- Feeling Great Notes
- Flirting - Less serious, more playful. Stop taking people so seriously
- Acceptance paradox: Surrender with a sense of humor. Find the truth
- Be specific about flaws
- Positive reframing: Show the advantages of negative thoughts
- Experiment: Test the truth
- Compassion: Treat yourself like a dear friend
- Rejection practice: Accumulate rejections and discover that the world won't come to an end
- Feared fantasy: Imagine the worst fantasy and respond with the acceptance paradox
- Blame cost benefit analysis. What are the advantages of blame?
- Four Great Deaths
- The Special Self:
- Accept that you are not special. Accept that you're happy without needs, approval, self esteem, or self.
- The Fearful Self:
- Surrender to the fear. Stop trying to control or avoid the monster.
- The Blaming/Blameless Self:
- Discover that you're causing your relationship problems. Accept blame for creating the problem. Accept empowerment for creating loving relationships.
- The Entitled/Pleasure Seeking Self:
- Discover that you don't need pleasures from procrastinating or love.