EXCEPT…… it leads us to other parts of our behavior that can DO something about what we are THINKING……..

I know this theory,it might be of interest to you, called Choice Theory, a psychology about human behavior. The creator of it is William Glasser, and he has an Institute in California. He believes that there are four components to what he calls total behavior:

Thinking
Doing
Feeling (Emotions)
Physiology

He also envisions it as wheels of a front wheel drive vehicle; we lead with our thinking and doing as the front wheels, and our emotions and physiology follow. I truly believe this; because what he goes on further to say, is that if one is conscious of thinking, we are already engaged in the other aspects of behavior, whether we have acute awareness of it or not.

How it is most helpful in the counseling aspect for me, is looking at it backwards. Someone says to me that they feel sad, but they don’t know why. The belief of Choice Theory is that we have a thought and do something, even if that action is inaction; the emotions follow, as well as the physiology. We just have to gain the awareness of how it all interacts with one another.

Here in the US, we are such a feeling society I think; in that we feel things and think that they come out of nowhere. All emotions come from somewhere……..