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    The Stuff Of Thought

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    The Stuff of Thought Reflection In this class, we have spent time analyzing and trying to understand the concepts in Steven Pinker’s book The Stuff of Thought. The book breaks down the way we think and relate it to everyday life situations. The book covers many interesting topics than can affect the way we think about our daily lives. This book challenges us to think critically about our language and how it affects the way that we think. The book gives good examples to try and relate what is being said to try and help the reader understand the concept better and give examples people can relate to. This books gives advice on how to better understand the way we think and improve the way we communicate with one another. This paper will be breaking down concepts that are brought up in The Stuff of Thought and applying it to personal experience and encounters that I have had with these…

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    Intrusive Thoughts

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    of Intrusive Thoughts associated with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder There are a number of people all around that world that report having intrusive thoughts. (Levine & Warman, 2016) Intrusive thoughts are obsessive thoughts or images that cause an individual distress. (Wilson, 2012) These people are average in the sense that they do not have a disorder that can be characterized by the DSM-5. The most common intrusive thoughts or images are associated with aggression and violence, abnormal sexual…

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    Thoughts are powerful. Just think, all thoughts create things. If thoughts are so powerful they create things, imagine what we can do if we use our thoughts in the right way. For example, what if Benjamin Franklin hadn’t acted upon his thought of attaching a key to a silk ribbon in a thunderstorm? That great thought led to the invention of electricity. Or, what if Alexander Graham Bell didn’t act on the thought of experimenting with primitive sound transmitters and receivers that led to the…

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    live our lives. Our thoughts cause our feelings and emotions, and then those feelings and emotions cause us to act and react in certain ways, which in turn creates the results and circumstances in our lives. Mind Awareness means becoming aware of the thoughts and the mostly hidden beliefs and programs that underlie our thinking process. It also means becoming aware of our speech and the way we talk to ourselves. Unfortunately, learning how our thinking process impacts every decision we make and…

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    Thought Louis H. Sullivan is the author of the article “Thought,” he notes that he wants people to think without the use of words. Sullivan conveys that words and the spoken language are a brief moment of thought that is declared out for the world to hear, but to be neglected. In his article, Sullivan encourages people to instead of using words, to try and use our imagination and creativity as a form of thinking in the mind. The use of imagination and creativity is a unique technique, and this…

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    In the article, “Wicked Thoughts”, by Jena Pincott, published in Psychology Today, Pincott describes how common and normal it is to have these disturbing, abnormal, and “wicked” thoughts. These thoughts were categorized into 5 divisions; morbid, creepy thoughts, sexually perverse thoughts, prejudiced thoughts, schadenfreude, and violent, murderous thoughts. An opening example of a common wicked thought was “we value our lives and those of others but still have the fleeting impulse to drive the…

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    The automatic thought record worksheet is an important instrument when learning to identify your automatic thoughts and how they are related to your emotional states. This instrument is seen in cognitive behavioral therapy also known as CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy that alters defective emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. The CBT thought record identifies negative automatic thoughts, help clients comprehend the links between thoughts and emotions, analyze the…

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    Castellon, V. Thought Paper #2 Heroin is an opioid pain killer. It is made from morphine, a substance that is found in the seedpod of a poppy plant. Heroin can be mixed with water and injected with a needle, smoked, or snorted up the nose. All of these ways of taking heroin send it to the brain very quickly. This is what makes it very addictive. This drug has caused many overdoses but according to U.S. city mayor we have found the solution. I believe that opening a heroin clinic would be a…

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    Thought Govern Self Our thought can become a self-fulfilling prophecy for ourselves. It had transcended time and space, where the fabric of reality alters as your thought changes. The notion of achievement is founded upon your thought and bounded by your thought. Somewhere in your lifetime you are lost in an abyss of the oceans drifting to find reality. Many people try to grasp what other people 's have, other people 's reality; happiness, love, wealth, and character. the majority of those…

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    private thoughts however is it possible that those thoughts in the mind can be mistaken? Many philosophers have supported the claim that each person is the only one who fully understands what is going on inside their own minds however, there are ways in which this can be counter argued. In specific situations, the mind and those thoughts that roam inside can be mistaken and even deceiving to the individual who is directly perceiving them therefore yes, the mind can be mistaken. This paper will…

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