The Silly Mind: Learning to Take Life 'More or Less' Seriously

The Silly Mind humorously and lucidly describes how we create our own emotional disturbances and how we can undisturb ourselves. Once acquainted with the role of thoughts in the creation of emotional disturbances and the arbitrary and absurd nature of human ideation, the reader is propelled toward heathier emotional experiences by making those ideas less immutable, more amenable to change. The Silly Mind helps the reader understand how ideas are created, how emotional disturbances occur, how certain ideas are linked to certain disturbed emotions, how to tell the difference between helful and harmful ideas, how to use certain techniques to change disturbed feelings, how to act against these acquired harmful beliefs and how to view oneself and the world with more tolerance.David R. Lima M.S.W. is the author of 'The Silly Mind: Learning to Take Life 'More or Less' Seriously', published 2001 under ISBN 9781893733015 and ISBN 1893733017.