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		<title>3 Thought Functions Create ALL Your Problems</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2012/05/compare-predict-evaluate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a big claim, but I believe I can back it up. From your experience. We&#8217;ll get to your experience at the end of the article. First though, what is a &#8220;thought function&#8221;? I suppose I could have just said &#8220;thinking processes&#8221; but that is understood generally as an aspect of Goldratt&#8217;s Theory of Constraints. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money CAN buy happiness!</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2012/04/money-can-buy-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as you spend it on other people not yourself according to Michael Norton from Harvard Business school in this TED talk. Counter-intuitive isn&#8217;t it? Who would have thought that “spending on other people has a bigger return for you than spending on yourself.” And even better, he says, “The specific way that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A word from our sponsors: &#8220;Start marching!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2012/01/a-word-from-our-sponsors-start-marching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t follow the advice in my earlier post about doing little bits of exercise when you can, perhaps you could try this. Stand up when the commercials come on TV and start marching! The Los Angeles Times reports on a recent study that will appear in the February issue of the journal Medicine &#38; Science in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Drop and give me 2!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/08/exercise-a-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This research examined the effects of very brief, but frequent, amounts of physical activity on coronary heart disease risk. And, guess what? It&#8217;s worth it, even if you think it isn&#8217;t. The research was a meta-analysis, an aggregate study of  other research studies. The researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health examined 33 studies and found that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re always free to choose&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/05/youre-always-free-to-choose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 10:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;you just might not like the choices available right now! &#8220;Once you go beyond fear, there is freedom of being that no one can ever take away from you: the freedom of choosing your own reactions.&#8221; Ingrid Betancourt]]></description>
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		<title>How do you respond to labels?</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/05/how-do-you-respond-to-labels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 01:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labels, including diagnostic ones, are only useful to the extent they enable constructive action. Personally, I tend to avoid them. This is partly because of the validity problems with diagnostic systems like the DSM. But mostly because my labelling someone turns therapy into NWS or "Now What?" Syndrome.]]></description>
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		<title>Suppose you assumed this&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/04/suppose-you-assumed-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assumptions are powerful, automatic, invisible and (now that you know that) capable of being brought under voluntary control.]]></description>
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		<title>Do psychotherapists need therapy? Over 60% of therapists say yes!</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/03/psychotherapists-need-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/03/psychotherapists-need-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://actofliving.com.au/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t believe this even when I saw it. Goodtherapy.org initiated a poll of Mental Health practitioners on their mailing list. Here are the results: http://www.goodtherapy.org/201103-poll-results.html# [Note: you have to vote in the poll to see the results, but you don't have to join goodtherapy.org to vote.] When I checked it today (March 26), 61.1% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a pebble in your shoe?</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/03/is-there-a-pebble-in-your-shoe/</link>
		<comments>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/03/is-there-a-pebble-in-your-shoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of work with clients on noticing three mental functions: Prediction, Comparison and Evaluation. I&#8217;ll say some more on that in another post, but I&#8217;ve noticed that when people start to see how much comparing, evaluating and predicting their minds do, there&#8217;s often an immediate urge to &#8216;fix&#8217; this problem. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Practise Mindfulness In 20 Seconds Or Less!</title>
		<link>http://actofliving.com.au/2011/01/micro-meditation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian McNally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Busy? Thought so. Me too. Hence, short sentences. But you&#8217;re breathing, right? So can you do whatever you need to right now to give your full attention to the sensations that breathing produces? Just for one breath? (Takes about 20 seconds if you do it right). Done it? Good, then we&#8217;re finished here! Unless, you [...]]]></description>
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