Doing More Of What Doesn't Work Doesn't

The Practice Of Assertiveness: Being Authentic In Our Dealings With Others; Treating Our Values And Persons With Decent Respect In Social Contexts; Refusing To Fake The Reality Of Who We Are Or What We Esteem In Order To Avoid Disapproval; The Willingness To Stand Up For Ourselves And Our Ideas In Appropriate Ways In Appropriate Contexts.

We Are Anxious When There Is A Dissonance Between Our "knowledge" And The Perceivable Facts. Since Our "knowledge" Is Not To Be Doubted Or Questioned, It Is The Facts That Have To Be Altered.

Individualism Is At Once An Ethical-psychological Concept And An Ethical-political One. As An Ethical-psychological Concept, Individualism Holds That A Human Being Should Think And Judge Independently, Respecting Nothing More Than The Sovereignty Of His Or Her Mind; Thus, It Is Intimately Connected With The Concept Of Autonomy. As An Ethical-political Concept, Individualism Upholds The Supremacy Of Individual Rights

It Is Painful To Face The Self We Know We Have Never Had The Integrity To Honor And Assert.

Suppose You Feel You Cannot Accept Some Fact About Yourself. Then Own Your Refusal To Accept. Own The Block. Embrace It Fully. And Watch It Begin To Disappear. The Principal Is This: Begin Where You Are-accept That. Then Change And Growth Become Possible.