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Chance Action Therapy - The Playful Way of Changing (Hardcover, New)
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Chance Action Therapy - The Playful Way of Changing (Hardcover, New)
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Total price: R2,881
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Throughout history, in times of economic or political uncertainty,
people have called on Lady Luck for help. None of the 30,470
self-help books (Amazon.com results) deals with utilising chance
for solving problems in living. Features: This book shows how to
let chance and chance-inspired action work for us. Thus, the
process of changing stops being a chore and becomes a playful
experience; The book starts with the "paradox of change": the
difficulty of changing things that seem to depend on us (e.g.
fulfil "new year resolutions," maintain physical fitness, keep
eating right or avoid procrastination). Understanding this paradox
is half the way towards its solution; Most methods of therapy and
self-help prescribe different variations on willpower, positive
thinking and insight. This book raises questions about the value
and validity of explanations invented after the fact; it shows that
"willpower" is nothing we can count on; and suggests that chance
plays an important role in the creation of problems and that we
should accordingly use it to solve them; The book consists of three
kinds of interwoven chapters: Game chapters tell the story of
women, men and couples using chance and luck (by means of dice and
self-prepared playing cards) to solve a persistent difficulty. The
problems dealt with include, among others, diet, smoking, couple
relations and sexuality, shyness and inhibition, sex addictions,
posture, panic and anxiety states, obsessions and compulsions.
These chapters teach the reader to invent, play and modify her or
his unique game; Chance chapters are our consciousness raising
campaign. We examine and celebrate chance and luck from the
perspectives of personal experience, literature, biology,
psychology, economics and philosophy. Readers are turned into
chance champions; Change chapters deal with the 'paradox of change'
clarifying why change is so evasive, and why chance action and play
are what the doctor ordered.
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