Thursday, May 10, 2007

Counselling: If The Paint is Peeling

A client said to me the other day, " I figured it was like in my work, when I paint. If I saw that the paint I was using was always peeling, I would go out and get new paint."

He was saying that he had been running into situations, and always reacting in the same way, as though repeating the patterns of his past and using the same reactions as the past. When he realized this, he could begin to look at new ways of interpreting events as they occur, and begin to react in different ways.

Alcoholics Anonymous makes the same point, a little differently: " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

All of us can think about our reactions and think about the meaning of the events and relationships that trigger them

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