Re: Re: Introductions
Brad Appleton <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:39:34PM -0500, Chris Morris wrote: > Right - for me -- I can't control my feelings, if I get angry reading > something and writing a response, but I can control my reaction, choosing to > not send the reply, and, with practice, I can influence my feelings so that > in fact I no longer feel the anger in the moment after several iterations. How do you do this? (influence your feelings to create a new (re)conditioned response?) > Instead of shooting the messenger (trying to control my feelings so that I > don't even experience them), I've been taught to listen to the messenger and > work at getting what's underneath. How do you get to that place you are now (being able to listen to the messenger) from the place of wanting to shoot them? > Yeah, true enough. It all goes back to what we use as the foundation for > judging right and wrong. Anyone ever read Mark Twain's short story "The Mysterious Stranger" where he talks about (among other things) how man is afflicted with "the moral sense" and that man alone of all earth's creatures seems to possess it? -- Brad Appleton <[email protected]> www.bradapp.net Software CM Patterns (www.scmpatterns.com) Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration "And miles to go before I sleep." -- Robert Frost ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/X1EolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/