Thought Viruses: Powerful Ways to Change Your Thought Patterns and Get What You Want in Life

By Donald Lofland

Book Overview

Thought viruses are unconscious thought patterns that distort our thinking and perception of the world. They can have a crippling effect on our professional and personal lives, leading to internal conflict, depression, failed relationships, and even serious health problems. Dr. Donald Lofland's latest book, Thought Viruses, integrates the tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the life-transforming system of personal empowerment, with mind-body healing techniques that will help readers pinpoint and eradicate the destructive viruses in their lives. ????????Dr. Lofland's skillful explanation of the types and structures of thought viruses shows readers how these self-defeating glitches in thinking strongly parallel biological and computer viruses in their capacity to take on a life of their own, self-replicate, and destabilize an entire system. He teaches readers why these toxins stall healthy mental activity and identifies how they manifest in our bodies in a variety of different forms, including debilitating fears of failure; excessive worry and guilt; compulsions and addictions; self-sabotaging tendencies; and internal conflicts that can trigger chronic, degenerative disease. Using his groundbreaking "Thought Virus Therapy" and step-by-step interactive exercises, Dr. Lofland teaches readers to reverse the emotional and psychological triggers that lead to self-destructive behavior and health problems and helps them move toward psychological and spiritual wholeness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517887428
• ISBN13: 9780517887424
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Read this with an open mind

Thought Viruses is an excellent book but takes a long time to read if you actually do the exercises which are probably worth doing; although I didn't spend the time to do them all. Donald Lofland is a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practioner. He also has a PH.D and he talks about how we can change our thought patterns and re-program ourselves to reach the success that we want. With Spring coming on, I am starting to get hay fever and allergies and there was an interesting chapter on how using an NLP, someone can cure allergies. This is definitely something that I am looking to try. If anyone knows a good NLP practioner, I would be interested in speaker to her or him. There are a total of 40 exercises in the book on everything from discovering your mission, setting life goals, setting priorities in life, looking at your personal uniqueness and your values, etc., through to looking at specific thought patterns. The book makes some unbelievable claims. Read it with an open mind though. Sometimes the unbelievable is true (and I am a hard driving suspicious CEO) This book is worth reading.

I CAN SEE THE MIND WORKING

This is a wonderfull book. It shows in a clear and easy way, the processing of our thoughts and becomes possible to change what is not worthwhile. It shows us the ways to change our programing and our estrategies of thought.

Practial and Effective Application of NLP

"Thought Viruses" presents clear and practical steps to identifying self-defeating thought patterns and internal conflicts, and the methods to eliminate them. The book emphasizes a number of remedial Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) methods, such as State Strategies (including submodalities), 6-Step Reframing, and Collapsing Anchors, and demonstrates step-wise practical application of these techniques. Dr. Lofland shows how to overcome depression, allergies, procrastination, and fear of failure/success. He also discusses how to make improvements in the areas of intimacy, communication, and even in responding to cancer. Throughout he creates a convincing analogy of harmful thoughts/beliefs to a virus, specifically "Thought Viruses," with the treatment for these being NLP-based "anitviral remedies." I recommend this as an excellent book for those wishing to deal with the topics mentioned, or for those seeking an explicit description of practical NLP application.