/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /* ponder.js Code was created by C. Eton. Statement author unknown. Only 1 item need to be edited: 1. The Statements array variable. */////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // List the statements to display. Add statements as necessary. var Statements = new Array( 'A firm decision steadies you', 'A nervous illness is fate
appointed, not self appointed.', '\"... a human being has the power to choose what to believe and what not to believe. This power to choose is called the Will.\"
MHTWT p. 141', 'A possibility
is not a probability.', 'A thought produced the symptom
and a thought can take it away.', 'Accept the authority
of your professional.
Stop the sabotage
of self diagnosis.', 'All you have to do to
dispose of fear is to
refuse to believe that
there is danger.
MHTWT p. 362', 'Angry Temper
- negative judgments
(resentment, impatience, indignation, disgust, hatred)
directed against another
person or situation.
Recovery Website', 'Angry temper
is temper turned outward\;
toward another.', '... anticipation is nothing harmful,
but it must be
calm and not fearful.
MHTWT p. 114', 'Anticipation is often
worse than the realization.
MHTWT p. 114-115, 146', '... anticipation is nothing harmful, but it must be calm
and not fearful.
MHTWT p. 114', 'An experience, no matter how mild, is always more intense than a recollection, no matter how severe. MHTWT p. 310', 'Any decision
will steady you.
MYFMYA p.5', '\"Anyone of you who has developed a nervous ailment has suffered a happening that happened to you. You didn\'t manufacture it through your character.\"
MYFMYA p. 121', 'Approval of others
is a want,
not a need.', 'At times we can
lower our standards
to a rock bottom average.', 'At times we can
lower our standards
to good, plain
and poor average.', 'Attack the
weakest links first.', 'Averageness
- most of the things we experience, including
nervous symptoms, are average
- most people have experienced them. Only our tendency to work
them up makes them seem
exceptional to us.
Recovery Website', 'Avoid extreme language
like \'always\' and \'never\'.', 'Avoid self importance.
Others don\'t sit around
and think about
what I did or said', 'Be cool, chilled and unemotional
with regard to symptoms.', 'Be firm
not rigid.', 'Be group minded.', 'Be self-led,
not symptom-led.
MYFMYA p. 114-118', 'Bear the discomfort
and the comfort will come.
MHTWT p. 149', 'Bear the discomfort
in order to gain comfort.
MHTWT p. 149', 'Be the patient patient.', 'By commanding your
muscles to move
you can change
the vicious cycle
into the vitalizing cycle.
MHTWT p. 65,68', 'Calm begets calm,
temper begets temper.
MYFMYA p. 245-246', 'Cautious always,
fearful seldom.', 'Chance has no chance
when a purpose rules.', '\" ...change your beliefs, the belief that your life is steeped in emergencies, in extreme danger,.."
MYFMYA p. 49', 'Change an insecure thought
to a secure thought', 'Change your thoughts
and impulses and your
feelings and sensations
will follow suit.', 'Choose fellowship
over sovereignty.', 'Choose peace over power.
Don\'t go for the
\"symbolic victory\"!
(See, I told you so.)', 'Comfort is a want,
not a need.
MHTWT Chs. 13, 22', 'Comparison temper
is a form of fear temper.', 'Comparisons are odious.
Either it makes us feel
better than others (exceptionality)
or worse than others
(fearful temper).', 'Control of our internal environment is
more important than
triumphs over
external environment.
MHTWT, p. 110', '\"... convictions and certainties can be discarded
and credos can be changed.\"
MHTWT p. 145', 'Cultivate the
\"Inner Smile\"
- Don\'t take your
dear selves too seriously!
MHTWT p. 109', 'Cultivate the
\"Inner Smile\"
- The inner indifference to irritation and tenseness.', 'Decide, plan and act.
- MHTWT p. 42', ' \”Description is the domain of the patient, prediction is the province of the physician.\”
MHTWTP. 97', 'Diagnosis is the
realm of the physician.', 'Discomfort can be
patiently borne,
bravely faced
and humbly tolerated.', 'Dispositions are governed by predispositions.
Spot and change your predispositions.', 'Do not pamper feelings
or coddle thoughts.
MYFMYA p. 256', 'Do not to entertain
hysterical anticipations
in response to average dangers which merely call
for gentle and moderate worry.
