Happiness of your life depends upon the the quality of your thoughts

Posted by Rex Alexander on Thu 27 Sep 18 in Events, General Semantics, Happiness, quotes, Rational Thinking, REBT & Other therapies compared | ∞

“The happiness of your life depends upon the the quality of your thoughts.” ~Marcus Aurelius

Tags: acceptance, Marcus Aurelius, serenity prayer, stoic

“Thank Goodness I’m Alive” by Daniel Dennett

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Happiness, meditation, Mindfulness, quotes, Rational living, Rational Thinking, REBT & Other therapies compared | ∞

Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, a “new atheist”, one of the so called “The Four Horsemen.” Prof. Dennett was invited to the 2006 meeting of the “Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival” conference, but just […]

Tags: acceptance, Daniel Dennett, gratitude, meditation, videos

Oh well!

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Disputing | ∞

Oh well! One of the most useful and powerful REBT-CBT disputation tools!

Tags: acceptance, disputing, oh well

Depression following benzodiazepine withdrawal

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Addictions, Alcoholism, Compulsions, Ask Rex, Depression, Uncategorized | ∞

Mick wrote: "cannot help but feel that my life has been ruined by this withdrawal process. 10 months out and I am in another wave. I have so much brain fog its unreal, as well as many, many many other debilitating symptoms. I lost the person whom I thought that I would marry one day. […]

Tags: acceptance, addiction, addictions, Benzodiazepines, benzos, withdrawal

Let’s all become Mr. Spock and get rid of emotions! Not!!!

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Anxiety, Emotions, Low Frustration Tolerance, Rational living, Rational Thinking, Shame attacking exercise | ∞

Let’s all become Mr. Spock and get rid of emotions! . . . Not!!! Not ???

Tags: acceptance, emotions, logic, mr. spock, rational, rational thinking, spock, star trek

Will Unconditional Self Acceptance make me lose my edge?

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Ask Rex, Perfectionism, Self esteem, self vs. behavior, Success & Achievement, Task Perfection vs. Self Perfection, USA | ∞

Sean B. in Florida writes: Rex. I think I understand the idea of unconditional self acceptance, in theory at least. But I am afraid that adopting it will cause me to lose my edge and stop striving for excellence in my career. If I accept myself unconditionally, then do I have to accept it if I […]

Tags: acceptance, perfectionism, performance, performance anxiety, self-perfection, task-perfection, ULA, unconditional life acceptance, unconditional other acceptance, unconditional self acceptance, UOA, USA

Self acceptance is not a “thing.”

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Self esteem, USA | ∞

Here is a good one from the 2008 archives about self-esteem and self acceptance: By refusing to “devalue yourself because of your ignorance” perhaps you do understand more than you think.

Tags: acceptance, self-acceptance, self-esteem

American exceptionalism (REBT style)

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in General Semantics, overgeneralization, People Rating, Rating | ∞

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

Tags: acceptance, evaluations, judgments, labels, name calling, rating, self, self-esteem

Life after people (?)

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Books & Media, Depression, Other stuffs | ∞

Please watch the wonderful-but-chilling and sobering 2015 documentary “Life After people” It explores what would happen if human beans suddenly disappeared, how long it would take for the Earth to “reclaim” us and leave no trace that we human beans had ever existed. It is a mind blowing short period of time. How long do […]

Tags: acceptance, future, futurism, history, Life After People

Are opinions incompatible with REBT-CBT?

Posted by Rex Alexander on Fri 21 Sep 18 in Acceptance, Demanding, Events, Rating, ULA, UOA, USA | ∞

Are opinions incompatible with REBT??? What do you think?

Tags: acceptance, opinion, opinions

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