Quotes About Perspective

Bu dünyan?n olaylar?, sizi öfkelendirmiyor. S?cak düÅŸünceleriniz öfkelendiriyor. Gerçekten olumsuz bir olay olduÄŸunda bile duygusal tepkinizi belirleyen ona yüklediÄŸiniz anlamd?r.

I suspect you will find that a great many of your negative feelings are in fact based on such thinking errors.

You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.

What are some benefits, or advantages, of this negative thought or feeling? How might it be helping you and your baby?

What does this negative thought or feeling show about you and your core values that's positive and awesome?

Your orbit is certainly big and fancy in comparison with mine. But I don't understand how that makes you a better person than I am, or how it follows that I'm inferior to you.

Should statements based on the premise you are all-powerful assume that, like God, you are omnipotent and have the ability to control yourself and other people so as to achieve each and every goal. You

Your moody thoughts are likely to be entirely different from those you have when you are not upset.

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

I told Marilyn that God told me, "David, if you believe in me, I'm going to be deeply disappointed." I replied, "Don't worry, big guy, I've got your back!

Mind Reading. You jump to conclusions about how others are thinking and feeling without any clear evidence.

Magnification and Minimization. You exaggerate the negativity in a situation and minimize the positives. I call this the "binocular trick" since magnifying is like looking through a pair of binoculars (which makes everything much bigger), and minimizing is like looking through the opposite end (which makes everything much smaller).

Other-Blame.You blame others and overlook ways you might have contributed to the conflict.

The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your "cognitions," or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things—your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment

For example, in answer to "I never do anything right," you could write, "Forget that! I do some things right and some wrong, just like everyone else. I fouled up on my appointment, but let's not blow this up out of proportion.

Don't be afraid to ask other people how they would answer an upsetting thought if you can't figure out the appropriate rational response on your own.

That is what cognitive distortions are: a highly misleading way of thinking about yourself and the world.

Learn to find humor in the unending emotional drama the feminine seems to enjoy so much.

Life doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

Either you are living as love or you are lost in the drama of your own story to one degree or another.

However, if you find her behavior or mood is merely distasteful or a hassle, realize that she will always seem this way: The feminine always seems chaotic and complicated from the perspective of the masculine.

People like to think that their convenience is important. Daniel had found that as a general rule the universe didn't agree, and that other human beings tended to be a subset of 'the universe' in this regard.

It's only a story, isn't it?... Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?