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	<title>The Option Method &#187; Practicing the Option Method</title>
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	<description>as taught by Bruce Di Marsico</description>
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		<title>How to do the Option Method</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/how-to-do-the-option-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A summary handout on how to do the Option Method.

How to do the Option Method
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		<title>The Practice of the Option Method</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-practice-of-the-option-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way to help people to be happy in the purest form would be to strictly ask questions while making very few, if any, statements.  The reason for that is: you’re not going to tell someone what they should be feeling, or how they should be feeling, or that they shouldn’t be feeling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Option Session Protocol (commentary)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Attitudes behind the Questions of the Option Session

Option Method &#8211; commentary on An Option Session Protocol
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		<title>The Attitude Behind the Option Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-attitude-behind-the-option-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-attitude-behind-the-option-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A example of the attitude behind the Option Questions.

Option Method &#8211; Question Summary
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		<title>Introduction to the Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/introduction-to-the-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/introduction-to-the-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this talk, Bruce Di Marsico introduces the Option Questions.  One of the key attitudes in asking the Option Questions is knowing that if people are unhappy, they have their own reason.

He concludes with addressing the ultimate answers that we get down to, such as “because I have always believed it,” and the ultimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Variants of the Option Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/variants-of-the-option-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/variants-of-the-option-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variants of the Option Questions

Option Method &#8211; Variants of the Option Questions
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		<title>The Client is the Expert</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-client-is-the-expert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-client-is-the-expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practicing the Option Method]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this lecture, Bruce Di Marsico discusses that clients are experts on their own unhappiness.  Option Method practitioners, are not.

His primary theme is that the practitioner helps somebody with the unhappiness that they want to deal with.  Furthermore, something is only unhappiness if the client considers the feeling something they don’t like.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Option Attitude/Functional Unhappiness</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-option-attitudefunctional-unhappiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-option-attitudefunctional-unhappiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practicing the Option Method]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this talk, Bruce Di Marsico talks about the foundation of the Option Method: the Option Attitude.

The Option Attitude includes knowing that the client is always right, that your knowing why the client is unhappy does the client no good, even if you’re right, and that the Option practitioner is not here to make somebody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Option Method with Others</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-option-method-with-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/the-option-method-with-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practicing the Option Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.choosehappiness.net/wp-cms/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this talk, Bruce Di Marsico talks about the prerequisites for someone to benefit or to help someone using the Option Method.

There are no prerequisites.

The Option Method can benefit those who do not accept its premises.

The Option Method can be used fruitfully by those who are not perfectly happy.

The practitioner and client do not need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Option as Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/option-as-therapy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.choosehappiness.net/2009/option-as-therapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryeh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Practicing the Option Method]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.choosehappiness.net/wp-cms/?p=301</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this talk, Bruce Di Marsico gives guidance for applying the Option Method.

First, he explains that understanding more about the Option Method is not necessary.  The core understanding is that our emotional states come from our beliefs, and that we use unhappiness to motivate ourselves.  Knowing the core understanding better doesn&#8217;t require knowing [...]]]></description>
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