What you resist persists
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Notes
- Attacking doesn’t work, as the famous blue elephant metaphor - SMART DVD. Horvath p. 162 (“an ineffective method). More on this metaphor: “Let me illustrate how focusing on the negative is usually not the way to the solution. Please look out the window but don’t imagine a purple hippopotamus standing on your car, crushing the roof and hood.” Brandenburg, Brian. Power Over Pornography: The Breakthrough Formula for Overcoming Pornography Addiction (p. 59). Kindle Edition.
- “Paraphrasing Stephen Covey, when we try to kill a feeling, it struggles for life. When we let it live, it dies birthing. The founder of modern psychology, Carl Jung [This quote is most often loosely attributed to Carl Jung but other sources list L. Ron Hubbard as the originator.] reportedly stated it another way: ‘What we resist, persists. Brandenburg, Brian. Power Over Pornography: The Breakthrough Formula for Overcoming Pornography Addiction (p. 75). Kindle Edition.
- The original study was actually about a white bear. See Don’t Read This Chapter: The Limits of “I Won’t” Power, McGonigal Ph.D., Kelly. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It (p. 209). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.