ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the advantages and disadvantages of holding a particular rule or assumption. In the following example, the client's assumption written on both advantages and disadvantages. Client assumption: 'If I'M Not in Control of My Feelings, Then I'll Become Unstable and Hysterical'. Advantages: 'It keeps me emotionally strong'. Disadvantages: 'I feel emotionally repressed as well'. With the disadvantages outweighing the advantages and some of the advantages revealed as self-defeating, clients are then likely to start change and thereby generate more functional assumptions I don't believe any longer that expressing my feelings, when it is proper, they lead to instability or hysteria but instead, I hope lead to a richer emotional life that I have denied myself for so long'. The client can now, with this assumption, explore new possibilities for himself such as laughing uproariously when he finds something very funny compared with before allowing himself only a mild titter to support self-control in the company of others.
