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BECOMING A MASTER OF MISERY - GETTING YOUR BLACK BELT IN NEGATIVE THINKING

For every fact of life, there are dozens of different feelings that you can attach to them.

Depressed people skillfully ignore the facts; they skip over them and go straight to their feelings.  Once they totally immerse themselves in their feelings, they makeup "facts" that are consistent with those feelings.  For all practical purposes, they think backward.

In order to achieve a deep and unremitting state of depression, you must master all the techniques of backward thinking.  You learn how to push your mind in a negative direction, twist your thoughts, and distort your emotions.  You become a Master of Misery and wear your black belt of depression wherever you go.  Whenever you have a positive thought, you quickly bring it into submission and dismiss it from your mind.  You take the facts of life and bend them to your negative will.  You pulverize the positive possibilities that could turn your life around.  There is no limit to how miserable your life can become when you let backward thinking take control.  You may even decide to take up permanent residence in the Land of Depression

BACKWARD THINKING IS A TRIP TO FANTASY LAND

Thinking backward is a trip to Fantasy Land that takes you down a street called Despair, reserves a room for you at Heartbreak Hotel, and takes you on a tour of the Pit of Depression.

Backward thinking is dangerous because you create a make believe world that exists only in your mind.  Although your physical body remains in the real world, your heart and mind are off in a world of their own.  You live in a parallel universe in which distorted emotions rule.

People with mood disorders ride the roller coaster of negative and twisted emotion until they become sick.  Once they climb on board, they don't know how to get off.  They go for a wild ride that progressively becomes worse, and there is no limit to how bad their life can become.

If you want to escape from the Land of Depression, you must break the Laws of Backward Thinking.  You must learn to ignore the feelings of life and focus on the facts.  Once you get your facts straight, your feelings come right.  You rejoin the real world and escape from the tyranny of twisted emotions that have been ruining your life.

BACKWARD THINKING - AN ILLUSION CREATED BY A DEPRESSED MIND

Backward thinking doesn't really exist; it's an illusion created by a depressed mind.

There is a fundamental problem in the way depressed people run their mind.  They believe that backward thinking actually exists, when in fact, backward thinking is a figment of their imagination.  It's a compelling illusion that controls their life.

The truth is they are not thinking backward.  Although it appears like they are thinking backward, what is really happening is they are ignoring the thoughts that cause their emotions, and instead, focusing only on their emotions.  They have a massive perceptual problem; they can't see the depressing and twisted thoughts that started the problem in the first place.  How does this happen?

It's really quite simple.  When you have a negative thought, the amount of time it takes for your mind to generate a negative emotion consistent with that thought can be measured in fractions of a second - nanoseconds.  The time between the thought and the emotion is so quick that most people can't separate the thought from the emotion.  When the emotion pops into their mind, the thought that caused it disappears before they even notice it was there.

That's one reason why people have believed for years that depression was a problem with their emotions rather than a problem with the way they think.  Twisted thinking creates twisted emotions.  Unfortunately, twisted thoughts fly by at the speed of light, and people only notice the emotions left behind in their wake.  Therefore, therapists and patients focused primarily on emotions and acted as if backward thinking actually existed.

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ZERO TOLERANCE TO NEGATIVE THINKING
David J. Abbott M.D.

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Good-bye Depression   Hello Positive Mind

Taking Back Control of Your Mind

The Land of Depression

The Laws of the Land of Depression

The First Law of Backward Thinking

Getting Your Black Belt in Negative Thinking

Backward Thinking Is a Trip to Fantasy Land

An Illusion Created by a Depressed Mind

Emotions Shout Down Your Rational Mind

The Second Law of Backward Thinking

The Feelings of Life Do Not Reflect the Facts of Life

The Third Law of Backward Thinking

Don't Strap Yourself into the Electric Chair of Depression

Escaping From the Land of Depression

Eight Steps to Eradicate Depression

Overcoming Depression and Advancing to the Next Level

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Am I Ok After All?

Your Mental Mirrors - Inherited Mirrors of the Mind

Surviving your Personal House of Mirrors

Putting a Name on the Mirrors of Your Mind

Mirror One: All or Nothing Thinking

Mirror Two: Overgeneralization

Mirror Three: Mental Filter

Mirror Four: Disqualifying the Positive

Mirror Five: Jumping to Conclusions

Mirror Six: Magnification and Minimization

Mirror Seven: Emotional Reasoning

Mirror Eight: Should Statements

Mirror Nine: Labeling and Mislabeling

Mirror Ten: Personalization

God's Mirror - The Answer to All Cognitive Distortions

Mental Slippage - Loss of Command and Control

Mental Slippage - What's Happening

Mental Slippage - Control of Your Thoughts

Should You Use Medication to Treat Depression?

