modern psychology & the dharma 2: irrational thoughts and beliefs
Dharmapunx NYC
josh korda
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🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:11.0 | Albert Ellis who was born in 13. |
| 0:11.0 | Albert Ellis who was born in 1913 in Pennsylvania but spent most of his life in New York |
| 0:20.0 | and he was essentially famous for his view that there had not been enough attention to the way that our interpretations of life, our beliefs about our experience cause suffering. |
| 0:36.0 | Ellis used the word belief and for Ellis beliefs they are underlying ideas or views that we hold in a conscious way but we |
| 0:47.7 | rarely state aloud. |
| 0:49.7 | They are views about other people, about ourselves, views about |
| 0:55.0 | experience, and they are the underlying sort of perceptions that |
| 1:00.0 | create the thoughts that annotate our experience. |
| 1:04.0 | We rarely speak aloud our deeply held views or beliefs. |
| 1:11.0 | Ellis had what he called the ABC model of the way suffering works. |
| 1:17.4 | The ABC model is A is the activating event that happens in life. It's an unpleasant event. We use, for example, you see a friend, you wave to your friend and your friend doesn't wave back. So that's the activating event. And then B is the way you interpret that event it's your |
| 1:34.0 | belief about it so it's your perception of the event so in this case let's use |
| 1:39.4 | two possible beliefs one belief is damn look at that I just of all |
| 1:43.0 | believe, |
| 1:45.0 | I just waved at that person and they didn't wave back. |
| 1:48.0 | What's going on? |
| 1:50.0 | I call that person back whenever they call me. |
| 1:52.0 | I listen when that person's got issues and I just |
| 1:55.1 | wave and they don't wave back in me, what's their problem? And then the other possible belief |
| 2:01.2 | will use, there's many possible beliefs, but the other possible belief would be, oh I guess he didn't see me. Now the C is the consequences that |
| 2:12.4 | arise from B, the belief, the way you interpret the events of life. |
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