I'm not sure if I agree with this. Certainly, repeating self-help mantras and affirmations are not going to miraculously transform your life overnight. However, they can be put to good use when you are doing other things, over a long period of time, to re-Program yourself. I.e., they can be helpful re-Minders and re-in-forcers, but they are not the main course.
Don't underestimate the power of neuro-plasticity.
>> Don't underestimate the power of neuro-plasticity.
I don't. I make use of it all the time, and have changed even my physical structure in ways that most people could not credit even by an exercise of imagination.
I meant only that the study was simplistic. And it appears that you do not disagree with me on that point, given that you are lumping in affirmations, etc., with "other things", "over a long period of time."
Indeed it was, like most studies. One of the problems with the scientific method (particularly re: the "softer" sciences of Psych), IMNSHO, is that they isolate things for lab testing that aren't meant to be isolated, but rather part of a greater whole and holistic view of approaching things.
We are definitely on the same page re: the scientific method. I am as holistic as they come. I think all of the government funding for these bullshit academic studies should be pulled.
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Date: 2009-06-23 04:54 pm (UTC)Don't underestimate the power of neuro-plasticity.
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:02 pm (UTC)I don't. I make use of it all the time, and have changed even my physical structure in ways that most people could not credit even by an exercise of imagination.
I meant only that the study was simplistic. And it appears that you do not disagree with me on that point, given that you are lumping in affirmations, etc., with "other things", "over a long period of time."
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Date: 2009-06-23 05:35 pm (UTC)Indeed it was, like most studies. One of the problems with the scientific method (particularly re: the "softer" sciences of Psych), IMNSHO, is that they isolate things for lab testing that aren't meant to be isolated, but rather part of a greater whole and holistic view of approaching things.
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Date: 2009-06-23 06:02 pm (UTC)