How Words Impact Addiction and Recovery – Featuring Doug McGuirk
How Words Impact Addiction and Recovery – featuring Doug McGuirk – In this interesting lecture, industry professional Doug McGuirk demonstrates how language is a crucial in the recovery process. Using what he calls “Quality Vocabulary Consciousness,” Doug shares concepts that will help anyone who is struggling with addictive behavior and negative emotions. Greetings. Your friendly neighborhood Doug here, and I wanted to expand upon the idea of the QVC. Right, do you remember the Quality Vocabulary Consciousness or Quantum Vocabulary Consciousness? And I wanted to throw out a couple of facts. Did you know that in the English language there are approximately 500000 to 750000 words in the English language, by far more than any other language. The only language that comes close is German, and that’s about 300000. Now, what’s really interesting is this. The English language is more action oriented than any other language, which is a testament to the fact of how quickly America has grown. We’re very proactive, very action oriented. That has some plusses and some minuses, of course. But here’s what really interesting. In the English language, there are approximately 3500 words to describe emotions. 3500 words that are emotional. Check this out. Of those 3500 words, approximately 2500 of them are negative, and about 1500 to 1000 are positive, which means, for some strange reason, in the English language we have more flexibility and more words to make ourselves feel horrible and considerably less, almost half as many words to make us feel great …
SMART Recovery addiction support group meets 7 pm Tuesdays at LGBT Visitor …
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… addiction support group meets 7 p.m. Tuesdays at LGBT Visitor Center in South Beach. SMART Recovery, an addiction recovery and support group, meets 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the LGBT Visitor Center at Old City Hall, 1130 Washington Ave. in Miami Beach.
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