Dr. Albert Ellis: 104 Rational Maxims to Control My anxiousThinking. Copied from How To Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You (pages 190-205)
REBT insights that will significantly help me
1.
Adversities frequently exist in my life and in
the world, and I frequently have little control over them. Usually , however, when I become seriously
disturbed about them, I choose to upset myself by my attitudes about them.
2.
The past Adversities
of my life may well have strongly contributed to my disturbances. But so did I!
When I am now, years later, very upset about them, I am still making my
powerful dysfunctional conclusions about the past. Still!
3.
I can virtually always change my disturbing Irrational
Beliefs about the past and the present--not merely by gaining insight into them
but by considerable work and practice to think, feel, and act against
them. Yes, considerable work and practice!
4.
Recognizing
what people and events did to help disturb me is healthy if I also recognize
what I believed about their
contributions to my disturbance. That is what I'd better largely see and
work to change.
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