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Essay on Self Talk: Key to Personal Growth
This is an intellectual approach to the content of Bible, and because of it almost any reader can relate to it and find it readable whether Christian or non Christian. The author of this book has done a great favor to human kind to point out how we have freedom to define our lives. Stoop describes the essential ingredients for understanding and unleashing the universal power of positive, intentional, and supportive self-talk. He identifies unsupportive, negative self-talk that reduces confidence, dampens self-esteem, and defeats personal performances.
He provides dynamic visual and auditory images and specific examples of purposeful, responsible, and pro-active self-talk behavior. Self-Talk potentially enables one to consciously plan, produce, direct, and perform valued self-talk scripts and roles applicable to daily life and problematic situations. First, youcan rehearse what you clearly want to do. Second, you can through practice and repetition come to value and claim your thoughts. Third your thoughts can become more focused and consistent with desired paths to behavioral objectives. Finally, by owning more consistent thoughts, you can empower behavior into new habits for any given situation or set of challenging circumstances.
As a cognitive Christian, one discovers the "self-talk" approach to be very effective. It is not only backed by research, but it is biblically based. Dr. Stoop does a good job in boiling down a lot of cognitive therapy concepts and biblical psychology into a very practical and easy-to-follow book for counselors and counselees alike. Unlike some Christians whose typical phrases are like, "Jesus will fix you up if you believe in Him," this book teaches you "self reliance." The content is written with scientific (in this case, psychology) basis, and a reader finds it immensely helpful. You don’t have to be very religious to read this book but both religious and non-religious people will find this book wonderful......
