Exercise, Week Starting Monday, 6/22/09

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Exercise from Experiments, page 113:

Choose and write down an area of your life in which you feel burdened. List the ways you have to work to feel this way -- the attitudes you have to work on holding, the behaviors you have to do to keep this feeling. Then select one item from your list and write a more constructive replacement attitude or behavior. Work each day for at least a week on expressing that replacement in this area of your life.

Example:
Burdened by:

· frequent arguments with Richard

Attitudes and behaviors

I work at:

· make an effort to recall past instances where I thought he was selfish;

· make an effort to feel resentful;

· make an effort to speak unkindly of him to others

Replacement:

· begin to speak in a more positive way of him to others.