MHTWT p. 171', 'Do the things you fear
and hate to do,
until you no longer
fear and hate to do them.
MHTWT p. 329-330', 'Do things in part acts
and then endorse
for each part act.
MHTWT p. 246-249', 'Don\'t blame, complain or explain.', 'Don\'t diagnose insecurity, incurability, untreatability.
MYFMYA, p. 370', 'Don\'t expect outer environment
to tip toe around us.
They\'ll just treat you average.', 'Don\'t expect to be comfortable
in an uncomfortable situation.', 'Don\'t express feelings Of jealousy, feelings Of hatred, feelings Of anger
MYFMYA, pg 85', 'Don\'t give outer expression
to inner environment
when temper is involved.', 'Don\'t let outer environment cross
the bridge of temper
into inner environment.
MHTWT, p. 107', 'Don\'t let the trivialities
of everyday life work you up.', 'Don\'t look to the
past with regret
or the future with worry.', 'Don\'t take your own
dear selves too seriously.
- MHTWT p. 109', 'Don\'t tell me how you feel,
tell me how you function.', 'Drop the danger,
diagnosing and judgment.', 'Drop the excessive need to
control outer environment.', 'Drop the judgment
on others and myself.', 'Drop the need
to be exceptional.
MHTWT p. 84', 'Drop the
over sense of duty.', 'Drop the use of
temperamental lingo.', 'Drop the vanity of always
knowing more,
better and best.
MHTWT pg 162 MYFMYA pg 30', 'Drop the will to fear.
(choosing a state of constant fear
as a protection against danger)', 'Duality leads to lack of spontaneity.
Decide, plan and act.', 'Endorse yourself
for the effort,
not only for the performance.
MYFMYA p. 13', ' \”Events in outer environment, and even in inner environment, are routine in the overwhelming majority of instances.\”
MYFMYA p. 108 ', 'Every act of self-control
leads to a sense of self-respect.
MHTWT p. 166', 'Everyday life is full of
frustration and disappointment.
That\'s average.', 'Every act of self-control produces a measure of self-respect.', ' ...everybody can either
accept a belief
or refuse to believe.
MYFMYA p. 49', 'Excuse rather than accuse, condone and not condemn.', 'We can expect disappointments and we will not be disappointed
MYFMYA pg 87', 'Expect a frustration
every five minutes
and you won\'t be disappointed.', 'Exceptionality is a hope,
a dream and an illusion.
MHTWT p. 84', 'Face, tolerate and endure.
MHTWT p. 147', 'Failure to practice spotting
is Sabotage and so is
failure to
practice muscle control.', '\”Fear can only be eliminated through it\'s opposite, and the opposite is to know
there is no danger\”
MYFMYA P. 9 ', 'Fear is a belief in danger
- beliefs can be changed.
MYFMYA p. 266-269', 'Fearful Temper
- negative judgments (discouragement, preoccupation, embarrassment,
worry, hopelessness, despair,
sense of shame,
feelings of inadequacy)
directed against oneself.
Recovery Website', 'Features and gestures speak.
So do symptoms.
Their language is a one word idiom: DANGER.', 'Feelings are not facts.
They lie and deceive
and tell us there is danger
when there is none.
MHTWT p. 118', 'Feelings call for expression,
temper for suppression.
MHTWT p. 178', '\"Feelings should be expressed. This does not mean they ought to be acted on or acted out. ...they should be communicated or shared with somebody who can be trusted to understand them. They lend themselves to matter-of-fact discussion and calm appraisal. But temper, involving a claim to being right, cannot be reported objectively, calmly and matter-of-factly. It invariably leads to arguments, debates and rebuttals.\"
MHTWT, p. 177-178', 'Fellowship means service,
self-restraint and respect
for the rights of others.
MHTWT p. 49', 'Sensations and feelings rise and fall provided you do not attach the idea of danger. MHTWT p. 356', 'Focus on what you
Can do, Do have
and Do like,
not the opposite.', 'Fumble but function.', 'Go about your
mental health
with a strong aim,
not a loose wish. MHTWT , p. 329', 'Group importance
over self importance.', '\"....happiness is an extreme of a positive feeling, it\'s a toxic joy, not a good joy. It\'s enough if I can say I enjoy things.\"
MYFMYA p. 428', 'Nothing but a harmless outpouring of a nervous imbalance. Distressing but not dangerous', 'Have you endorsed today?', 'Have the courage
to make a mistake
in the trivialities of everyday life.\"
MHTWT p. 203', 'Have the will to \"humility\".', 'Have you made a
five minute phone call?', 'Have your symptoms
but don\'t make
an issue of them.', 'Have your thoughts,
just don\'t entertain them.', 'Helplessness
is not hopelessness.
MYFMYA p. 184', 'Hesitation is fear,
the reverse of determination.', 'Highlight your gains
and blindspot your failures.', 'Humility, Plainness, and Averageness Take The Place Of Arrogance, Exceptionality, and Self Importance
MHTWT pg 110', 'Humor is our best friend,
temper is our worst enemy.
MHTWT p. 108', 'Hurt feelings are just
beliefs not shared.
SEL p. 21', 'I can always share my
feelings with an
understanding party,
without using
\"temperamental lingo\".', 'I can command
my muscles to move.', 'I can feel guilty
without being guilty.', 'I can move my muscles
as needed.
Then endorse.', 'I cannot means
\"I care not\".
MHTWT p. 147, 149', 'I cannot control outer environment,
only my inner environment.', '\'... if done with an eye to its usefulness and meaningfulness in terms of maintaining the family the otherwise uninteresting job assumes the aspect of importance, dignity, duty and responsibility.\'', '\"I can\'t ...\" means
\"I choose not to
bear the discomfort.\"', 'I don\'t need to be
a saint, hero or angel.', '\”I have an egregious sense of importance... it always comes up. I always feel, \'I am the smartest, the finest, the most vital person there is,\' but I don\'t believe it.\”
My Dear Ones, p.143', '\”I wish that my patients were a trifle less concerned about their ethics and morals and legality. They are far too concerned about these matters. Instead of having an average concern, they have an extreme concern about them.\”
MYFMYA p.66 ', 'It\'s not the person,
place or event
that gives us our symptoms;
it is our interpretation
and how it makes us feel.', 'If people become enthusiastic about an issue, they tend to make a crusade... and crusaders are dangerous, because they have no
sense of proportion.
MYFMYA p. 456-457', '\"If an imagination is
constantly preoccupied
with ideas of insecurity
it will be deprived
of the opportunity to occupy itself with those dreams, hopes and visions from which
ideas of security originate.\"', 'If feelings tell lies
they do so because
an incorrect and deceptive
thought is attached to them.
The deception is accomplished
by the thought,
not by the feeling.
MHTWT p. 218', 'If nervous ailment persists
beyond a reasonable time,
its continuance, stubbornness and
\'resistance\' are produced
by continuing, stubborn and \'resisting\' beliefs', 'If peace is the goal,
peace will prevail.', 'If you can\'t change a situation
you can change
your attitude towards it.
MYFMYA p. 108', 'If you fear to do a thing, go ahead and do it. That\'s the only way of convincing oneself that there is nothing to fear about. MYFMYA p. 354', '\"If you have the modesty and humility to know that
you don\'t know, your spotting
will be of the most
perfect and exquisite quality.\"
Works, p.66', '\"... if a person is possessed of a domineering temper he will conceal it in words and acts but reveal it in tone,
gesture and feature.
PVP p. 52', '... ignore the whisperings of the
temperamental lingo.
MHTWT p. 27', 'In the ordinary burst of temper, whether it be presymptomatic or postsymptomatic, you feel the insult or injury was a \'real\' outrage, and think you are \'right\' in considering it a deliberate hurt.\" MHTWT, p. 75', 'In group life, an insincere
gesture of generosity
and fellowship is far more
valuable than an outspoken
expression of enmity and a
brutal assertion of one\'s sovereignty.
MHTWT p. 59', 'Inner Environment
- everything inside your self:
feelings, sensations, thoughts,
impulses and muscles.
Recovery Website', 'Instead of wailing and complaining
we can objectively and calmly
report a situation.', 'Intellectual seeks validity,
romanticists vitality,
realist strives for peace.', 'Interpret securely,
don\'t exaggerate insecurely.', ' \”It takes real courage to stop temper short, much more than to give way to it. That\'s easy.
A dog can do that.\”
My Dear Ones, p.228', 'Knowledge teaches you
what to do,
practice tells you
how to do it.
