Instructions: It's important for both the workbook and the mp3 player to remain in the toolbar at the bottom of your screen. This will allow you to toggle back and forth between them and occasionally placing the mp3 player on pause. If you're listening on an iPod-like device, you'll need to print a copy of this workbook starting with page 3.
Start with this mp3 recording: It's not linked so it can be copied over to a separate browser window. Use: Ctrl+C and in a separate browser window, Ctrl+V:  http://www.askcarl.net/W-TFI1.mp3

If the mp3 recordings refuse to play from your browser, it's most likely a problem with your default player. The simple solution is to download a free player, such as RealPlayer. Here's the URL to do that:  http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=downloadcom1 Paste this URL into a separate browser window (so you won't disconnect this workbook) and save the player to your desktop. If the above mp3 files still won't play automatically, do this: Open RealPlayer on your desktop, at the top of the player click "File" then click "Open" and paste in the URL.    Contact me directly with any technical problems: wdslibrary@gmail.com

Discretionary Thoughts: Often there are conscious thought processes residing in the right-brain hemisphere, or the imagination, that do not involve the thinking necessary for the performance of one's routine tasks and responsibilities. For the purpose of the W-TFI Examination, these thoughts will be considered discretionary, and are often goals or fantasies.

Fantasy: These are discretionary thoughts that allow us to vicariously experience something that would be impractical or impossible to achieve in real life. Fantasies are usually positive unless used excessively to avoid the real world.

SuperMan/WonderWoman Fantasy: Fantasies often allow us to vicariously experienced ultimate adventures without the inherent risk. These fantasies are often facilitated by movies, television, novels, and adventure stories. They are healthy unless used excessively to remove oneself from reality for extended periods of time. Sexual fantasies are often in this category.

Fantasy of Aggression: These are fantasies that are sometimes violent, vengeful, and even cruel. They are useful to defuse internal feelings of anger, jealousy, and other forms of mental pain. Aggressive fantasies would be considered negative only if they use up more than a small part of one's mental energy.

Positive Fantasies: Usually fantasies that allow us to pass the time, defuse negative feelings, feel better about ourselves, or offer us feelings of pleasure, are positive fantasies.

Negative Fantasies: If a fantasy is used only for the purpose of procrastination, denial, paranoia, revenger, or the avoidance of an appropriate goal structure, it could be considered negative.

Goal: Goals are the mental images of something that we expect to have happen in the future.

Developing Goal: This is the initial emergence of a goal--the seed of a new idea.

Dynamic Goal: This is a well-developed goal in the mind toward which we are successfully striving.

Static Goal: This is a goal that should have progressed beyond the Developing Goal status but for whatever reason is stuck, blocked, or otherwise not moving.

Externally Stimulated Thoughts: These are drivers of thoughts that relate to all thought processes--goals, fantasies, and miscellaneous. When externally stimulated, thoughts come into you mind from something out in the environment. It can be a conversation with someone, or something you see or hear.

Internally Stimulated Thoughts:  These thought drivers also can include all thought processes. Whoever they seem to come from inside your mind, perhaps rising from old memories, another thought, a feeling, or even out-of-the-blue.

Miscellaneous Obsessions & Memories: This category is for thoughts that don't fit into the category of goals or fantasies, but still seem to be discretionary. They can be internally or externally stimulated.

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