Self-ControlHow the Mind WorksControl Is CorruptedRelated Pages6 Groups of Topics10 Skills & Topics
How Self-Control Works in
Feeling-Intention Therapy
Discover how self-control works. When you understand how self-control works, you can do it better.
- Garden will teach you an easy and effective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy system (CBT & REBT) system.
- Ego will help you to live sane in an insane world of competing ego stories.
- Stiffer: Stoic Mind will teach you the STPHFR system to Gain a Stoic Mind.
Notes on this Update for Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT)
- These two tables add information on how we control ourselves.
- It is important to understand how the control works and how it fails.
- You can do better when you understand what you are doing.
- Read for the best understanding in the world of feelings and intentions.
How Self-Control Works
- This Fast-Fact is about the nature of self-control.
- This Fast-Fact is about learning how to control yourself.
- Information on the nature of the mind.
New Information
- The above table provides the steps that we take to perform an action.
- Information on this process can be found in the book Feeling-Intention Therapy.
- Test it for yourself and see how wrong people are that we are rational or thinking creatures.
- We are driven by doubled sensations and our feelings about those sensations.
Caveat About Order of Control
- The single most important thing in life is energy because energy is life.
- The second most important thing in life is sensations because sensations are proof of life.
- However, the human order for self-control does follow the above model starting with doubled sensations and not with energy or pure sensations.
- Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.
- Read for the best understanding in the world of feelings and intentions.
How Self-Control Gets Distorted & Corrupted
- This Fast-Fact is about how our self-control gets misguided.
- This Fast-Fact is about learning how your control goes wrong.
- Information on the nature of the mind.
Some of the Processes that Control What Sensations Get Added
- Scripts, life stories, self-programming, and life expectations can cover, force, start, or stop matched sensations.
- Assumptions, beliefs, doctrines, ideologies, and theories can cover, force, start, or stop matched sensations.
- Opinions, outlooks, perspectives, and viewpoints can cover, force, start, or stop matched sensations.
- The needs of the ego not to look bad and to look good often override all other considerations.
- We would want each experience to be fresh and new so our matched sensations are clear and true, but survival demands we use memory, and memory demands bias and prejudice.
- It can take a lot of effort to look with a clear and clean mind at something old or new.
- It is easy to think that we already know it (have matched sensations about it).
Related Pages of Free Information
- CBT, CT, & REBT: Quotations
- How the Mind Works: New FIT Table
- REBT & CBT Fast-Facts Collection
- REBT’s Main Website: AEI (www.albertellisinstitute.org) Includes Training Opportunities
- Table of Contents: FIT
- Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.
- Read for the best understanding in the world of feelings and intentions.
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.
- Read for the best understanding in the world of feelings and intentions.
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.
- Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.
- Read for the best understanding in the world of feelings and intentions.