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But is anger a habit?
Looking at the visitor statistics for this blog, I noticed that this year’s most visited blog article so far is ‘How we do the Anger Habit.’ In the 8 months since it was published it has been viewed just under 1800 times.
This is great and yet what I find particularly interesting is that nobody has commented on, questioned or challenged the article’s central idea – that anger is a ‘habit’ i.e. it is something that we do rather than something which happens to us.
‘It’s not may fault – that’s how I am’!
I first began introducing the idea that our emotions are really ‘habits’ in the weekly stress management courses which I began running in the mid 80’s. These were held in Dorset, in the south of the UK, and proved very popular – so much that, at one stage, I could be running four, five or even six courses per week throughout the area. Continue reading
NLP is great, wonderful, amazing etc etc
It goes like this; you’ve been interested in NLP for a while and have found that it has made a difference in your life. You’ve used it to solve some problems and make a few valuable breakthroughs in how you think, feel and communicate. And you want to let other people know about it.
So you begin enthusiastically telling them about this wonderfully effective and powerful body of knowledge and how easily you can use to change your lie and so on and on and on!
Already you’re getting sceptical looks; you’re beginning to sound like a born-again convert to some cult or religion. Continue reading
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