SEL p. 118', 'Life consists
mainly of trivialities.
MYFMYA p. 49-50', 'Life\'s principal business is
to reduce both symptoms
and temper to a minimum.', 'Long range goals
over short range goals.', 'Love if you must,
hate if you must,
just don\'t make an issue of it.', 'Lower your standards
and your performance will rise.', 'Lower your standards
for outer environment.', '..make a decision, and no matter what decision you make, a decision always steadies you.
It calms you.
MYFMYA p. 5', 'Mistakes are a necessary
and desirable and wholesome part of life.
MHTWT p. 241', 'Most symptoms
are only distressing NOT
NOT dangerous.
MHTWT p.115, 119', '... motionless sitting,
gives instant relief
which at first is brief,
but then lengthens and lengthens and produces a
real sustained relief.
MYFMYA p. 288-289', 'Muscles teach the brain, and the brain, enriched by knowledge, guides the muscles.
MHTWT p. 66-67', 'Muscles can be commanded
to do what one fears to do.
SEL. p. 123', '\"My purpose in life is to make myself and those people that are close to me ... my family, my friends, my neighbors,... co-workers---to make them feel good and to make myself feel good.\" MYFMYA p. 109', 'Needs over wants', '...nervous fear
is the fear of discomfort.
MHTWT p. 146', 'Nervous persons
crave the pep talk.
(Unappreciated & misunderstood)', 'Nervous persons tend to be
extremists with regard to
their symptoms when they
are still sick and with
regard to the
practice of rules
after they have improved.
SEL, p. 4', 'Nervous persons
don\'t like change.', ' ... nervous patients are
unfortunately blessed with an
excess of irritability
and a hatred of routine.
MHTWT', '\" ...the nervous patient will not settle for anything less than a rare, incurable
or hopeless ailment.\"
MHTWT p. 81', '... the nervous patient
endeavors to eliminate
routine from life altogether.
The formula is simple:
There must be nothing
trivial, meaningless, unimportant
in the sphere
of daily existence.', 'Objectivity terminates a panic.
(Stick to the facts)
MHTWT p. 126', '\”Once you think of yourself as being a victim, you will not try to seek help from your inner environment, from yourself.\”
MYFMYA p. 49-50', 'Only compare yourself
to how you were before recovery.', 'Our feelings and thoughts
can lie to us.
MHTWT p. 111', 'Our lack of spontaneity is caused by fearful preoccupation.', 'Our mental health
is our number priority.
MHTWT p. 404', 'Our Purpose Is To Have Peace
MYFMYALecture 19 pg 110', 'Our supreme method
is self-discipline.', 'Our symptoms are largely
\"self-induced\", \"self-made\" and \"self-created\"
Selections p. 37', 'Outer approval is a want,
but inner approval
is a need.', 'Outer Environment
- everything outside your
self: places, people, events,
and the past.
Recovery Website', 'Outer approval is a want, inner approval is a need.', 'Outer environment
can be put miles away from you.', 'Outer environment
doesn\'t have maximum thrust
and we don\'t have
minimum resistance', 'Outer environment
can be rude, crude
and indifferent.
(but not necessarily
aiming at us)', 'Partnership over partisanship.
MHTWT p. 257', 'Partnership Promotes The Purpose Of The Group, Partisanship Disrupts It
MHTWT pg 257', 'Peace is the food of life,
a value and objective need
while excitement
is the spice
and thrill of life,
a desirability (not a value)
and nothing but a subjective want. MHTWT p. 200', 'Peace not perfection', 'Peace over power.
Friendship over force.', 'Peace, order and balance
are the supreme values.
MHTWT p. 199', 'Perfection is hope, dream
and an illusion', 'People do things that irritate us,
not necessarily
to irritate us.
MHTWT ch.48', 'People strive to be exceptional
and fear to be
nothing but average.
MHTWT p. 84', 'Poor habits can be
acquired in a fraction
of a second, good habits
only in long, protracted training.
MYFMYA p. 216', '\”.....practice and learning, real learning, require time. And will you please see to it that you don\'t get discouraged because you have to wait. At the end
of the waiting period,
there is the
great reward, the prize.\”
MYFMYA p 297', 'Practice reflective calm.', 'Quick relief,
even if it could be secured,
is not a lasting cure.
