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Little Miss Happy Sep 2021 3:15pm, 14 Sep 2021 4,939 posts	0 Little Miss Happy Lots EP - NLP is more about understanding language and how people use it, and it isn't endorsed or funded by the NHS (as far as I'm aware). It's unregulated in the UK. CBT is about your thoughts and how they affect your behaviour.
EvilPixie Sep 2021 3:21pm, 14 Sep 2021 27,903 posts	0 EvilPixie (runs off to look at CBT)
Little Miss Happy Sep 2021 3:25pm, 14 Sep 2021 4,941 posts	0 Little Miss Happy You could start with the CBT for Dummies book EP but like everything else you can't buy success with it. You have to invest in it mentally and do the work. It's an ongoing process to be mindful of your thoughts and actively work to change them. It can be as simple as reframing 'I've got to do the shopping' to 'I get to do the shopping' (acknowledging that being able to go to a shop and buy what you want is a privilege) or changing 'I have to do a marathon after this' to 'just a marathon to go now'.
EvilPixie Sep 2021 3:28pm, 14 Sep 2021 27,905 posts	0 EvilPixie thanks LMH I appreciate it
Albert O Balsam Sep 2021 4:06pm, 14 Sep 2021 822 posts	0 Albert O Balsam I have just begun to follow Dan Abrahams on Linked In - he's a sports psychologist, and 'wow' in the words of Look-in, I never knew there was so much in it. He's also got a podcast - the sports psych show. Absolutely fascinating, especially from my own experience where sport was just running around a bit until you got too tired
Sharkie Sep 2021 4:16pm, 14 Sep 2021 18,593 posts	0 Sharkie Thanks Albert - that is just the sort of thing I'm after. Have instantly found and favourited on Apple Podcasts. What sort of running around? In ovals or around The Town (and/or countryside) Half ovals for me.
Dvorak Sep 2021 5:14pm, 14 Sep 2021 23,405 posts	0 Dvorak Came expecting discussion of bicycle steerer parts. Disappointed. (Whilst I'm here, it seems as good a place as any to mention the somewhat odd thing that is Radio 1 Relax bbc.co.uk and in particular its Deep Sleepscapes bbc.co.uk )
Chrisull Sep 2021 5:41pm, 14 Sep 2021 18,394 posts	0 Chrisull Actually "heads" did make me think of the 1960s, probably because too much on my recent reading list has been psychedelically inclined, last years summer reading list looked like this: KLF - Chaos, Magic and the band who burned a million pounds -John Higgs High Weirdness - Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 1970s - Erik Davis Reality is not what it seems - Carlo Rovelli How hippies saved physics - David Kaiser Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks How to change your mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan Still yet to finish, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid test... Anyway I'm very interested in dissolving ego/meditation/breath techniques/consciousness hacks - you name it, CBT does seem to be like a light "western" version of more intense and and mind/life changing practices imported/nicked from Buddhism. Actually a couple of these books (2nd and 6th) link strongly into meditation, and tipped me onto Robert Wright - Why Buddhism is true (which is interesting but kinda dense, and doesn't really have a narrative arc to follow, so attention wanders), and James Nestor's book on breathing, which is entertaining and occasionally - "is this really true, or is this just extreme for fruitcakes only?" (especially ones who are impervious to pain - Wim Hof I'm looking at you). Having said that he royal marines "box" breathing technique detailed in the appendix, I find useful antidote to middle of night wakefulness, which is good but some of the techniques with regards to athletics are just unpleasant. Running while nose breathing on Cornish roads is just like self-asphyxiation. So like yeah... turn on, tune in etc etc
Sharkie Sep 2021 6:28pm, 14 Sep 2021 18,598 posts	0 Sharkie Interesting stuff, Chris - and the Tom Wolfe will be positively Janet and John after that little lot. I struggle with too much focus on 'the breath', which is why I want this thread to be a broad church.
Sharkie Sep 2021 6:39pm, 14 Sep 2021 18,599 posts	0 Sharkie The Robert Wright book sounds good. I've just read a New Yorker review (so very useful on Tana French - and I DO like this 'Wright’s book has no poetry or paradox anywhere in it.' Even though it's followed by this ... 'Since the poetic-comic side of Buddhism is one of its most appealing features, this leaves the book a little short on charm.' I like PLAIN. Ladybird books are go.