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RENEWING THE RATIONAL MIND IS NOT ENOUGH
Renewing my patient's emotional mind with insight wasn't
enough. I was trying to cure emotional problems by
treating their rational mind. It's not surprising my
treatments were relatively ineffective. I was aiming at
the wrong target using a gun that was firing blanks. I
needed to aim at their emotional mind with a weapon that had
real power. I needed the power of God's love.
Although people believe they make their
decisions on a rational basis, the truth is that emotions
dominate their life. In a tug of war between reason and
emotion, your emotions almost always win. It's an unfair
contest with the outcome rigged in favor of emotions; the
rational mind doesn't stand a chance. It's almost as if
your emotional mind is taking anabolic steroids and is
unstoppable. For your entire life you have been pumping
emotional iron, and your emotional muscles are so powerful they
bully your rational mind and push it wherever they want it to
go. Your emotions end up controlling your life.
Negative and depressing thoughts
packed full of emotion climb into the driver's seat and take you
wherever they want. The message is clear. When your
emotions are out of control, your rational mind will go for a
rough ride until the storm of emotion subsides. Logic is
powerless in the face of unrestrained emotion. Your
rational mind watches disaster getting ready to happen and is
powerless to stop it, because the emotional mind is deaf to the
voice of reason.
Even courts recognize that we are
creatures of emotion. When people lose control of their
emotions and in a fit of passion commit murder, the courts
charge these people with second degree murder because it wasn't
premeditated. First degree murder is reserved for those
who plan and carry out their crime in a calculated, cold-blooded
fashion.
In the battle between facts (reason) and
emotions, emotion is the unequivocal winner. Emotion
keeps conflicts going for hundreds of years. If you ask
people why they are fighting against another ethnic group, they
will tell you the reason is obvious. They point to a
previous injustice or war that happened five-hundred years ago.
They believe they are totally rational when they say it makes
sense to fight about something that happened hundreds of years
ago. When you hear these people talk, you aren't listening
to the voice of reason. You are listening to the voice of
emotion explain why hate and conflict are the proper responses
to the injustices of the past. For most people, renewing
the emotional mind is nearly impossible. That's why
conflicts in the Middle East continue without end in sight.
One of your highest priorities must be to
tame your emotional mind and push it in a positive direction.
Until you do that, you will not be in control of your life.
The power of emotion will dominate your life until it meets the
most powerful force in the universe, God's love.
RENEWING THE EMOTIONAL MIND IS HARD BECAUSE IT REQUIRES
HEALING
Renewing your rational mind is relatively easy. You
spend the first twenty years of your life learning how to do it.
Public education put enough material in your rational mind to
last ten lifetimes. Unfortunately, no one taught you how
to renew your emotional mind. No one told you that
God's love is the most powerful force in the universe, and that
God's love can heal damaged emotions.
Renewing the emotional mind is hard because
it requires healing. Education isn't enough.
Chemical dependencies and damaged emotions will never be healed
by taking a class at a university, or by talking to a counselor
who tells you all of the reasons why things will be fine once
you get everything straightened out in your mind. They can
spend years educating your rational mind, and you will still
struggle with your chemical dependencies because your damaged
emotions have not been healed. If you want to treat the
emotional mind, you need the power of God's love, because it's
the definitive cure for damaged emotions.
Only renewal of the emotional mind will
solve the difficult problems of life. God is a specialist
at renewing your emotional mind through the power of his love.
He can heal your emotional wounds, remove your emotional scars,
and wash away your guilt. Although his love will not
change the bad things that happened to you in the past, it will
erase their power. His love will not only point you in the
right direction, it will also give you the power to make the
trip.
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ZERO TOLERANCE TO NEGATIVE THINKING
David J. Abbott M.D.
