Comments on: On the difficulty of understanding new solutions to old problems

By: Raleigh Missy

Raleigh Missy — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:55:18 +0000

Posting AND doing aren’t mutually exclusive Phil. In fact, I think it
would be in your best interests to do both.

By: Raleigh Missy

Raleigh Missy — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:25:29 +0000

Hi Phil,
I read your post, thought “yeah, this is all correct…”, and then I
reread the title of your post. “..the difficulty of understanding…”
I’m not sure, but I wonder if there are different ways to come to
understand. There’s the intellectual route where Mr or Mrs Higherbrain will
poke and probe and analyse and in the end come to some conclussions that
may or may not lead somewhere else. And then there’s an ‘experiential’
route. In this one we ‘do’. And as the ‘doing’ and it’s results become part
of our repeated experience we come to understand on a very different
level. However, this requires a degree of trust with which some of us have
a great deal of difficulty. Phil, I think if I were coming to cognitive
quitting now, with none of my prior experience in this area, I’d probably
be ‘examining’ it to death… endlessly questioning as to how and why and
if. Maybe this is some of the difference between men and women and the
demographics of this group, or maybe that’s just another hair.

So - what are you going to do Phil?
Steve

By: Blanche Oralia

Blanche Oralia — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:07:34 +0000

Hi Phil
I don’t think cogquitting is about “replacing chemical hits with
something bland and ordinary”. I’d see it more as dealing with the
physical consequences of emotions, triggered by the events that made
us think we ‘needed’ to smoke. If we quit, we give up getting
those ‘hits’ - but I suspect the hits were only ever really about a
body that was often crying out for its fix and got relief, rather
than a hit.
And yes - doing the ABC’s is what’ll make it all work. Thats come
home to me in recent days/weeks. Are you actively ABC’ing?
Anita
— In CognitiveQuitSmoking@y…, “dd_philpearson”