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5 Terrible Thinking Traps (And How to Avoid Them)

1. It’s All or Nothing In for a penny, in for a pound, right? Well, no. Extreme thinking and behaviour does no-one any favours. When we lean to the extremes, we never see what we are missing out on inbetween. I used to suffer from…

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What Is An Emotion?

People often get confused about what emotions are. They may take feelings too seriously, believing that they are instructions or inescapable facts. They may try to control their emotions by clinging to them or trying to push them away. But all these things just make…

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Why Willpower Can Not Cure Addiction

Whether you’re an alcoholic, a drug addict, a binge eater, or a compulsive porn viewer, you may have found yourself trying to use willpower to control your habit. You may have found that your self-control lasted for a small amount of time, only to weaken…

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