Re: [Re: Rational Recovery/Jack Trimpey]

January 14, 2001

For what its worth you don't repress it rather you recognize it hence Addictive

Voice Recognition Technique. But then you aren't aware of the technique.

Carol

>

> In a message dated 1/9/01 4:21:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> sparkydawg69@... writes:

>

> << Seriously, though, giving character and will, sentient motivation, to a

> part

> of our brains that we barely understand, to explain away our cognitive

> concious behavior is desperate grasping at anything, anything, to avoid

> responsibilty for your own behavior. The Son of Sam would have been prou >>

>

> It is also anti-intellectual, one of our favourite characterisitics of AA.

> Avoiding responsibility for your behavior --- I'm not sure that is the

> salient characteristic of any system that does what you so eloquently

> describe above. While people are feverishly trying to understand the reward

> systems in neural networks of the brain to give us real data to work with in

> combatting compulsive behavior, we have short-sheeters ( I don't even know

> what I mean by that) encouraging people not to think.

>

> If anything, people fighting to combat powerful urges, whatever the

> combination of variables of causality, have feelings of responsibility about

> their behaviour to the extremes of guilt, blame and shame. Some of the

> writings on obsessive thought (Wegner comes to mind) are interesting. The

> more you try to suppress the thought of something you DONT want to do, the

> stronger it becomes. Piper

>

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