I believe I have found a simple method for defeating negative emotions, thoughts, self harmful thinking and 'automatic' thinking processes. The method involves the concept of feedback, wherein thought energy is directed toward a target which in turn delivers some of that directed energy back to the source, resulting in the destruction of the bad thoughts.. Basic assumption is that different areas of our neural system have different functions or properties. I think that the process is similar to Vicktor Frankl's idea of paradoxical intention, where one intentionally tries to create that which bothers him so to speak. Search logotherapy, man's search for meaning, etc. Use duckduckgo for searchin. They don't track.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.What if we're not supposed to 'defeat' negative emotions? What if they're simply messages letting us know what's going on? It seems that if we try to "defeat" our brains, they will kick our butts from the inside... and that's a battle we will never win. We've got hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and trillions of synapses, and chemicals galore all wondering around up there, and something tells me we're just picking a fight that ultimately make our lives even more miserable.
Benthoven
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Oct 29, 2018
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Thanks for your input. If we define a negative emotion or thought as one that is unwanted or harmful to us or to others, and that such emotional thoughts can be controlled, why isn't that a good thing if we like living and who we are? Forget not that thoughts often lead to actions or behavior.
I remember logotherapy in relation to his book. I'm not sure what's going on here, though. Is it just the idea of confronting your fears to get rid of them?
brentan
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Oct 29, 2018
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No, not confronting fears. More to do with conscious, deliberate focos of attention by the frontal lobes. Most of us are able to deliberately focus attention on one thing to the exclusion of other things, right? Reminds me of a time in Starbucks when I observed a white haired gentleman intensely reading a paperback book. To him I said, "You must be a math professor?" "How'd you know.", he answered. Turned out one of his students was Sergey Brinn, one of the founders of Google. Smartest student he ever had, he later informed me.
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