What is the Animosity Cycle and How can I overcome it?

Jan 142012
 

Unhelpful thinking is any thinking that does not contribute to your current situation in a positive context.What is the Animosity Cycle?

An Animosity Cycle is a reciprocating cycle of ill will and anti-social behaviour based on mutual and escalating aggression between two or more people.

An Animosity Cycle begins with a perceived wrong, either real or unreal, experienced by someone which results in anger and subsequent aggression being expressed towards someone else. This generates feelings of discontent or anger in the victim who reciprocates with a similar level of aggression. Continue reading »

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Are You Limited By Unhelpful Thinking?

Oct 252011
 

Unhelpful Thinking

Unhelpful thinking is any thinking that does not contribute to your current situation in a positive context.What is Unhelpful Thinking?

Modern life is full of demanding people, places and situations. Unhelpful thinking are the thoughts, emotions or feelings that created in response to those demands, and which do not contribute positively to you or your current situation. Unhelpful thinking may be emotions such as depression, anger, sadness or anxiety, or may be over analyse a situation that should be relatively straight forward.

Unhelpful Thinking can even occur by focusing too much attention on a particular subject or topic which in turn prevents you focusing on something else more important. In all these cases unhelpful thinking is usually preceded by any number of unhelpful self statements about you, a situation, other people, even objects or things. Unhelpful thinking is closely associated with Low Self Esteem or Poor Self Image. Continue reading »

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