Mental Slippage - Content of Your Thoughts

How to Create a Positive Brain

Positive and Negative Brains

Positive Thinking Creates a Positive Brain

The Rest of the Story - Becoming Positive

Change Your Thoughts and Change Your Chemistry

A Word of Caution for People with Clinical Depression

Back to the Basics of Healthy Thinking

Positive Operating System

The Mathematics of Personal Change

Problems With a Negative Operating System

Characteristics of a Positive Operating System (POS)

A POS Has a Positive Focus

A POS Turns Bad Things into Better Things

A POS Looks for the Good in Everyone

A POS Looks for the Good in Everything that Happens

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Decision Time - A Positive or Negative Operating System?

How to Install a Positive Operating System

Real Power

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You Are a Creature of Emotion

Renewing Your Rational Mind Is Not Enough

Renewing Your Emotional Mind Requires Healing

God's Love Changes Who You Are

How Your Mind Was Designed

Dabbling in God's Love Isn't Enough

God's Master Plan of Love

God's Pipeline of Love

God's Love - The Definitive Cure for Depression

Eradicating Depression - Realize You Have a Problem

Negative Thinking and Fatigue

Negative Thinking and the Overloaded State

Habitually Negative State

Mild to Moderate Mood Disorders

Clinical Depression

Dealing With a Negative State of Mind

Reestablishing Command and Control

Battle Against Depression Fought on the Battlefield of Focus

The Power of Positive Focus

How to Create and Maintain a Persistently Positive Focus

The First Law of Focus - What You Think About Expands

How to Create a Persistently Positive Focus

The Second Law of Focus

The Third Law of Focus

The Fourth Law of Focus

The Fifth Law of Focus

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Accidents Happen But Cognitive Distortions Are Optional

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The Big Eight - Think on These Things

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The Dastardly Deed - How Toxic Waste Ruins Your Life

Toxic Waste Detector - The Big Eight

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What You Talk About Expands

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What You Read About Expands

What You Look at Expands

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Five Simple Steps to a Positive Life

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Never Attack and Argue with Negative Thoughts

It's Better to Switch Than to Fight

Negative Thoughts Cannot Survive in a Heart Full of Love

The Mega-Affirmation

Repeat These Steps to Win the Battle Against Depression

Everything You Wanted to Know About Negative Thinking

Negativity Destroys Opportunity

Negativity Blinds You to Possibility

Negativity Is the Black Hole of the Mind

Negativity Is the Most Powerful Thought Magnet

Negativity Can Overtake You Anywhere and Anytime

Negativity Creates Powerful Destructive Neuroassociations

Negativity Creates Inertia in Your Personal Life

Negativity Creates a Mentality of Limitations

Negativity Has the Wrong Focus

Negativity Creates a Distorted Interpretations of Reality

Negativity Is Easier Than Being Positive

Only Embrace Risk in a Positive State of Mind

The Way Out Is Different Than the Way In

Conflict Brings Negative Thoughts into Your Life

Your Need to Be Right is the Formula for Perpetual Conflict

Conflict Is a False Model for Solving Problems

Dealing With Conflict - Loving and Letting Go

Escaping From Perfection - The Great Pretender

Perfection Pretends to Be Your Friend

Perfections Sells a Perfect Life But Delivers a Miserable One

Perfection Steals Dreams

Don't Let Perfection Take Over Your Personality

Perfect Is the Enemy of Good

Escape the Web of Spiritual Perfection

Perfection Has the Wrong Focus

Life Is Still Terrific Even When It's Not Perfect

Guilt - Hazardous Substance - Handle With Care

Test Guilt With a Watch and Calculator

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How to Eradicate Guilt

Zero Tolerance to Negative Thinking

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Learn the Lesson that Each Negative Thought Has to Teach

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Keeping Adversity in Perspective

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Assess the Situation

Marshall Your Resources

Plan Your Counterattack

Take Enthusiastic, Positive, and Fearless Action

Never Quit

Negative Thought Alert You That Something Is Wrong

Negative Thoughts Are a Stop Sign

Negative Thoughts Point in the Direction of the Problem

Negative Thoughts Provide Valuable Feedback

Motivational Value of Negative Thoughts

Positive Action Is the Appropriate Response to Negation

The Natural History of Negative Thoughts

Stop Negativity at the Door of Your Mind

Beating the Odds

When You Think Positive, Your Life Starts to Improve

Positive Thinking Makes a Difference

Do Not Ruin Your Life With Negative Thinking

Turn Bad Things into Better Things

Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

Life Is Full of Opportunities to Make Bad Things Better

The Challenge

Affirmations for the Inner Skeptic

Affirmations Overwhelm Your Emotional Mind

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The Wheel of Change

Instant Positive Thinking - Positive Neuroassociations

Positive Affirmations for Positive Power

What to Say When You Talk to Your Mind

The Supreme Law of Change

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