Jonathan Livingstone Therapy & Coaching

14/06/2022

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Elysia Therapy Centre, Stourbridge, Open Day 25 June 2022

Jonathan will be explaining REP and answering questions. Please come along. We'll be very pleased to see you!

Jonathan will also take part in a panel discussion on understanding depression and anxiety and how to overcome them.

More info at https://www.relearning.co.uk/talks-and-demonstrations and https://elysiacentre.org

21/04/2020

Hayfever season for some. Here's a quick way to overcome it (or another allergy) by yourself.

Cure an allergy in just ten minutes. Includes a method from NLP and TAT.

03/01/2020

Feelings motivate action:

'The more muted the feeling motivating action, the more effort is required to act; the stronger the feeling motivating an action, the less will is required. In other words, actions that are in line with the aims of the body are easy to carry out; those which are at variance are more difficult. Restraining behaviour through the will - refraining from doing something - is very difficult if your feelings are impelling you to do it. Willing yourself to some behaviour, when your feelings aren't supporting that behaviour, or are opposing that behaviour, is equally laborious and may seem impossible.

'Conscious will is however very important, since it is the conscious will that informs the unconscious body what it is that you want. But, in itself, conscious will does not mandate action.'

Relearning Experience, p. 72.

27/07/2019

From Relearning Experience:

Misidentifying emotions

You feel something in your body and you wonder what you could be feeling. Something has happened. You consider what it is you should feel or would expect to feel in response to this occurrence. You decide that you’d expect to be feeling anger, sadness, or some other emotion. Therefore, you conclude, that emotion is what you must be feeling . . . But thinking and feeling are different realms. Reasoning is a cerebral activity; thinking is something you do in your head. Emotions are not in the head: they relate to feelings which take place in the body. Thinking is the wrong way to determine what you’re feeling.

13/06/2019

Just five days until publication of Relearning Experience: To Resolve Emotional Issues. Preorder now at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=relearning+experience&fbclid=IwAR2oHpTOjPw2Cy5gFLun7ctrIiSVM-Y9om6Ngcl8pWodEd_th_BngI-yujU&ref=nb_sb_noss
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25/04/2019

From Relearning Experience (discussing the difference between a learning from experience and an intellectual belief):

Mentor: Beliefs gained from other authorities are generally held intellectually; they are not generally strongly held on an emo­tional or feeling level – so they can be readily changed. Associations derived through experience, on the other hand, are held at the level of feeling and emotion. Such beliefs, or learnings, are involuntary and cannot simply be put aside by an effort of will.

Enquirer: What about religious, political and social beliefs? They do not concern facts, and they are not really based on experience, but they are certainly held on the level of feeling.

Mentor: Although we talk about political beliefs, such ‘beliefs’ are not a matter of truth or falsehood in the manner of intellectual or emotional beliefs (the earth goes round the sun or doesn’t; elem­ents are formed by nuclear fusion, or not) but, rather, a matter of allegiance. For example, a ‘belief ’ in social justice is a support for the value of fairness in society; it is not a belief in the existence of such justice. Similarly, a ‘belief ’ in integrity is support for the value of integ­rity; it is not a belief in the existence of in­teg­rity. This is true of all political ‘beliefs’: they are social values upheld as uni­versal principles to be strived for.

17/04/2019

On feelings and emotions (from the book: www.relearning.co.uk)

But if we speak more technically, more precisely, the feeling is the physical counterpart or somatic aspect of the emotion. The emotion exists as a phenomenon distinct from the feeling. The feeling is physical; the emotion is something else. Just as a thought is not a physical object but has a physical counterpart in the brain, so emotion is not a physical phenomenon but has a physical counterpart in the body. Brain process and thought; physical feeling and emotion – these are connected events but occurring at different levels.

17/03/2019

New website now online for Relearning Experience: www.relearning.co.uk

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17/03/2019

Relearning Experience hardback publication date: 18 June 2019. Review copy available.