Sublime

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

All discrimination comes from the ego’s sense of importance, where it believes its people are more important or better or more creative or more socially acceptable than some other people.

This is precisely what the weak do everywhere. Through bitter experience they have learned how to exercise extreme care, how to behave so as to reduce the threat of immediate danger from their environment. Fear thus becomes a form of life assurance, making possible the continuation of physical existence with a minimum of active violence.

No One Is an Island

Life is stressful and depressing for a person who learns through childhood to be helpless.

Le concept de résilience, proposé par Martin Seligman, s’appuie sur une idée issue de la philosophie grecque et retenue par les TCC : on peut apprendre aux gens combien leurs réponses émotionnelles sont conditionnées par leurs croyances et leurs interprétations. Il est alors possible de leur enseigner comment débattre de leurs croyances