Resilience: Armor for Your Mind

Listen carefully to what I say, but don't believe a word of it. Language and rule-governed behavior have severe limitations, experience does not.

We can't change evolution's work, but we can alter what we pay attention to (mindfulness) and how we REACT to "perceived" threat (acceptance).

Resilience is key to mental health and is something you can enhance through acceptance of and willingness toward aversive events. Are you focusing on the content of your life (thoughts, sensations, emotions) or on the context (what's happening right now)? You do have a choice.

NOW, GET OFF YOUR BUT! Yes, it's spelled right. Replace the word "but" with "and" and accept responsibility for your behavior and your life. Try it, see how it feels.

StayPresent ... StayTheCourse ... BeResilient!

Title: Resilience: Armor for Your Mind

Key Words: anxiety, combatcounselor, depressed, depression, health, kccbt, mental, resilience, resilient, therapy, fear, armor, mind, PTSD, BeResilient, chronicle

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Are you as sick and tired of self-centered people as I am? 
Learn why they act that way...read my explanation below and WATCH THE NEW 
CombatCounselor Q&A
Episode 7: Values
Sundays at 11AM (CST) ... or thereabouts..
ON THE 
COMBATCOUNSELOR CHANNEL

In this episode of CombatCounselor Q&A, Chris discusses "values" or the lack thereof in society, American and around the world, today. Individuals, institutions, and nation states are in disarray, and Chris believes it is because of a lack of or alienation from CORE VALUES. They either never had any values to begin with or have lost their way somehow.
Chris goes on to describe how to define values as well as how you can define your own values and goals. Without values and goals, people and institutions tend to act based on emotion, and that is not a smart way to act in a world where we depend on one another to survive.
Body-Mind-Behavior Therapy helps people and groups learn to focus on the present moment, StayPresent; develop resilience skills in order to be able to act more effectively when challenged by crisis, BeResilient; and how to define and commit to acting in accordance with those values...it does not get much simpler than that!

People who lack clear values have only one way to ACT when confronted with a crisis or novel situation...EMOTIONALLY...SELFISHLY because that is the way we, humans, are programmed. Think about it, life, since the beginning of time, has been about self-preservation, survival, so can we blame them?
Yes and no. We cannot blame them because, MOST OF THE TIME, it is a reaction, not a well thought out act or action. On The other hand, we can blame them for either not defining or not understanding their values and how their behavior impacts others. Believe it it not, it is a choice in many more ways than one.
Here is the link to this video: http://t.co/q87KaPvh
StayTheCourse
C.T. Sorrentino, LtCol, USAF (Ret)
aka CombatCounselor

Submission to President Obama: State of the Union Q&A (January 24th, 2012)

As a retired Air Force officer, combat veteran, disabled veteran, and licensed professional counselor (since 1991) I am not surprised many of the hundreds of thousands of young men and women who have served in Iraq/Afghanistan came home with PTSD, TBI, and other disorders, but are EXTREMELY hesitant to seek help and treatment. 
Until the Commander-in-Chief, JCS, Service Secretaries, and chain of command (in all services) STOP THE RETALIATION and END THE NEGATIVE STIGMA associated with mental health treatment in the military, our young men and women ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO AVOID TREATMENT, SUFFER, AND COMMIT SUICIDE!
TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS and give our airmen, soldiers, seamen, and Marines 100% confidentiality in mental health treatment and EDUCATE THE BROWNSHOES who keep this ridiculous schema alive. Follow CombatCounselor and @CombatCounselor on Twitter for more information and updates.
Mr. President, Will you work to put an end the negative stigma attached to military mental health care and the associated unprecedented SUICIDE rate among military members/veterans because they are afraid to ask for the help the so richly deserve?
combatcounselor - , Kansas City, MO.
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Resilience: Armor for Your Mind

Listen carefully to what I say, but don't believe a word of it. Language and rule-governed behavior have severe limitations, experience does not.

We can't change evolution's work, but we can alter what we pay attention to (mindfulness) and how we REACT to "perceived" threat (acceptance).

Resilience is key to mental health and is something you can enhance through acceptance of and willingness toward aversive events. Are you focusing on the content of your life (thoughts, sensations, emotions) or on the context (what's happening right now)? You do have a choice.

NOW, GET OFF YOUR BUT! Yes, it's spelled right. Replace the word "but" with "and" and accept responsibility for your behavior and your life. Try it, see how it feels.

StayTheCourse ... BeResilient!

Title: Resilience: Armor for Your Mind

Key Words: anxiety, combatcounselor, depressed, depression, health, kccbt, mental, resilience, resilient, therapy, fear, armor, mind, PTSD, BeResilient, chronicle