DeCarte said, “I think, therefore I am”. As a result, many people have tried using their internal process of thinking through ‘self-affirmations’ to think differently. Some work very hard to convince their mind to change negative beliefs and thought patterns. Inevitably such affirmations don’t work because their underlying sense of isolation and aloneness remains the same. However in pdxi, the goal is not to change thinking directly. Instead we want to offer the client a change in perspective. Sometimes this might mean even encouraging or exaggerating an old behavior, thought, or emotion. Suddenly the client becomes aware of his old behavior in a new way. It is from this perspective that he is able to make the necessary changes. While it is true that his thoughts will also change, this is the result of a spontaneous shift and not the result of self-affirmations.

In the video, we see how the wife tries to ‘litigate’ the husband to think differently.