Unlike many pop psychology approaches telling us to think positive thoughts, TSK invites us to investigate the construction of thought and thereby be liberated from thought’s compelling perceptual patterns.
Not positive thoughts….liberation from thoughts :@)
Hayward.
Good Morning Michael,
Thanks for your comment. I certainly agree with the value of “allowing the world to feel friendlier and my role in it more fulfilling”.
However, changing the content of thought from negatively valanced to positively valanced does not look at the structure of the language that forms the content. Merely changing negative to positive leaves unexamined the subject- verb-object way of perceiving. Further more the language of verbal thought partitions infinite space and eternal time into three dimensions—present,past, future and length width and height. The structure of thought becomes a template through which infinity and eternity are viewed.
I was suggesting that TSK unlike “positive thinking” offers an opportunity to step out of the constraints of conventional thought and offers a new way of viewing the wonders of being.
Hi Hayward,
(Lost my previous comment, so here goes again). My sense of prefering the company of certain kind of thoughts and activities over others doesn’t feel like the application of a psychological technique. It’s more like leaving room for the things that allow the world to feel friendlier and my role in it more fulfilling. Not exactly TSK, but perhaps a perspective which TSK study promotes? –Michael