I have included the following ideas about emotion in several posts. But remember, repetition, like that used by our coaches and teachers, is a good thing. This is the short version of emotion that more easily fits in a tool bag:
· Emotion is a mental state in [...]

I assume that emotion provides information (Clore, 1994) that is essential to understanding what is going on in any interpersonal situation.
When I wrote my OODA article, I was thinking in general of describing the need to evaluate what is going on in a situation. In quick review, OODA stands for: observe; orient; decide; act. Observe [...]

 
I am taking this example of wisdom directly from McKee and Barber (1999). I want at least one post that exactly fits the definition “seeing through illusion.” So I quote:

We shall now offer a more detailed description of the experience we intend to denote by the phrase “seeing through illusion.” It can be described in [...]

We were finishing a series of sessions and my client had done very well. He accomplished all of his goals concerning an anger issue. Then we talked about how counseling could help a lot of people and that the way counseling went wasn’t what my client had expected.
The compliment… “It wasn’t weird or anything.”
I’ll take [...]

Over the last three years I have developed an approach for counseling people with anger issues. My approach is intended to engage the mostly men I counsel for anger. A lot of I what I do with anger clients is help them understand interpersonal relationships and build better tools for working within a relationship. The [...]