EmotionalizeBehaviorTrainingRelated Pages6 Groups of Topics9 Skills & Topics
Humans Are Emotionally Controlled
- Garbage Rules will prod you to face the self-defeating thinking that’s keeping you addicted.
- Ego will help you to understand and overcome the underlying problem in your addiction.
“Vices are never genuinely tamed.” —Seneca
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ACCEPT EMOTIONAL CONTROL
- Accept the fact that your emotions control your choices.
- Reason justifies emotion.
- Emotion causes motion.
- Now learn to emotionalize what is good for you.
HOW TO EMOTIONALIZE A CHANGE
- What are you already emotional about?
- You can link that by association to whatever behavior or belief that you want to have instead.
- What are you angry about? What are you glad about? What are you sad about?
- To emotionalize a change in behavior or belief, pick something that you already feel the way that you want to feel about that change.
- Then you can attach those already existing feelings to your new behaviors or beliefs by associating those behaviors or thoughts with those feelings.
- You associate through holding in mind both together long and often enough that they become paired (grouped, linked) in your mind.
USE MIND-MOVE (M-M) TO EMOTIONALIZE
- You can Mind-Move (M-M) your new belief or behavior to connect it to your calm heart.
- You can M-M your new behavior or belief along with a strong emotional memory.
- You can M-M your new behavior or belief along with a strong positive attitude or positive experience.
- You can M-M your new behavior or belief while having a slight smile (MonaLiza smile) to add some emotion.
- Breathe teaches the calming and coping skill Mind-Move (M-M).
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.
SELF-CONDITIONING TO EMOTIONALIZE
- You associate through repetition which is a form of self-conditioning.
- Mindless or inattentive repetition does little.
- Attentive, conscious, engaged, and involved repetition does much.
- You can choose to view your new behavior or belief emotionally.
- Swearing or using expletives sometimes helps to emotionalize things.
- You can forcefully tell yourself positive things about your new behavior or belief.
- You can defend your new behavior or belief until you emotionally feel closer to it.
- You can protect your new behavior or belief until you emotionally feel closer to it.
- You can feed your new behavior or belief time and energy until it becomes emotional.
- You can attach to (identify with) your new behavior or belief, but the attachment is itself a problem so this is not recommended.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON EMOTIONALIZING
Emotional power can come from:
- breathing, drinking, or eating that are dramatic, focused, or powerful
- choosing the forbidden and going against a strong taboo or conscience
- danger versus safety reactions
- dramatic or powerful sensing experiences
- heart contact, owning, taking to heart, or internally touching something
- making something important to your existence or continued life
- resistance or strong opposition
- self-identity or identifying with something
- sense responses that are powerful, like to a gorgeous sunset or nature view
- sensual responses that are powerful like to a deep healing massage
- something negative that is perceived as destroying, disintegrating, or ugly
- something that is perceived as difficult, grotesque, hard, stressful, or ugly
- survival responses that are highly triggered
- touching something with some of your existing emotions
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Related Pages of Free Information
- 8 Thinking Skills for Detaching
- Blame Issues: List of Pages
- Breathe teaches the calming and coping skill Mind-Move (M-M)
- Coping Skills: Free Help
- Coping Skills: Weakness Is Strength
- Deconstructivism: The Answer
- Recovery Issues: Free Help
- Use Negation, Not Destruction
- What Is Thinking Good For?
- Read to understand great self-help.
- Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.
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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.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.
9 Skills & Topics Menu
- 1. Anger Issues
- 2. Blame Issues
- 3. Communication Skills
- 4. Coping Skills
- 5. Counseling Issues
- 6. Praying Issues
- 7. Recovery Issues
- 8. Responsibility Issues
- 9. Thinking Skills
- Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.
