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WHEN YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND IS UNHELPFUL
Conscious minds come in all sorts of conditions.
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THINKING AND FEARING
While the pandemic of the cornavirus from China has been problematic, an equally problematic pandemic that’s spread around the world is the fear pandemic.
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THINKING OUT-LOUD DO ALL LIVES MATTER?
For me and I would guess for most people, there’s no question, yes, black lives matter.
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THINKING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Thinking itself is challenging enough.
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FEELING GUILTY OVER SOMEONE ELSE’S HISTORY
With the destruction of statues of historical figures in the US, figures who played a key role in the nation’s history, there’s been a lot of uncritical and false thinking about…
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HOW DID THAT WORK OUT?
In NLP we constantly and repeatedly ask what we call the ecology question.
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FRAGILE THINKERS
Some people are mentally and emotionally fragile when it comes to their ability to think— to entertain an idea, to try it on in their minds and then to question and explore it.
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PROTESTING FOR REFORMS On Both Sides
I’m waiting for another set of protests.
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WE WERE UNITED, THEN WE WEREN’T
For the days immediately following the gruesome death of George Floyd, the nation was united.
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THINKING ALOUD ABOUT “SYSTEMIC RACISM”
Alfred Korzybski warned that there are pseudo-words— terms that do not refer to anything real or actual.
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THINKING ALOUD ABOUT “JUSTICE” What does “Justice” Really Mean?
What follows here is some critical thinking about the ideas of protesting, protesters, and the call for justice.
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THOSE WITH WHOM YOU CAN’T HAVE A CONVERSATION
To have a real and authentic conversation, you have to have two persons who are willing to be open-minded and think critically.
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COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS AMONG PROTESTORS
For anyone who wants to protest something, if you want to truly win minds and hearts and bring change to a system, a community, or an organization— you’re going to have to use your…
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PROTEST OR RIOT?
Protesting and rioting are not the same.
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DOING PERSONALITY A Review of “The Structure of Personality”
Some years ago Te Ruru of New Zealand wrote a book review of The Structure of Personality: Personality Ordering and Disordering with NLP and Neuro-Semantics, which was published by…
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THINKING DIFFERENTLY ABOUT VIRUSES
Two years ago Dr. Zach Bush, M.D.
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REAL THINKING CONVERSATIONS Looking for Good Points
If no one person has all of the truth, and if all of us have bits of the truth, then one of the reasons we need each other is so we can be exposed to the bits of truth which we…
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OH FOR MORE COMMON SENSE!
Since we all have a vested interest in actually thinking for a living, it makes sense to develop what we call “common sense.”
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WAKING UP FROM THE TRANCE
In Brain Camp (the Neuro-Semantic Training that teaches Executive Thinking), the first and main point I seek to drive home is the shocking realization that — most of the time we…
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WHEN HOME IS YOUR PERSONAL FIGHT PEN
When you are stuck at home (Neurons #16) and your stressing yourself out about things (Neurons #17), there is an increased likelihood that you can get into arguments and fights…
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WHEN YOU’RE STRESSED OUT AT HOME
In addition to mastering the art of being “stuck at home,” (Neurons #16), you could be stuck at home — stressed out about health, finances, kids, career, etc.
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WHEN YOU’RE STUCK AT HOME Better or Bitter?
All sorts of things could be happening these days when the “world has shut down,” and you are stuck at home— good things and not-so good things.
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USING META-STATES FOR COPING WITH EMOTIONS
Robert Dilts recently wrote an excellent article, Holding Difficult Feelings, and offered it to the NLP Leadership Summit for how to deal with the difficult emotions that many…
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YOUR “RATIONAL” MIND
When it comes to the word “rational,” there are two very, very different meanings for that term.
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