The Marriage of Facts and Truth
Do you believe the sun won’t rise tomorrow or that the north pole will be 110 degrees on Christmas Eve? Why not? Because of what we call facts that are
Continue readingWe Find Truth with Straight Thinking
We control our emotions by controlling our thinking, so let’s make sure the foundation for our thinking is truly straight and will help us control our emotions in the way
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Evaluating Our Mental Hemispheres
As some of you know, I come from the southern hemisphere. Can you make a quick journey through your imagination and think how upside-down it all can seem to be
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Creating A New Mind — Where Do We Start?
Key to our success in controlling emotions is… Well, let me ask you a question. Do you remember what lies at the core of all conscious human functioning (behavior) and
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Manage Emotions to Strengthen the Grip on Yourself
Keep three words in mind when you want to use more tools to teach yourself and others the management of emotions. They are: distract, disconnect, reframe. All three are ways to
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Using Our Rational Brain to Get a Grip on Ourselves
Using words we all can readily understand, the emotional brain needs to be calmed down at times, especially when we are in the grip of an emotional outburst. So far,
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Healthy Emotions! What Is Their Value?
Emotional Control (continued) Have you ever noticed that happy people tend to control their emotions better than angry people? I wonder why? Happiness produces a state of relaxation and in
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How to Teach Emotional Control
Let’s talk about distraction, and how it almost magically works to achieve emotional control. But first, we have to note: distraction can be the immediate cause of an emotional outburst
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Changing the Source of All Our Mental Darkness
All hate, destructive anger, and black-heartedness come from a well-known source. We must change the source of hate, bitterness, and all our mental darkness. So what is that source? We
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Crooked Thinking Is In Air That Is Thick with Hate
You may remember the song “What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love.” It’s never been in greater need. Crooked thinking leads to crooked speaking, and hate in the
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Finding Truth Without an Abundance of Evidence
Straight Thinking About Facts — Part 2 There’s even more to straight thinking about facts than the issues to which I referred in my last article. We must consider how
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Thinking About Facts Must Be “Straight” Thinking
Straight thinking is also all about the facts. What facts? All that can be known. And how do we define a fact? Facts are truths that can be verified in
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