Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Emotions and choice Message-ID: <1368@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:03:07 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1368 Posted: Wed Jul 31 13:03:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 01:43:22 EDT References: <5557@cbscc.UUCP> <591@unc.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 17 > His point (with the intellectual trap) is that while you cannot control your > emotions directly, you can control the surroundings which cause those > emotions. > If you are bummed out, sitting around being bummed out is not going to do > much of anything except keep you bummed out (until you get bored of it...). > Whereas if you go play tennis, go to a play (or whatever turns you on) you > focus on situations which you know bring you pleasure, rather than those > which are bringing you pain. You can't just say 'I will be happy' and start > being happy, but you can do things which you know (from experience) make > you happy. A lot of people do things which they THINK will make them happy > and keep on doing it because they are convinced it SHOULD make them happy > (even though they are not happy while they are doing it...). [GEOFF] Beautiful. -- Providing the mininum daily adult requirement of sacrilege... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr