The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
BILL CRAWFORDThere’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.
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Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
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The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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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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Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.
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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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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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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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Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
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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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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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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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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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There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
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When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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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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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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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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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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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.
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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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