MHTWT p. 201', 'Raise the ceiling on the
amount of discomfort
you are willing to bear.', 'Recovery teaches you how
to conquer confused ideas
and perturbed emotions
through simplicity of thinking
and humility of feeling.
MHTWT, p. 140)', 'Recovery stands for realism,
plain common sense and
an unspoiled
way of viewing life.
MHTWT p. 65', 'Recovery stands for averageness,
humility and plainness over
exceptionality, arrogance
and self-importance.', 'Refrain From Processing Temperament Into Temper
MHTWT pg 173', 'Refuse to pamper your feelings and coddle your thoughts.
MHTWT, p.128', 'Refuse to sacrifice
inner peace for trivialities', '\" ... reject this contemporary superstition that your thoughts are forever scheming against your welfare and your feelings continually plotting
against your health.\"
MHTWT p. 140', 'Remove the danger
from a situation.', 'Replace an insecure thought
with a secure thought.
MYFMYA Lecture 1', 'Replace the
vanity of victory
with the peace of humility.', 'Resist impulses that are not good
for your mental health', 'Return of the symptom
is not the return of the illness.', 'Reviewing and Previewing
is sabotage', 'Romanticism
dies on realism.', 'Sabotage
- when we ignore
or choose not to practice
what we have
learned in RI.
Recovery Website', 'Self blame creates
self-consciousness,
self endorsement
creates self confidence.', 'Self diagnosis is a
sabotage of our
mental health.', 'Self-appointed expectations
lead to self-induced frustrations.
SEL p. 35', 'Self-Endorsement
- self-praise for any effort
to practice the RI method.
We recognize the value of
every effort we make
regardless of the result.
Recovery Website', 'Self-endorsement
leads to sure and
determined action.', '...self-importance is nothing more than a sense of personal importance ... an idle claim and silly pretense, and the best thing that can happen to it is to be hurt every once in a while. SEL p.50', 'Self-Leadership over
Foreign Management.
Avoid an over reliance
on experts or
other people\'s opinions.', 'A sense of humor
is the sovereign means
for curing nervous conditions.
MYFMYA p. 97', ' ... \"a sense of humor is such a strong antidote against fear.\"
MHTWT p. 362', '\”Sensations and feelings rise and fall provided you do not attach the idea of danger at the moment the curve reaches it\'s peak.\”
MHTWT p. 356', 'Simplicity over complexity
with regard to
nervous symptoms.
MHTWT p. 358', 'The simple method is always the superior procedure.
MYFMYA p. 76', 'Some things
happen by chance
and not by choice', 'Sometimes our
\'stepping in and taking over\'
is domination
disguised as service.', 'Speed put on an action
creates tenseness.
(especially speech)
MYFMYA p. 324', 'Stop believing your racing thoughts', 'Symptoms are distressing
but not dangerous
MHTWT p. 115,119,237', 'That sovereignty of yours is severely curtailed the moment you step out into the street. Now you are subject to rules which restrict your rights and put a check to your dispositions. MHTWT p. 57', '\" ... trivial irritations of
external environment...
can be approached either
with temper or with
a sense of humor.\"
MHTWT p. 108', 'Speed put on action
leads to tenseness, tenseness leads to symptoms.
MYFMYA p. 324', 'Spontaneity means
the courage to
make a mistake.
MHTWT p. 249', '\" ... stop blaming yourself, you will, ... whittle down ... the passion for self-distrust.\
MYFMYA p. 311', 'Spot and see if your
\"imagination is on fire.\"', 'Spot only on yourself.
Foreign spotting
tends to create temper.', 'Spot the complaining habit.', 'Spot the extremism', 'Spot the inevitable setback', 'Spot your inner wailing
and complaining too.', 'Spot your self sabotage.', 'Spot your thoughts
and command your muscles.', 'Spot, Drop
and Endorse.', 'Spotting
- identifying a disturbing
feeling, sensation, thought
or impulse, previously unseen, then applying
the right Recovery tools.
Recovery Website', '\" ...spotting means to bring into plain sight what has
been invisible or obscured\"
SEL p. 81-82', 'Stay in the
here and now.', 'Stimulating conversations
lead to irritating tenseness.', '\"Stop blaming yourself for your averageness, for your average human imperfection,
for human limitations.
