What Does God Say?
I received the nice note below as an inspirational message… Good morning Matt. This is God. I will be handling all your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a good day. Well, I disagree. God will handle all my BIG problems. But I have to handle my worldly problems. I am [...]
Control
things we have way much control over: Personal Power Enthusiasm Enlightenment Awareness Acceptance Understanding—– Faith Trust Love Joy—– Our Belief systems Our Issues Our Values Our Outlook on Life Our View of the World—– Our Ability to Connect Our Ability to Belong Our Ability to work as a Team Our Ability to Get Along—– Our [...]
Thoughts on Forgiveness
Forgiveness is for you. You carry the pain, and the anger, and the resentment. You keep the grudge going. You are the one with the nasty thoughts. So forgiveness is for you. They may never know you forgave them (sadly, they may not even know you are angry at them). Forgiveness is about removing the [...]
Thoughts on Control / Being Controlled
notes to myself over the last ND weekend: Shoulds are sources of Anger Control: Do it or change it Positive Control – "You will…"Negative Control – "You can’t make me…"Whenever you have to PROVE that they can’t control you, you’re not in control, they are!Healthy Response – "Here’s what I’m willing to do…" The only [...]
How much Control do we have?
Chances are, you have waaay more Choices over our emotional lives than we’ve ever imagined possible! Once you know and appreciate all the internal issues we can control inside us, and how, and how much, it gives us TOTAL power over our Reactions, our beliefs and our behaviors. How we connect How we relate How [...]
Feeling Cocky
It seems that whenever I start to feel COCKY, I get slammed somehow. it’s very strange, but it’s happened a lot of times. – – – Personally proud, and responsible and powerful – – those are all fine. but if I get to feeling actually Cocky — where I think I’m really special in one [...]
GET CONTROL!
Control Your Feelings, Control Your LIFE!
Controlling your Heart
Wouldn’t you love to have control over your Heart? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to Choose who you love, and how much, and when? Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to Open up when it’s safe and feels good, and to Close up when things aren’t going well? What an amazing skill, to be able [...]
Being “In Touch”
Benefits of being “in touch” with your feelings – know who you are – understand why you do what you do – understand people better – connect with people better – get along better at work – enjoy life more – more in love – more in touch – more power – more joy – [...]
We DO Have Choices about our Feelings!
I believe that one of the biggest, and most influential changes I have seen people make is this… We CAN control our Feelings and Emotions! I believe that most people have a belief that their Feelings and Emotions are some squishy, ungraspable thing that we just learn to live with. They come and go as [...]
Control your Feelings, Control your Life.
Control your Feelings, Control your Life! The key is to learn about your FEELINGS “If you know what you feel, you’ll know who you are!” – Doc Downing, PhD, MSW, LMFT We teach a intensive weekend workshop called New Directions… been teaching it now for over 17 years. 4 states, hundreds of classes, thousands of [...]
“If it’s to be, it’s up to me.”
- Lament of those stuck in control, unable to obtain cooperation. However, it’s also TRUE. It’s called Personal Responsibility… and it really works! The happiest people I know are those who feel they have the power to make a difference in EVERY area of their lives. Not unrealistic, unachievable control, but the power to make [...]
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