"There are no facts, only interpretations"

STEP TWO: Put your paradoxical plan into effect--do it with zest.

Paradoxical intention: Do what you fear! (Don't try to increase the

fear reaction.) Worry even more! Try to stay awake! Try to like a

messy house! Like dirty floors and dishes! Avoid trying to have a

climax!

Symptom prescription: Increase the unwanted behavior! Increase

the fear! Do the feared action more often! What do you have to lose?

You have been doing the unwanted behavior anyway! If you have no

trouble producing more unwanted behavior, do more! Since that

damn, lousy habit wants to occur so badly, make it occur over and

over! Do it until you are sick and tired of it (like the boy caught

smoking and forced to smoke three strong cigars, one after another).

Changing your outlook and goals: What seems crucial to you at

one time may paradoxically become unimportant in the long run. Small

breast development may humiliate a girl at 16 but please her at 35.

You may long to be the best guitarist, basketball player, or sex object

in school but get very little satisfaction out of that skill when you are

50. It might be nice to have someone's love but it isn't a necessity! It

hurts to be rejected but it isn't the end of life! Challenge your harmful

irrational beliefs!