Sublime

‘To reduce your worry, you must assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.’

However, as the MEM becomes more aware of his unconscious responses, he can use his left-brain awareness and “reason with” his very protective right brain. Then he can correct his first reaction and respond more reasonably.

So in Adlerian psychology, we do not think about past “causes” but rather about present “goals.” YOUTH: Present goals? PHILOSOPHER: Your friend is insecure, so he can’t go out. Think about it the other way around. He doesn’t want to go out, so he’s creating a state of anxiety. YOUTH: Huh? PHILOSOPHER: Think about it this way. Your friend had the go

This is why the protection of self-esteem requires a clear understanding of the limits of volitional responsibility. Where there is no power, there can be no responsibility, and where there is no responsibility, there can be no reasonable self-reproach. Regret, yes; guilt, no.

We feel we need to minimize uncertainty at all costs. The other name for minimizing uncertainty is control.

Traditional Zen training can, without a doubt, elicit and help resolve many personality conflicts that analytically-minded therapists would define and work with under very different conditions.

Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis insofar as it considers man a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts, or in merely reconciling the conflicting claims of id, ego and superego, or in the mere adaptation and adjustment to society and environment