Much Of What We Call Emotion Is

We Teach People That They Upset Themselves. We Can't Change The Past, So We Change How People Are Thinking, Feeling And Behaving Today.

I Started To Call Myself A Rational Therapist In 1955; Later I Used The Term Rational Emotive. Now I Call Myself A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapist.

If Human Emotions Largely Result From Thinking, Then One May Appreciably Control One's Feelings By Controlling One's Thoughts - Or By Changing The Internalized Sentences, Or Self-talk, With Which One Largely Created The Feeling In The First Place.

Whenever You Avoid Alarming Situations, You Almost Always Increase Your Anxiety About Them.

When I Was 16 I Started Keeping A Diary In Which I Recorded My Disagreements With The Famous Philosophers. I Didn't Insist That They Were Wrong, That I Was Right And I Had To Prevail. I Just Agreed And Disagreed With Them. I Thought There Was A High Degree Of Probability That I Was Right And Some Other Thinkers Were Wrong. But I Wasn't Positive About It.