If you have read the previous articles in this series you may be a little bit of confuse now. To tell you the true. Me too! And why is that?
Because If you apply the advices I gave you so far, when reviewing a program for treating anxiety, you may find in many cases, that the amount of authentic information, you can use for making a decision, is very small.
In many cases, the preview you get is deliberately made to give you the minimum information you need to make the purchase. The idea is to plant in the potential customer the impression that there is something in the program he or she would like to know more about, but the only way to get this additional information is by sign-in or by making the purchase.
They tell you nothing to make you want something. This is a pure marketing technique and it should not confuse you.
If we are so manipulated by text, when reading program's preview what can we do to establish some positive perspective? By positive perspective I mean a perspective, that give us some authentic knowledge and true understanding, beyond the curtains of original text.
What I will try to show you in the next whole health psychological center few articles is how to recognize some keywords in the text that can give you basic hints about the general approach on which program was established.
When you will be able to map a text, you can discover its underlie scheme. This scheme - "systematic plan or arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect".
Program's scheme is not arbitrary but is taken from a more general approach you can call paradigm. The paradigm is a framework for establishing and delivering knowledge. This include, the type of contents and ingredients that construct the knowledge, mass of researches, teaching books, community of researchers and above all - terminology.
The paradigm dictate a "way of thinking" for whom act within it, and it is dictated by network of terms linked with each other in some way, and apply some sort of "gravity" on each other. The paradigm, is the very specific "time-space" of some field of knowledge. The same terms, and the same materials can be connected differently, and act under different paradigms, delivered by different believers.
What I want to help you to do in the next articles, is to learn how to discover, as much as possible, the underlie paradigm(s) on which some training program is established.
When considering which treatment for anxiety, is the best for me, the first step of getting out of blindness, is to know few things about the psychological and therapeutic paradigms behind those programs.
Please note, that knowing the paradigm, or knowing the theory underlie some program WILL NOT help you in the cure process. Some approaches would like to teach you some theory before you start your treatment, so you will have a basic rationalization on which treatment can apply its manipulation, but this is only for preparing you to the treatment.
There is one exception here, which is when someone take a treatment as part of his or her training of being a psychotherapist, or coacher or trainer for this specific program he now experienced with. In this case, knowing the theory, may help a little bit to leverage the curing process, but only when being able to pass the resistance generated by rationalization.
So if it will not help you in the cure process, why am I learning you that?
A simple answer - If you don't understand, at least to some basic level, the paradigms on which programs are established, you are a complete subject of the marketing message. And I don't want you to be! Because I believe that also in a hyper commercial environment, such as the Internet, someone that want to help himself deserve to some sort of honesty.
When meet with psychotherapist, trainer, coach, consultant, whatever the title is, face to face, this expert, and I mean a true one- not charlatan, will immediately act to bring you into a conditions, that allow process of treatment. From the first moment. You will not have to cross a storm of disinformation and convincing messages. The expert will immediately prepare you toward your curing journey. In many cases, this journey does not start immediately, at the first session, but it requires some preparations so patient can bring himself,to the right angel to re-enter atmosphere and go back to hearth (a metaphor of course!).
When you search a program for curing anxiety on the Internet, which is a natural act today as an effect of modern technology, you are bombed with distracting information, that all its purpose is to make you purchase some specific program.
I want to guide you to how see behind the curtains!
And I will try to make it, as much as possible, less theoretical and more practical. There is a huge amount of theoretical contents for each approach I am going to expose you in the next coming articles. You can search he Internet and learn about each subject, starting today and ending by next century. Don't make this learning process into another distracting factor in your way for curing anxiety.
The cure is not by knowing and understanding. The cure is by re-mapping!
On the next coming articles I will present you various approaches, and show you how to map program's preview by recognizing keywords.
In the same way you can learn to map a text and uncover its underlie paradigm, a psychological treatment is a process that start its action by mapping the ingredients of some behavior. Different techniques uses different approaches for doing this mapping, and refer to different levels where ingredients may reside.
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