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101 Recovery Spots from Dr. Abraham A. Low - great mental health tips.
- "I can not" means "I care not".
- All I know is that I don't know.
- Angry temper is temper turned outward toward another.
- Anticipation of an event is usually worse than the realization of that event.
- Approval of others is a want, not a need.
- Avoid self importance. Others don't sit around and think about what I did or said.
- Be group minded.
- Be self led, not symptom lead.
- Calm begets calm, temper begets temper.
- Change your thoughts and impulses and your feeling and sensations will follow suit.
- Choose peace over power. Don't go for the "symbolic victory"! (See, I told you so.)
- Choose to hope rather than "gloom, doom and despair."
- Comfort is a want, not a need.
- Comparison temper is a form of fear temper.
- Decide, plan and act.
- Discomfort can be patiently borne, bravely faced and humbly tolerated.
- Don't blame, complain or explain.
- Don't give outer expression to my inner envirornment when temper is involved.
- Don't let the trivialities of everyday life work me up.
- Don't take your own dear selves too seriously.
- Drop the danger, diagnosing and judgement.
- Drop the excessive need to control outer environment.
- Drop the judgement on others and myself.
- Drop the need to be exceptional.
- Drop the use of tempermental lingo.
- Drop the vanity of always knowing better and best.
- ENDORSE for the effort, not the outcome.
- Endorse like an ever flowing river...
- Every measure of self control, brings a measure of self respect.
- Everyday is full of frustration and disappointment. That's average.
- Everyone is entitled to their initial flare, (reaction). Like when a dog jumps out of a bush.
- Excuse yourself and others, don't accuse.
- Failure to practice spotting is Sabatoge and so is failure to practice muscle control.
- Fear is a belief and beliefs can be changed.
- Fearful temper is temper turned inward, toward ourselves: self disgust, embarrasment...
- Feelings are NOT facts.
- Feelings call for expression, temper for suppression.
- Feelings rise and feelings fall.
- Feelings should be expressed and temper suppressed.
- Focus on what you Can do, Do have and Do know, not the opposite.
- Get out of duality. A firm decision will steady you.
- Go about my mental health with a strong aim, not a lose wish.
- Have I endorsed today?
- Have the courage to be wrong in the trivialities of everyday life.
- Have the courage to make a mistake.
- Have the will to "humility".
- Helplessness is not hopelessness. There is no hopeless case.
- Humor is our best friend, temper our worst enemy.
- I can act my way into right thinking. (Action produces motivation.)
- I can always share my feelings with an understanding party, without using "tempermental lingo".
- I can bear discomfort and do hard things.
- I can command my muscles to move.
- I can control my speech muscles.
- I can do the things I fear and hate to do.
- I can do things in part acts, (baby steps) and then endorse for each act.
- I can feel guilty without being guilty.
- I can move my muscles as needed. Then endorse.
- I cannot control outer environment, only my inner environment.
- I don't need to be a saint, hero or angel.
- I have choices. (agency)
- If you can't change an event, change your attitude towards it.
- Interpret securely, don't exaggerate insecurely.
- It's okay to be average.
- Lower your expections and your performance will rise.
- Mistakes are a healthy and valuable part of life.
- Most symptoms are NOT dangerous, only distressing.
- Nervous people have a passion for self distrust.
- NEVER INDICT, ONLY ENDORSE!
- Objectivity terminates panic.
- Our feelings and thoughts can lie to us.
- Our self worth does not depend on our performance.
- Outer environment can be rude, crude and indifferent.
- Peace from outer environment is temporary and isn't really peace.
- People do things that annoy us, not to annoy us.
- Refuse to sacrifice inner peace for trivialities.
- Reject bad thoughts!
- Remember, peace over power.
- Remove the danger from a situation.
- Replace an insecure thought with a secure thought.
- Resist impulses that are not good for your mental health.
- Secure your racing thoughts.
- Some things happen by chance and not by choice.
- Spot and see if your "imagination is on fire."
- Stop, Drop (the danger) and Spot
- Take a "ho-hum" attitude toward a distressing task or symptoms.
- Take the total view of a situation, not just the partial view.
- Temper blocks logic.
- Temper is a luxury I can't afford.
- Temper is the intellectual blindness to the other side of the story.
- There is no right or wrong in trivial matters.
- Thoughts produce symptoms & thoughts let them go.
- To be simple is to be great.
- Treat your mental health like a business, not a game.
- Trust in your own validity.
- Unrealistic expectations bring disappointment.
- We feel better in proportion to the amount of discomfort we are willing to bear.
- We want to be exceptional, but fear we aren't even average.
- Wear the mask.
- When we express ourselves in temper we end up with self disgust.