MYFMYA p. 311', 'Stop listening to the threats
of the symptomatic idiom.', 'Stop seeing intent
where there is none.', 'Some symptoms are distressing
but not dangerous.
MHTWT p. 115, 119', 'Take a wait and see attitude', 'Take the total view of a situation,
not just the partial view.
MHTWT p. 208', 'Tasks take priority over pleasure', 'Temper against the illness
is sabotage.', 'Temper blocks logic
and causes confusion.', 'Temper gives us a brief high,
but we pay for it later', 'Temper has duration.
Emotions have
very little duration.
MYFMYA p. 38', 'Temper is
\"I don\'t like, I don\'t want,
this shouldn\'t be\"', 'Temper is an
intellectual blindness
to the other side
of the story.
MHTWT p. 159', 'Temper is the outcome of an inner arrogance which sets itself up as judge of who is right
and who is wrong.
MHTWT, p. 109-110', 'Temper leads to tenseness,
tenseness leads to symptoms.
MHTWT, p. 140', 'Temper maintains
and intensifies symptoms.
MHTWT p. 219', 'Temper, tenseness, symptoms', 'Temperamental
(extreme, alarmist)
lingo leads to the
defeatist babble
of the brain.', 'Tempers are frequently uncontrolled,
but not uncontrollable.
MHTWT p. 3492', 'The favorite pastime of the nervous person is self-torture', 'The best means of reducing
an idea of danger
to it\'s absurdity is
to act against it.
MHTWT p. 366-367', '\"The fact is that my patients, prior to receiving training in Recovery, have been stubbornly romantic about their symptoms and emphatically intellectual about their temper.\" MHTWT, p.79', 'The most exquisite
spot of all
is to know
that you don\'t know.', '\"...the resoluteness of
the muscles would
conquer the
defeatism of the brain.\"
MYFMYA p. 65-66', 'The realist strives for peace,
the romanto-intellectualist for
thrill and excitement.
MHTWT p. 199', 'The realist is inclined to control his feeling and thought responses; the romantic and intellectual tend to express them. MHTWT, p. 76', 'The romanticist
pampers and coddles
his or her feelings.', 'The setback
is unavoidable.
MHTWT p. 181', '\"....a setback disappears in minutes---perhaps in half an hour, but usually in minutes, frequently in seconds---if you expect it and don\'t let it alarm you.\"
MYFMYA p. 241', 'The symbolic victory
is an empty victory.', 'The total view
is the average view', 'The 3 basic fears
of the physical collapse,
mental collapse and the permanent handicap
are variations
of the danger theme.', 'The Will has one function
only: it rejects or accepts
ideas, and stops or
releases impulses.
MHTWT p. 136', 'There are 4 parts of the
total experience
- feelings, impulse,
thoughts and sensations.
Only thoughts and impulses can be controlled.', 'There is no limit
to the amount of discomfort
you can bear
as long as you are
willing to bear it.', 'There is no right or wrong
in the trivialities
of everyday life.
Just one opinion versus another.
MHTWT p. 157, 195-196', 'There is no spontaneity without relaxation and no relaxation without spontaneity.
MYFMYA p. 242', 'There is no uncontrollable
impulse, just an impulse
that is not controlled.', 'These things will happen
in daily life.', '\"They are wrong.\"
Dwell on this thought,
expand and deepen it,
and the sky is the limit
to which you may
\"work yourself up.\"
MHTWT, p. 110', 'This is an average situation, not an exceptional one', 'This is not an emergency.', 'Thoughts and impulses
can be controlled;
feelings and sensations
must run their course.
MHTWT p.388', 'It\'s only thoughts, beliefs,
that create nervous symptoms
MYFMYA p. 444', '... thoughts and muscles are made to obey the dictates of
Will and choice.
MHTWT p. 141', 'To admit one\'s limitations
is humility, to insist on
one\'s superior knowledge
is vanity.
MHTWT p. 163', 'To get out of duality,
any decision will steady us.', 'To know is to know
that you don\'t know.
SEL p. 66', 'Treat mental health
as a business
and not as a game.
MHTWT ch.25', 'Trivial situations
have trivial consequences.', 'Trivialities
- the everyday events and irritations of daily life.
Compared to our
mental health,
most events are trivial.
