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  • Commitment, Dedication, and Persistence that Wanes

    Commitment, Dedication, and Persistence that Wanes

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    Ben Turner
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    You know, if I must admit, there are certain individuals with whom I am jealous. The ones I am referring to now are the ones that have this uncanny ability to have self-discipline with the mundane, with the day-in and day-out, with less than glamorous tasks.  And it’s a bit misleading to think that all…

  • Violational Experience & State-Control

    Violational Experience & State-Control

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    Ben Turner
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    This is a synthesis of two previous entries. One article was titled “Experience that Violates Expectation” and made the claim that true change occurs when one has a meaningfully different experience than what was expected—that resists being absorbed back into the current belief system, thereby forcing an inner reorganization. The second article was titled “State-Control”…

  • Experience That Violates Expectation

    Experience That Violates Expectation

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    Ben Turner
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    I was considering a client I am working with, and while considering something about them I wrote perhaps the most important line in my work as a therapist yet.  The absolute best way to break conscious/unconscious sets, ingrained beliefs, life rules, organizing/governing principles—is to contradict them and to experience something different than what’s expected.  This…