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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Bill Crawford

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Changing Life Practice Want
Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
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Belief Stress Worry
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
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Our Lives Permission Want
Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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Creating Mean Purpose
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.
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Feels Form Successful
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
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
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.
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Burning Light Needs
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry
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

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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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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