The Happines Blog

The Hapiness Blog has been updated, with some interesting bits and bobs, on Friday 27th November, 2009.

Here are a couple of examples:

Friday 27th November 2009 – 8.00am

I had a little lie in (or sleep in) this morning, and got up at 6.30am. I had a light breakfast, followed by twenty minutes of (Zen) meditation, and thirty minutes of physical exercise: (Zham Zhong and Chi Kung). This is an important expression of my commitment to CENT (Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy) – because CENT is a holistic therapy, which sees the individual as a historical body and a cumulative mind. If I do not take care of my body, my mind will become ragged. If I do not take care of my body-mind every day, it will decline, degenerate and function sub-optimally.

Meditation is not just a “cognitive distraction” – or a diversion from your normal daily concerns. Done regularly, it is actually a cumulative experience of peace, calm and bliss. It mounts up, and changes the sense of the “ground upon which you stand”.

And regular physical exercise is essential for physical and mental wellbeing.

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Saturday 28th November 2009 – 5.00pm

This is officially still my (secular) Sabbath, but I have a sense of the need to stay in touch with the readers of this blog. I don’t want to wait until late Sunday, or early Monday to get this written and posted.

Yesterday, at some point, I spotted that my health goals were not specific enough, and so I rewrote one in particular. Did you know that your can write goals for your physical and emotional wellbeing, just as readily and usefully as you can write goals for your material success? Once you have written some specific health goals, you will find that you start to think about how to achieve them. What can I do to shift this condition, and by what date do I want to achieve that result? What are the implications for my diet, exercise, and anti-stress activities? Are there any books, websites, or professionals who can help me to achieve these goals? Try this and see what happens. Your health is so important. Without your health, none of your material goals is worthwhile. You cannot enjoy money from an intensive care bed!

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Take a look and see what you think, here: The Happiness Blog.
Best wishes,
Jim

Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

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The Business Success Blog at ABC Coaching

Hi, I have jsut updated my Business Success Blog, here:

Principle 5: Take Control of Your Business

Please take a look and see what you think.

Best wishes,
Jim

Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

Jim's email address

Why is this called the Happiness Blog?

Hi,
The Happiness Blog has been updated today, Saturday 21st November, here:
The Happiness Blog Update

It is quite brief this week due to other pressures of work, but there is a link to the text of a teleseminar that I presented to a group of students in Texas last night.

Stay well, and remember to smile!
Best wishes,
Jim

Dr Jim Byrne
Doctor of Counselling
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

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Build Success by Getting Things Done

Hi, I have now posted the updated new programme for personal success. It teaches how to cope with emotional resistance to life's difficulties and frustrations. How to get things done to achieve our goals. And how to be successful in a difficult world. Take a look and see what you think:

Build Success by Getting Things Done

Best wishes,
Jim

Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

Jim's Email address

The Law of Attraction and The Law of Thrownness

Some weeks ago I saw this statement on Twitter:

"You create your own world!"

I remember being struck by the power and certainty of this claim. And the sense that this is a statement that has to be investigated. It is emotionally appealing, but what are it's merits? As it stands it is not 'an argument' in the critical thinking sense of a conclusion supported by evidential premises. It is merely an assertion! Indeed, on Twitter, there is not enough space for an argument, in just 140 characters.

Anyway I have been very busy, and have not had much time to even think about that statement, about how we might 'create our own world'. I did write that assertion in my notebook, with a reminder to do some work on it. But other priorities kept intervening.

Today, I am tempted to try to write some reflective thoughts on this assertion. The reason this came up today is that I found a new comment on Twittter, by Brandon Gilbert, to the effect that 'The Law of Attraction is a Lie'. I checked out his video clip, and found he was not saying it is a lie, but that it is not enough to 'intend' to become wealthy and/or successful. Rather, we must take new kinds of actions to make those intentions and goals into realities.

Combining the original assertion and Brandon Gilbert's claim, we get the claim that: 'We creat our own world by our thoughts and actions'. This is a new assertion; again not an argument, in that it does not contain any evidential premises for the bald conclusion.

My main argument against this assertion is this (where P = premise, and C = conclusion):

This blog is continued here: The Law of Attraction and the Law of Thrownness.

http://abc-counselling.com/id143.html

Hi,
Today I have been updating my Happiness Blog here: The Friday Happiness Blog.

I have been trying to distinguish and define 'frame theory' which is central to understanding the nature of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT).

Please take a look and see what you think, here: The Friday Happiness Blog.

Best wishes,
Jim

Dr Jim Byrne

Email address: jim.byrne@abc-counselling.com.

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Updating the Institute for CENT Studies

Hi, I have today updated the Institute for Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy's web page, here: Institute for CENT Studies.

I have added some new content, and appended a new paper, on the use of the Windows Model in resolving emotional and behavioural problems in CENT.

Take a look and see what you think, here: The Institute for CENT Studies.

Best wishes,

Jim

Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services.

Email: Dr Jim Byrne