Understanding Brings Cure!
F-rustration, hopelessness, futility A-ggressiveness (misdirected) I-nsecurity L-oneliness (lack of "oneness") U-ncertainty R-esentment E—mptiness.
No one sits down and deliberately decides to develop these negative traits. They do not "just happen." Each of them was originally adopted as a method to solve a difficulty or a problem. We adopt them because we mistakenly see them as a method to solve some difficulties. They have meaning and purpose, although based upon a mistaken premise. One of the strongest urges in human nature is to react appropriately. We can cure these failure symptoms, not by will power, but by understandings—by being able to "see" that they do not work and that they are inappropriate. Yes, the truth can set us free from them. And when we can see the truth, then the same instinctive forces which caused us to adopt them in the first place, will work for us to eradicate them.
(Excerpted from Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz)
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