Posted on 04/22/2018 5:02:56 PM PDT by JockoManning
Which conclusions were you thinking of particularly?
Dr Masaru Emoto's Water Experiment - Words are Alive! 3:42
Well worth the viewing.
Text exchanges can be labeled a type of verbal because they entail words.
How Words, Frequency Can Change Water & Human Behavior - Dr. Masaru Emoto 3:15
CBT is effective in mild to moderate depression along with psychotherapeutic techniques and coaching. It is also a useful adjunct to medication in significant to severe depression.
ECT is useful in severe depression that does not resolve with medication.
Agreed. The Bible indicates that the SPOKEN WORD is more powerful than other modes. Not too surprising given that God SPOKE matter, the galaxy etc. into existence.
I think Christians fail to take such facts into sufficient consideration--and therefore, fail to adjust their priorities accordingly.
Similarly, parents often fail to appreciate the life-long devastations harsh words to their children can exact. Or even 'merely' the absence of affirming words and affections with them.
Many children have acquired serious RAD/ PTSD 'merely' from such characteristics of their parents' communications/lack of communications with them.
95% of the prisoners in our prisons have such a history in their lives.
Interesting.
I believe the research shows that even in severe depression cases, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be powerfully and lastingly effective. It does depend on a very skilled therapist and a great bonding, connection with the client.
In most cases in Qx's therapy cases, those on medication (which he supported in his earlier years) tended to be much more difficult to help rewire their stinking thinking. They were much harder to connect with. It was as though the meds were a kind of buffer that prevented the client from facing life and relationships even in redemptive ways.
In severe depression people are often face down on the bed depressed and unable to perform any tasks. They have often stopped working and some have been unable to sleep and become agitated and psychotic because of days and weeks with little and no sleep.
they often cannot attend and provide the concentration necessary for CBT.
Not any particular conclusions, but all of them, in general.
Your topic is communication through speech.
The written word, IMO, is an animal of completely different stripes.
You yourself know that written words can be misconstrued if the thoughts aren't conveyed properly or thoroughly. Look at our initial meeting as an example. I misconstrued the conversation initially and yet here we are conversing with a better understanding of each other. Facial expressions and intonation might have precluded such a misunderstanding.
Aside...I have devolved over time in my replies, despite the length of this reply. Fewer words in an effort to be more concise...sometimes to my detriment as I don't manage to get my point across.
See 50.
Have you ever studied Milton Erickson of Phoenix? He sometimes solved impossible cases in record time.
Often with paradoxical intention and other cleverness.
He could often enough prescribe MORE of the worst symptom.
Those are certainly worthy points.
The 5 Ws. Once taught in Journalism 101. Today, they’re all but forgotten.
very familiar with paradoxical techniques.
One needs a patient who can respond.
Used to be the 5 Ws. Now it is “They say”.
I will continue to use “is” as in:
Hellary is a loser.
Weiner is a perv.
Islam is evil.
Agreed.
A decent English class used to teach them, too.
....Avoid adverbs in speech and writing
I guess that explains the difference in older jazz and present day rap.
Past analytic applied mathematics focused on the arguments to develop a handful of measurables to best define physical systems. Today, physicists are more focused upon probabilities and computer generated discrete mathematics.
In music, harmony, melody, rhythm, with analytic variation in individual and group efforts described musical talent. Today, all that seems to be missing, substituted by rhythm and profanity alone.
Past writing skills emphasized the use of transitive verbs, adjectives and adverbs to paint pictures of meanings. Today younger writers are reduced to profanity and oversimplified truisms to express simple ideas. provided they can write "cursive".
150 years ago an educated American, even if only educated in studying the Bible and a few books, could advance by building upon which 3-5 things at a time were pondered, to more advanced mature thinking. Today, we appear to have a society mesmerized by having their minds tickled by the same 3-5 things repetitively, without ever advancing to more mature thoughts.
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