Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.
BILL CRAWFORDFreedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!
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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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Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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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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In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.
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Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
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You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.
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Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.
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Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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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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Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?
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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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If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
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In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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