but it is an important and timely update to and expansion of my original article from many years ago, Accentuate the Rational, Eliminate the Woo-woo

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Your participation in our life blood!

Posted by Rex Alexander on Wed 2 Jul 25 in Uncategorized with Comments closed |

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Originally posted 2017-07-14 06:31:10.

Posted by Rex Alexander on Tue 1 Jul 25 in Books & Media, bookshop, Rational living, Uncategorized with Comments closed |


Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
~Rex 
   

 

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Originally posted 2019-06-28 17:55:59.

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REBT

Posted by Rex Alexander on Tue 1 Jul 25 in Albert Ellis, Basics, REBT, REBT & Other therapies compared with Comments closed |
Read the Wikipedia article about REBT Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy 

 

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Originally posted 2017-10-23 06:52:38.

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American exceptionalism (REBT style)

Posted by Rex Alexander on Mon 30 Jun 25 in General Semantics, overgeneralization, People Rating, Rating with Comments closed |

greatest

On another thread, we have been discussing America being the greatest country in the world, that is so called “American Exceptionalism.” Read more…

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Originally posted 2016-06-17 05:30:58.

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The Beck Diet Solution

Posted by Rex Alexander on Mon 30 Jun 25 in Aaron Beck, Addictions, Alcoholism, Compulsions, Books & Media, Cognitve (Behavior) Therapy with Comments closed |


The Beck Diet Solution

by Judith S. Beck

This time, it’s going to be different. This time, you are going to diet successfully . . . 

 

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Originally posted 2017-10-30 04:41:55.

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Avoid shoulds, oughts, musts!

Posted by Rex Alexander on Sun 29 Jun 25 in Demanding, Demanding, Homework, must, musty thinking, Should with Comments closed |

HOMEWORK

Avoid using moralistic, absolutist “shoulds”, “oughts”, “musts”, et al. We don’t want to be rigid and dogmatic in this (and in all things). While keeping in mind there are perfectly innocuous uses of “should”, “ought”, “must”, it is nonetheless an excellent discipline to make the effort to avoid them, and to monitor yourself using these terms, whether directed at others or yourself. Then, when you notice that you have used one of these terms, practice replacing it with something less demanding. For example

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Originally posted 2018-06-06 18:05:14.

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Posted by Rex Alexander on Sun 29 Jun 25 in Basics, Books & Media, Uncategorized with Comments closed |

 Raymond A. DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., ABPP,  Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Institutional Review Board, has studied anger as a clinical problem and has promoted the recognition of anger as a form of psychopathology . . . 

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Originally posted 2019-03-03 17:41:23.

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Posted by Rex Alexander on Sat 28 Jun 25 in Books & Media, bookshop, hypnosis, REBT & Other therapies compared, Uncategorized with Comments closed |
Learn more about hypnosis and how it relates to REBT-CBT . . .

 

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Originally posted 2019-05-09 20:43:44.

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Posted by Rex Alexander on Sat 28 Jun 25 in Uncategorized, z-monthly with Comments closed |

Thought as Sensation

When we encounter the word “sensation,” I guess most of us immediately think of physical or tactile sensations such as, heat, cold, pressure, tingling, pain, etc. However, the application of the definition is much broader than that. It can and does describe various mental processes that arise from an external stimulation of a sense organ.

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Originally posted 2022-08-12 18:15:34.

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