Re: [ET2] Easy?

Thank you, Maarten!
I wasn't familiar with Joseph LeDoux..........
I've just ordered his "The Emotional Brain" which was published in 1997
one year after Damasio's book came out.

I look forward to dropping it in the lap of some cognitive folk I
know.......

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:11:51 +0100
"maalberse" <maalberse_at_qFuJ0CqtOJl7rNotq6AwnGcTDAwzrp93Gohl7Ex4BzGgB5_hUWJJ_x1_saJHKSNYYTNhxwZ1gOaEhlLe.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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