Prefer an Internal Orientation for Outlook & Problem Solving
- Garden will teach you an easy and effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT) system.
External Versus Internal: Do you have an internal or an external orientation to life? And does it matter? Which is better? Which to do when?
- Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people play games with your mind and heart.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
External Versus Internal
- Is it better to face inward or outward to manage your life?
External Versus Internal—Clients come to counseling with two wrong beliefs:
- There is an external problem that is causing their misery.
- There is an external solution to their misery.
External Versus Internal—Successful clients leave with two opposite beliefs:
- There is an internal problem that is causing their misery.
- There is an internal solution to their misery.
External Versus Internal—Where Is the Most Power?
- Since people have great power over their internal sources of misery and often little power over their external sources of misery—the change from an external orientation to an internal orientation is a major goal of effective and sane counseling.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
External Versus Internal: 6 Steps of Feelings & Behaviors
- Information on the STPHFR model.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
External Versus Internal: Quotations from Various Sources
Listed Alphabetically
“A fool is only a fool because he won’t see he is a fool.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” —James Joyce
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” —Hebrews 12:8
“By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 194
“Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.” —Proverbs 15:5
“Failure doesn’t have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.” —Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 206
“For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” —Hebrews 12:6
“If we eliminated all errors, we would also eliminate much discovery, art, insight, learning, and creativity that results from facing errors.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?” —Hebrews 12:7
“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:” —Proverbs 3:11
“The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.” —Mencius
“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.” —Julien Green
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” —Norman Vincent Peale
“When receiving correction, the wise seeks to learn, and the fool seeks to justify with excuses.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
External Versus Internal: Quotations from Scripture
Listed Biblically
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:” —Proverbs 1:5
“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” —Proverbs 11:14
“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” —Proverbs 12:15
“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.” —Proverbs 12:20
“Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.” —Proverbs 15:22
“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.” —Proverbs 19:20
“Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.” —Proverbs 20:18
“Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.” —Isaiah 16:3
“Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull [straying alone.]” —Ecclesiasticus 6:2
“As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.” —Ecclesiasticus 22:16
“Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 30:21
“A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.” —Ecclesiasticus 32:18
“And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.” —Ecclesiasticus 37:13
“Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action.” —Ecclesiasticus 38:33
“Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both.” —Ecclesiasticus 40:25
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
External Versus Internal: Related Pages of Free Information
- CBT, CT, & REBT Cognitive Psychotherapies: List Pages
- Coping Skills: Free Help
- Counseling Issues: Free Help
- Emotional Responsibility: List Pages
- Exercises & Techniques: List Pages
- REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy): List Pages
- Responsibility Issues: Shoelaces Parable on Responsibility
- Self-Esteem Issues: List Pages
- Thinking Skills: Seven Thinking Errors of CT
- Unconditional Self-Esteem (USE): Defined
- Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people play games with your mind and heart.
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
External Versus Internal: 6 Groups of Topics Menu
- 1. Pages by Topic
- 2. Fast-Facts by Topic
- 3. Quotations by Topic
- 4. Poems by Topic
- 5. Scripture by Topic
- 6. Websites by Topic
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.
External Versus Internal: 9 Skills & Topics Menu
- 1. Anger Skills & Topics
- 2. Blame Skills & Topics
- 3. Communication Skills & Topics
- 4. Coping Skills & Topics
- 5. Counseling Skills & Topics
- 6. Praying Skills & Topics
- 7. Recovery Skills & Topics
- 8. Responsibility Skills & Topics
- 9. Thinking Skills & Topics
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- External Versus Internal: This book will help you understand the difference.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.