Re: [ET2] Easy?

Hi Gabriella

The cognitive folks say that cognition (beliefs) determine affects. And as Brian already mentioned, they got it largely the wrong way around. (He could also have cited LeDoux, BTW).
And most "you create your own reality people" believe in changing the *content* of beliefs, instead of the *charge* of the beliefs, or the energetic component, using an IMO hyped up and oversimplified version of cognitive psychology.

Saying that "we create our emotions" and thus our reality may be partly true, but then too the inverse ("our affects create us").
So how about: to some extent we create parts of our reality, but on the other (larger?) hand, *reality creates us*?

Long live the approaches that target energy and emotion, and this the *charge* of beliefs, instead of the content of beliefs!

Maarten

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Gabrielle Kortsch
  To: emotrance2_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:44 PM
  Subject: RE: [ET2] Easy?

  Maarten:

  If I understand the "you create your own reality" folks correctly, they
  place emphasis <precisely> on the fact that beliefs MUST have affect
  (emotional charge) associated with them in order to have any kind of
  impact (e.g., Abraham Hicks). Even my (just about completed :-) )
  academically anaesthetized doctoral dissertation (life course theory,
  grounded theory, integrated qualitative - data analytic strategies) that
  deals with intervention impact on qualitative change (in particular at
  major life transitions and turning points) and positive youth
  development for at risk youth and recidivist juvenile delinquents is
  based on an intervention that attempts to bring about the sought-after
  change in these kids (as compared to controls), recognizes that these
  young people are indeed creating their own reality by the force of the
  affect in their belief in their future selves, whatever these may be. In
  order to change, therefore, in a positive direction, a belief in a
  different future (e.g., become a doctor vs. become a drug dealer, or
  believe in the innate goodness of man vs. the opposite) is only
  effective if the affect involved suffuses the person with strong
  feeling.

  Gabrielle

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