The door to our mental jail cell is unlocked. All we have to do is walk out the door.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:08 am
Classic article! You Can’t Win. Don’t Even Try!
Bottom Line up Front:
Bottom Line up Front:
Our priority has to be those things that are within our control. Where and how we live; what we spend our time, money and energy doing; who we spend our time with; how we provide the necessities for our family; the type of community that we live in: all of these things are, to some extent, things that we can have a direct influence on, and by exerting that influence (however slight), we train ourselves that our situation is not hopeless.
The field of positive psychology is well worth exploring. In doing so, we can gain important insights into our own cognitive processes and become more conscious of the explanatory styles that we use to make sense of the world. In so doing, we can also gain more control over those processes and un-learn a lifetime of learned helplessness that has caused many to abandon all hope.