FREE online courses on Handling Our Own Aggression & Anger - Level IV
Cognitive processes involved in reducing aggression - Take a deterministic view
of the world
The beauty of determinism is that it provides a way of
experiencing life--all of it--as an understandable, "lawful," astonishingly
beautiful, marvelously complex, and ever changing process. There are reasons for
everything; thus, everything that happens must happen and everything that
doesn't happen is impossible or "unlawful" at that moment. Therefore, we should
be accepting of ourselves, warts and all, and tolerant of others, hostility,
greed, and all.
By understanding our enemy's background, needs, attitudes,
and dreams, we can see how they feel and think. We may not agree with them but
we "know where they are coming from." We can understand his/her actions and
feelings. Understanding leads to acceptance.