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Good-bye Depression Hello Positive
Mind |
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Taking Back Control of Your
Mind |
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The Land of Depression |
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The Laws of the Land of
Depression |
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The First Law of Backward
Thinking |
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Getting Your Black Belt in Negative
Thinking |
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Backward Thinking Is a Trip to
Fantasy Land |
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An Illusion Created by a Depressed
Mind |
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Emotions Shout Down Your
Rational Mind |
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The Second Law of Backward
Thinking |
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The Feelings of Life Do Not
Reflect the Facts of Life |
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The Third Law of Backward
Thinking |
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Don't Strap Yourself
into the Electric Chair of Depression |
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Escaping From the
Land of Depression |
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Eight Steps to Eradicate
Depression |
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Overcoming Depression
and Advancing to the Next Level |
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Mirror Mirror on the
Wall, Am I Ok After All? |
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Your Mental Mirrors -
Inherited Mirrors of the Mind |
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Surviving your Personal
House of Mirrors |
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Putting a Name on the
Mirrors of Your Mind |
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Mirror One: All or Nothing
Thinking |
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Mirror Two: Overgeneralization |
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Mirror Three: Mental Filter |
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Mirror Four: Disqualifying the Positive |
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Mirror Five: Jumping to
Conclusions |
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Mirror Six: Magnification and
Minimization |
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Mirror Seven: Emotional Reasoning |
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Mirror Eight: Should Statements |
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Mirror Nine: Labeling and
Mislabeling |
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Mirror Ten: Personalization |
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God's Mirror - The Answer to All Cognitive
Distortions |
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Mental Slippage - Loss of Command and
Control |
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Mental Slippage - What's Happening |
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Mental Slippage - Control
of Your Thoughts |
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Should You Use Medication
to Treat Depression? |
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Mental Slippage - Content of Your
Thoughts |
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How to Create a Positive Brain |
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Positive and Negative
Brains |
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Positive Thinking Creates a Positive Brain |
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The Rest of the Story -
Becoming Positive |
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Change Your Thoughts and
Change Your Chemistry |
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A Word of Caution for
People with Clinical Depression |
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Back to the Basics of
Healthy Thinking |
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Positive Operating System |
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The Mathematics of
Personal Change |
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Problems With a
Negative Operating System |
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Characteristics of a Positive Operating System (POS) |
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A POS Has a Positive Focus |
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A POS Turns Bad Things into Better Things |
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A POS Looks for the Good in Everyone |
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A POS Looks for the Good in Everything that Happens |
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A POS Has Positive Expectations |
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A POS Is
Positively Congruent |
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A POS
Manifests a Positive Spirituality Based on Love |
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A POS Has a
Positive Self-Image |
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A POS Has
Positive Self-Esteem |
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A POS Gives
You Real Power |
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A POS Takes
You to a Positive Destination |
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Characteristics of a
Negative Operating System |
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Decision Time - A Positive or Negative Operating System? |
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How
to Install a Positive Operating System |
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Real
Power |
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Be
Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind |
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You
Are a Creature of Emotion |
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Renewing Your
Rational Mind Is Not Enough |
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Renewing Your
Emotional Mind Requires Healing |
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God's Love
Changes Who You Are |
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How Your Mind
Was Designed |
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Dabbling in God's Love
Isn't Enough |
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God's Master Plan of
Love |
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God's Pipeline of Love |
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God's
Love - The Definitive Cure for Depression |
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Eradicating Depression
- Realize You Have a Problem |
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Negative Thinking and
Fatigue |
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Negative Thinking and the
Overloaded State |
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Habitually Negative State |
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Mild to Moderate
Mood Disorders |
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Clinical Depression |
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Dealing With a
Negative State of Mind |
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Reestablishing
Command and Control |
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Battle Against
Depression Fought on the Battlefield of Focus |
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The Power of
Positive Focus |
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How to Create and
Maintain a Persistently Positive Focus |
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The First Law of
Focus - What You Think About Expands |
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How to
Create a Persistently Positive Focus |
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The Second Law of Focus |
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The Third Law of Focus |
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The Fourth Law of Focus |
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The Fifth Law of Focus |
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Recognize Your Cognitive
Distortions |
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Accidents
Happen But Cognitive Distortions Are Optional |
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Reject Your
Cognitive Distortions |
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You Beat
Depression Thought by Thought |
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Renew Your
Mind |
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The Big Eight - Think on
These Things |
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Mental Toxic Waste |
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The Voice of Depression Is Full
of Toxic Waste |
