Tag Archive for: attributions
Video: Mastery and Wellbeing Through Mindfulness Practice (part nine of series)
How to live a full and rewarding life despite chronic pain, fatigue, malaise, and disability. The source of most of our suffering is the attributions we assign to symptoms rather than the symptoms themselves. We create unnecessary suffering…
Video: Focus On Possibilities, Not On Limitations
This interview with psychophysiologist Dr. Erik Peper reveals self-healing secrets used by yogis for thousands of years. Mind-training methods used by yogis like Jack Schwarz were explored. The underlying message throughout the discussion was…
Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.
This question & answer column is for people living with chronic health challenges and their family caregivers, who want to learn to increase the odds of improving their health by learning to live with mastery & wellbeing.
I invite…
Video: The Danger of Cognitive Fusion and the Solution
We all tend to get upset over neutral events that happen to us all day because we assign a false attribution to the event. We can think it through and realize that we have mistakenly attributed something negative to the otherwise neutral event.…
Video: Focus On Possibilities, Not On Limitations
This interview with psychophysiologist Dr. Erik Peper reveals self-healing secrets used by yogis for thousands of years. Mind-training methods used by yogis like Jack Schwarz were explored. The underlying message throughout the discussion was…
Cognitive Fusion with Cognitive Attributions is Unhealthy
Fusion, Attributions, and Health
In understanding the deleterious effects of cognitive fusion, it is important to explore how the attributions we assign to all stimuli directly influence our physiology and health. We assign attributions…
Practice Living by Your Personal Life Values—Part 1
As I pointed out in earlier posts, emotional distress and its accompanying physiological stress are less the result of events than of the attributions you assign to those events—your thoughts and beliefs about them—and your cognitive…