We need to learn how to operate from a position of strength. My question is: Do you behave typically from positions of weakness, or from positions of strength?
personal values
Is it better to be weak instead of forceful?
Submitted by Elpidio on April 12, 2006 - 10:07am. personal values | Psychology | self independence
Dealing with subordinates
Submitted by Elpidio on April 11, 2006 - 11:47am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceAn area in which you can frequently be manipulated is when dealing with employees or subordinates. If you have the power of observation, you’ll have perceived through the simple description of the tasks they carry out, that frequently they only exist to subjugate you by means of a number of processes without end.
Fighting bureaucracy
Submitted by Elpidio on April 11, 2006 - 10:10am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceBureaucracy is an area where people usually surrender against manipulation.
Self Independence - Dealing with authorities or professionals
Submitted by Elpidio on April 10, 2006 - 2:49pm. personal values | Psychology | self independenceAn area in which you can be a victim of manipulation is when facing authorities and professionals. Those people who have ostentatious titles or have authority positions, often think that because of that they can outrage us.
Self Independence - The workplace
Submitted by Elpidio on April 10, 2006 - 2:17pm. personal values | Psychology | self independenceThe workplace is another typical area where we can feel enslaved, manipulated or controlled. Bosses and employers usually believe that people under their control lose all their rights automatically to transform into objects. If this is your case, it is possible that you feel manipulated at work or even intimidated by supervisors or due to ordinances and internal regulations.
Self Independence - Dealing with the family
Submitted by Elpidio on April 10, 2006 - 10:59am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceOnce we have accommodated our perspectives in such a way that fit with our real attitudes, we’ll have to proceed with those persons who try to subject us and are willing to impede us to complete our objectives.
Self Independence - The social attitudes
Submitted by Elpidio on April 7, 2006 - 11:57am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceThe social attitudes are extremely important and it is another area where we allow us to be manipulated. If you are considered little self-secure, if you consider yourself a clumsy person, unable to express well, shy, introverted, etc. you’ll have before you a quite bad experience in the social field and to this feeling a socially faulty behavior will follow.
Self Independence - The emotional attitudes
Submitted by Elpidio on April 7, 2006 - 11:43am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceAnalyzing the areas where we can have ended up underestimating ourselves and developing negative attitudes, we will treat the area of the emotional attitudes.
Self Independence - The intellectual capacity
Submitted by Elpidio on April 7, 2006 - 11:05am. personal values | Psychology | self independenceIn this analysis on the areas in that it is possible that we have ended up underestimating our potential, we will talk now about our intellectual capacity.
How to avoid anxiety (2)
Submitted by Elpidio on April 5, 2006 - 7:02am. personal values | Psychology | self improvementHow can we overcome the habits of using patterns of distorted thoughts?
How to avoid anxiety (1)
Submitted by Elpidio on March 31, 2006 - 1:55pm. personal values | Psychology | self improvementThe anxiety, depression and other neurotic behaviors evolve through a process described by professor Albert Ellis (1913 -) in four stages or phases that lead to them.
Patterns of distorted thinking (12). Are we victims of our emotions?
Submitted by Elpidio on March 31, 2006 - 1:13pm. personal values | Psychology | self improvementThe concept number twelve is the believing that we don’t have control over our emotions and that we are victims of these without being able to control the way we feel. This idea is completely incorrect.
Patterns of distorted thinking (11). Does a unique solution exist for each problem?
Submitted by Elpidio on March 30, 2006 - 1:57pm. personal values | Psychology | self improvementThe eleventh pattern in the series of distorted thoughts is the believing that only a correct solution exists for each problem, and that if we don't find it, the consequences can be terrible.
Patterns of distorted thinking (10). Should we influence on others’ life?
Submitted by Elpidio on March 30, 2006 - 12:35pm. personal values | Psychology | self improvementThe tenth pattern of distorted thoughts is to believe that we should change or influence other people’s lives, since what they do or think should be important for us.
Patterns of distorted thinking (9). When past experiences determine our present behavior
Submitted by Elpidio on March 30, 2006 - 9:36am. personal values | Psychology | self improvementThe ninth pattern of distorted thought consists on believing that because a traumatic experience happened in the past, it should influence or determine our present behavior. This is something completely false.
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