Practise challenging #feelings.How?
Say:
“Hang on a minute!”
Feelings are real but feelings aren’t #facts. Seek evidence to challengewhat may well be negative, automatic assumptions.
What are your assumptions?
July 10, 2015
Practise challenging feelings
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January 16, 2015
What did you participate in today and for how long?
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What did you participate in #today and for how long?
January 5, 2015
Feelings will fade
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“Feelings will come and #feelings will #fade if we allow them to do so. How? Give your #attention to something else.” S Long
November 27, 2014
Triggers
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All of us have #triggers to unwanted #behaviours. Don’t allow yourself or others to pull them.
November 25, 2014
Agreeing with Negative Automatic thoughts? Here’s what to do.
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All too often we agree with negative automatic thoughts on face value. Don’t. Challenge their #assumptions with evidence.
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November 24, 2014
What’s your view?
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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” – Epictetus (Ancient Greece)
What’s your view?
November 21, 2014
You have a choice. You always do.
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You have a #choice in life. You always do. You can #accept the things that happen and move on or don’t accept and remain stuck. Accept doesn’t mean agree with.
Francis of Assisi
November 20, 2014
Fighting the feelings is futile
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Fighting the #feelings is futile. #Accept them; #remain there; let them #fade. They will if you don’t fight them.
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November 18, 2014
Emotional Brain or Thinking Brain?
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The #Thinking #Brain deals in #facts & #evidence. The #Emotional Brain deals with #emotions & #feelings. Which #brain are you using in the situation you’re facing?
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