Recovery Website', 'Try, Fail, Try, Fail,
Succeed.', 'Unrealistic expectations
bring disappointment.', '.. wait patiently till The sensation disappears
MHTWT pg 126', 'We always have a choice;
to work a situation up
or to work it down.', 'We are a capable lot,
we are just
paralyzed by our fears.
MYFMYA, p. 60', 'We are allergic to tenseness.
MYFMYA p. 451-452', 'We are always on trial
against the inner
seat of judgment.
MHTWT, p. 250', 'We are not heroes,
angels or saints.', 'We are not responsible
for the flair (temper),
but we are responsible
for working it down.', 'We are good observers
but poor interpreters.', 'We are not responsible
for the initial flare
but we are responsible
for working it down.', 'We are to
avoid the extremes
and seek the
firm middle ground.', '...control of our internal
environment is infinitely
more important than all
the possible triumphs
we may be able to score
over external environment.
MYFMYA - p. 110', 'We can control
our speech muscles.', 'We can express ourselves
with culture
instead of raw nature.
MYFMYA p,189-195, 355-356', 'We cannot control or dominate outer environment,
we can only hope
to favorable influence it.', 'We crave the quick fix.
We must cultivate patience.', 'We don\'t fear situations,
but the symptoms
they produce.
- MHTWT p. 360', 'We drop the temper against outer environment, when we realize that we are its casualty', 'We insist on
convincing we are right
when we believe we are wrong', 'We need to develop self
discipline. We crave a
sympathetic ear.
We want to be explored, analyzed, discussed and probed.
- MHTWT p. 24', 'We feel better in proportion
to the amount of discomfort
we are willing to bear.', 'We get better
by the sabotage pointed out to us.', 'We get well in proportion to the amount of discomfort we are willing to bear.', 'We have the tendency
to turn a
picnic into a panic.
SEL p. 52', 'We have the unrealistic
expectation that life should
be eternal calm,
unbroken serenity,
an existence without irritation.', 'We learn the method by repetition.', 'We need to chip away
at the strong links.', 'We need to drop
our passion for prevention
and the mania for exaggeration.', 'We suffer from
high suggestibility,
where the first thought that
is accepted is one of insecurity.', 'We suffer from seriousness.', 'We tend to interpret
and draw damaging conclusions.', 'We think exceptional things
are happening to us.
Our experiences are of
an average, everyday quality.', 'We want to be exceptional,
but fear we
aren\'t even average.', 'We work ourselves up
in devious ways', 'We work ourselves up with
fear, anger, attention
getting and self pity.', 'Wear the mask. You’re not transparent.
MHTWT p. 187-190. 322', 'Sabotage
- When we do not
do what is best
for our mental health.
Recovery Website', 'When we endorse ourselves
we become self confident,
when we blame ourselves
we feel self conscious.', 'When we express ourselves
in temper we end up
with self disgust', 'When we feel happy
we think we will
always be happy,
when we feel sad we think
we will always be sad.
Life is phasic.
(always changing)', 'When we seek
vanity and victory
we end up with
humiliation and defeat.', 'Whether you are
right or wrong
is immaterial.
Temper is a matter of breeding,
not of right and wrong.
Rec. Rep., Vol 63, No 2', 'When you are endorsing yourself you can\'t be blaming yourself', '"Whether your Self
bores or interests you
depends on the
view you take of it. \"
(Take the Total View)
MHTWT, p. 209', 'Stop dragging
your past around with you.
MYFMYA p. 16', 'Why trust an imagination
that\'s lied to me
so many times in the past.', 'Will to effort
over the will to fear.', '\"The Will has one function only: it rejects or accepts ideas, and stops
or releases impulses.\"
MHTWT p. 136', 'Without decisions, plans, action and initiative, there is no possibility of developing pride, self-reliance and self sufficiency."
- MHTWT, p. 42', 'Without full acceptance of the goal there can be no thorough aiming.', 'With reference to his/her
symptoms a nervous
person must be genuine in feeling
and sincere in thought.
MHTWT p. 189', 'You are an apprentice,
not a master.
MYFMYA p. 60', 'You are not responsible
for what you did
before recovery.
(Before you had these tools)', 'You are not responsible
for the initial flare,
but you are responsible
for working it down.', 'You can remove yourself
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