[Ailist] Life Lie/Faking It

[Nancy Stetson]

>Hi Rob,

"Life giving" works for me, as does "generative".

Nancy

>On 12 May 2007 at 18:27, Howard Ditkoff wrote:
>
>So this is something that has always made me realize there are limits to where
>> the positive principle applies. Sometimes the wholeness principle seems
>> to require going through some things that are not pleasant or positive
>> in order to get back in touch with reality.
>
>Hi Harold
>
>I think you raise an important point about social constructionism and the need to
>be reality based, even knowing that "reality" is the something we construct.
>I find myself moving from what is "positive" to that which is "life giving"  Just
>being positive is not necessarily helpful.  Fredrickson's work suggests that when
>people's positive to negative emotions goes over 11:1 people cannot engage in 
>creative thinking because they have gone into denial, or are no longer accurately
>mapping reality in a helpful life-giving way. We cannot change what we cannot
>see or accept.
>
>Rob
> 
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