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The Yellow Brick Road to Better Living: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for the Young and Young at Heart
Happiness is not dependent on having perfect life experiences, or the good will of witches or wizards. It’s a process and a journey. The Yellow Brick Road to Better Living is a retelling of the Wizard of OZ written to help you deal with your challenges using cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and other evidence based techniques tested by behavioural scientists shown to offer relief from a wide range of emotional and behaviour problems.With this workbook, you’ll travel through the land of Oz and get an understanding of how what you think is connected to how you feel physically and emotionally, and consequently what you do.Through self-monitoring, psycho-education and experimentation, you’ll develop greater self-awareness and thinking habits to take with you wherever it is that your yellow brick road may lead.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 16, 2015
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November 12, 2021
Thought Prisons
We get caught up in thought prisions, or thinking errors, every day. But once you understand them, it’s easier to notice and to snap out of them.
You don’t have a crystal ball, and yet you imagine that you can predict what will happen in the future, perhaps based on past experiences. But your past experiences don’t dictate the future: you always have the opportunity for free choice and to experience something different.
You feel afraid, and you want to push that emotion away, and so you hide. But once you come out of hiding, your fear is still right there waiting for you because you never conquered it! That which one resists, persists!
Just because you think a thought, it doesn’t make it true. Thoughts are theories, not facts! “Because I think I’m a bird, doesn’t make me a bird, even if I have flown over the rainbow
Mindfulness is an ancient eastern practice that helps us become more aware of what is present. Practicing mindfulness simply means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment and without judgment. Practicing mindfulness is letting go of attempts to analyse and control, choosing to focus attention on the here and now. Often we suffer because our minds are caught up in the past or worrying about the future. In this way we can miss out on what is here and now for much of our lives. It is easy to get caught up in thought prisons, when we are not mindful. The only goal of mindfulness is to bring attention to the moment, noticing the sensations that it brings
Building independence increases confidence.
Tin man: having spent so much time paralysed by your emotions, you’ve found ways to cut yourself off. You’ve come to me for a heart, thinking you are heartless. But feelings, even the ugly ones, are friendly. They only cause trouble when we try to control them. Get more pleasure, avoid the pain. Life has pain, but that’s just a part of it. If you are running from pain, you are running from life. If you chase happiness you’ll never catch up. All things in their turn. Lion: you think of yourself as a house cat, when all the while you are your own master, king of the forest. Feelings seem powerful but, in truth, they are only important because they provide a mirror to reveal the way you’re thinking. You can feel something truly, deeply, but you still always have a choice, a decision to make, as to how you will act. What you do is within your power. You can feel fear and still do what you need to do in order to move closer to the things that are important to you.”
Excerpt From: "The Yellow Brick Road to Better Living: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for the Young and Young at Heart" by Dr. Nicole Gehl. Scribd.
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We get caught up in thought prisions, or thinking errors, every day. But once you understand them, it’s easier to notice and to snap out of them.
You don’t have a crystal ball, and yet you imagine that you can predict what will happen in the future, perhaps based on past experiences. But your past experiences don’t dictate the future: you always have the opportunity for free choice and to experience something different.
You feel afraid, and you want to push that emotion away, and so you hide. But once you come out of hiding, your fear is still right there waiting for you because you never conquered it! That which one resists, persists!
Just because you think a thought, it doesn’t make it true. Thoughts are theories, not facts! “Because I think I’m a bird, doesn’t make me a bird, even if I have flown over the rainbow
Mindfulness is an ancient eastern practice that helps us become more aware of what is present. Practicing mindfulness simply means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment and without judgment. Practicing mindfulness is letting go of attempts to analyse and control, choosing to focus attention on the here and now. Often we suffer because our minds are caught up in the past or worrying about the future. In this way we can miss out on what is here and now for much of our lives. It is easy to get caught up in thought prisons, when we are not mindful. The only goal of mindfulness is to bring attention to the moment, noticing the sensations that it brings
Building independence increases confidence.
Tin man: having spent so much time paralysed by your emotions, you’ve found ways to cut yourself off. You’ve come to me for a heart, thinking you are heartless. But feelings, even the ugly ones, are friendly. They only cause trouble when we try to control them. Get more pleasure, avoid the pain. Life has pain, but that’s just a part of it. If you are running from pain, you are running from life. If you chase happiness you’ll never catch up. All things in their turn. Lion: you think of yourself as a house cat, when all the while you are your own master, king of the forest. Feelings seem powerful but, in truth, they are only important because they provide a mirror to reveal the way you’re thinking. You can feel something truly, deeply, but you still always have a choice, a decision to make, as to how you will act. What you do is within your power. You can feel fear and still do what you need to do in order to move closer to the things that are important to you.”
Excerpt From: "The Yellow Brick Road to Better Living: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for the Young and Young at Heart" by Dr. Nicole Gehl. Scribd.
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