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The Dastardly Deed -
How Toxic Waste Ruins Your Life |
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Toxic Waste Detector - The Big
Eight |
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Reprogram Your Mind With a
Positive Operating System |
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What You Talk About
Expands |
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What You Write
About Expands |
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What You Read About
Expands |
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What You Look at
Expands |
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What You Listen to
Expands |
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Five Simple Steps to
a Positive Life |
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Shift Your Focus to the
Most Positive Force in the Universe |
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Never Attack and Argue
with Negative Thoughts |
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It's Better to
Switch Than to Fight |
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Negative Thoughts
Cannot Survive in a Heart Full of Love |
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The Mega-Affirmation |
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Repeat These
Steps to Win the Battle Against Depression |
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Everything
You Wanted to Know About Negative Thinking |
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Negativity Destroys
Opportunity |
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Negativity
Blinds You to Possibility |
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Negativity
Is the Black Hole of the Mind |
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Negativity Is the Most
Powerful Thought Magnet |
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Negativity Can
Overtake You Anywhere and Anytime |
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Negativity Creates Powerful
Destructive Neuroassociations |
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Negativity Creates Inertia
in Your Personal Life |
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Negativity Creates a
Mentality of Limitations |
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Negativity Has
the Wrong Focus |
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Negativity Creates a Distorted Interpretations of Reality |
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Negativity Is Easier Than Being Positive |
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Only
Embrace Risk in a Positive State of Mind |
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The Way
Out Is Different Than the Way In |
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Conflict Brings Negative Thoughts into Your Life |
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Your Need to Be Right is the Formula for Perpetual Conflict |
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Conflict Is a False Model for Solving Problems |
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Dealing With Conflict -
Loving and Letting Go |
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Escaping From Perfection -
The Great Pretender |
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Perfection Pretends to Be
Your Friend |
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Perfections Sells a Perfect
Life But Delivers a Miserable One |
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Perfection Steals Dreams |
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Don't Let
Perfection Take Over Your Personality |
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Perfect Is the
Enemy of Good |
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Escape the Web of
Spiritual Perfection |
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Perfection Has
the Wrong Focus |
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Life Is Still
Terrific Even When It's Not Perfect |
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Guilt - Hazardous
Substance - Handle With Care |
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Test Guilt With a Watch and
Calculator |
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Jesus Did Not Pile on Guilt |
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How to Eradicate Guilt |
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Zero
Tolerance to Negative Thinking |
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Every
Negative Thought Contains an Important Lesson |
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You
Cannot Think Just One Negative Thought |
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Learn
the Lesson that Each Negative Thought Has to Teach |
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Take Positive Action Based on
What You Learned |
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Displace Negativity with
Positive Thoughts |
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Push Your Mind in a Positive
Direction With Power Graphics |
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Sastrugi Happens |
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Keeping Adversity
in Perspective |
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Never Panic |
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Make a Limited
and Orderly Retreat |
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Sacrifice Only the Unimportant and Expendable |
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Assess
the Situation |
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Marshall Your Resources |
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Plan Your Counterattack |
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Take Enthusiastic, Positive, and Fearless
Action |
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Never Quit |
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Negative Thought Alert You That
Something Is Wrong |
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Negative Thoughts Are a Stop Sign |
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Negative Thoughts Point in
the Direction of the Problem |
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Negative Thoughts Provide
Valuable Feedback |
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Motivational
Value of Negative Thoughts |
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Positive Action
Is the Appropriate Response to Negation |
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The Natural History
of Negative Thoughts |
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Stop Negativity at
the Door of Your Mind |
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Beating the Odds |
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When You Think Positive, Your Life
Starts to Improve |
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Positive
Thinking Makes a Difference |
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Do Not Ruin
Your Life With Negative Thinking |
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Turn Bad
Things into Better Things |
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Snatching
Victory from the Jaws of Defeat |
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Life Is
Full of Opportunities to Make Bad Things Better |
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The Challenge |
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Affirmations for the Inner Skeptic |
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Affirmations Overwhelm Your Emotional Mind |
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Affirmations Are About Where You Are Going |
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The Wheel of Change |
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Instant
Positive Thinking - Positive Neuroassociations |
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Positive Affirmations for
Positive Power |
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What to Say
When You Talk to Your Mind |
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The Supreme Law
of Change |
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The Law of
Positive Self-Talk |
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Two Inner
Voices |
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The First Inner Voice
- Your Mind Talking to You |
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The Second
Inner Voice - You Talking to Your Mind |
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Powerful
Self-Talk Comes 90% from the Heart |
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It Takes Time
to Get Used to Your New Self-Talk |
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Maximum
Strength Positive Thinking |
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Strong Arm Your
Mind |
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