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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
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Care Caring Selfish
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
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Lives Our Purpose Void
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
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Acceptance Precursor Serenity
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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Aspects Future Limits Past Responsibility
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
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Highest Important Purpose Sometimes
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
Meaning isn’t something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
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Chance Choices Meaning
We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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Choose Feels Ironically
To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.
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Causes Interpretation Thinking
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
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Doing Done Nothing Problem
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

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