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ZERO TOLERANCE TO NEGATIVE THINKING |
STRONG ARM YOUR MIND
There’s a lot of push and shove
going on in mood disorders, and you’re the one who’s getting
pushed around. Too often, your inner voice beats you up and
forces you into a corner. And after it knocks you down, it
doesn’t stop the assault. It just keeps pummeling you with more
negative and depressing thoughts. That’s why I told you in the
preface beating depression is a dog fight, but it’s also a fight
you can win.
If you are going to break the
back of negative thinking and chase depression out of your mind,
you must do some pushing and shoving of your own. You will have
to pump some mental iron, and deliver a knock out punch to all
the depressing thoughts that have been giving you such a hard
time. You are going to have to strong arm your mind.
What do I mean when I say,
“Strong Arm Your Mind?”
It’s really quite simple.
Instead of just sitting there taking mental abuse, you are going
to strike back and give your mind a push in a positive
direction. Instead of your negative thoughts pushing you
around, you are going to start pushing back, and there are
dozens of ways you can do it.
Although you may feel like you
have puny mental muscles, the truth is you are stronger than you
think. In addition, God is on your side, and He will give you
all the power you need to win this battle if you are willing to
take the fight to the enemy.
We have covered many different
techniques for strong arming your mind in Zero Tolerance To
Negative Thinking. In this final chapter, I have a “do
list” that shows you how to strong arm your mind. When negative
and depressing thoughts start their game of push and shove, here
are twenty things you can do to regain command and control and
push those unwelcome intruders out of your mind.
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Use Power Graphics to
push your mind in a positive direction. When negative thoughts
raise their ugly head, immediately decapitate them with positive
Power Graphics.
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Surf the Positive Web
Ring at PositiveWebRing.com. It contains more than twenty
websites packed full of positive power. The Positive Web Ring
is a FREE Positive Thinking Web Seminar that shows you
how to become a positive person. You can be as positive as you
want. All you need to do is put positive things into your
mind. Visit all the web sites on the Positive Web Ring, and
make your life better today.
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Listen to inspirational messages on
Positive Thinking Radio.com. Dr. Abbott streams positive
messages around the world using internet radio. Turn on your
computer, visit the web site, and start filling your mind with
good things.
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Look at photographs of
your dreams. The battle against depression is won on the
battlefield of focus, and you need to focus your mind on your
dreams. You need to project your dreams on the motion picture
screen of your mind. You can do this with still photographs or
video footage. I looked at a picture of Bora Bora for years
before I actually arrived there on my own yacht. Your mind
loves to think in pictures, so give it something positive to
look at. It will instantly push your mental focus in a positive
direction.
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Turn on Power Music and
listen to the sound of your dreams. Music creates an internal
fireworks display that’s fun to experience. When you listen to
music, your entire physiology changes, and you start marching to
the sound of your dreams. Preselect music that pushes your mind
in a positive direction, and when the voice of negativity starts
its assault, drown it out with positive music.
Listen to inspirational
recordings from audiocassettes. If you want to create a
positive focus in your mind, listen to inspirational recordings
from Zig Ziglar. An hour of listening to Zig will change your
entire day, because your focus will instantly shift in a
positive direction. Listening to an inspirational tape from Zig
the first thing in the morning is like buying an insurance
policy that guarantees you will have a good day.
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Perform a mind
transplant using a positive book. Underline positive passages
in your favorite inspirational books, and whenever negative
thoughts start their assault, read through the passages you have
underlined.
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Write your way to a
positive mind. Take a paper and pencil and start copying
positive thoughts from inspirational books. The act of writing
will focus your mind on the positive thoughts you are putting
on paper.
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Talk about positive
things. What you talk about expands into your life. It’s
dangerous to talk about negative things, because they will
expand into your mind. Instead, start talking about positive
things. Discipline yourself to say at least two positive things
to everyone you meet.
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Create a positive
neuroassociation that puts you in an empowered state. Take your
right fist and place it firmly in the palm of your left hand.
As you do this, repeat the following affirmation: “God loves me
and accepts me the way I am, but He loves me too much to let me
stay that way. He loves me from the top of my head to the tip
of my toes, and it doesn’t get any better than that. There is
no limit to how good my life can become when I open my heart and
mind to the power of his love. For as long as I live, I will
max out on God’s love.” Repeat this affirmation twenty times,
and each time you do it, place your right fist solidly into the
palm of your left hand. After you do it enough times, you will
discover whenever you repeat this gesture, you will be reminded
that the power of God’s love is flowing into your heart and
mind. This neuroassociation will make a big difference in your
life if you repeat it until you feel its positive power. The
inner emotional skeptic will feel strangely positive, and you
will start to feel better.
Love yourself as you
are. God loves you and accepts you as you are, and you should
too. If it’s good enough for God, it should be good enough for
you.
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Act as if you are a
positive person. To become a positive person, you must do the
things positive people do. You have to do it before you can
feel it. When you act as if you’re a positive person, it’s not
long before you become one. Practice doesn’t make you perfect,
but it does make you more positive. Live as if you are a
positive person and practice being positive each day of your
life.
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Live as if you are a
forgiving person. Living as if you are a forgiving person is
the only way you can ever become one. You have to do it before
you can feel it. You must practice forgiveness until it
actually happens. Practice doesn’t make you perfect, but it
does make you more forgiving. Live as if you are a forgiving
person and practice forgiveness each day of your life.
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Live as if you are a
loving person. To become a loving person, you must do the
things loving people do. You have to do it before you can feel
it. When you act as if you’re a loving person, it’s not long
before you become one. Practice doesn’t make you perfect, but
it does make you more loving. Live as if you are a loving
person and practice being loving each day of your life.
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Repeat positive
self-talk to push your mind in a positive direction. My fourth
book, Maximum Strength Positive Thinking is jam-packed
full of positive self-talk. Repeat the positive self-talk until
your mind starts repeating it back to you. Memorize the
following passage taken from Maximum Strength Positive
Thinking. “Although I can’t control all the events of my
life, I can control what I put into my mind. I have sufficient
control over my mind to shape the outcome of my life in a way
that reflects my goals and aspirations. I have an infinite
number of future lives I can live, and the way I run my mind
determines which of them it will be.”
Memorize positive
affirmations. Repeat the Mega-affirmation until your mind
starts repeating it back to you. “When I jump into God’s ocean
of love, my life is never the same. I am born spiritually, and
I become a new person. Old things pass away, and all things
become new. I look at the world through new eyes and listen
with new ears. I think new thoughts, take new actions, and have
a new life. God’s love changes the way that I think and feel.
His love washes the toxic waste out of my mind and gives me a
clean mind and a pure heart. My old way of thinking and feeling
is gone. My mistakes and failures are cast into God’s ocean of
love. For the first time in my life, I dare to call God my
Father and live as one of his children. God’s love heals my
damaged emotions. My negative feelings and guilt are washed
away in a tidal wave of love. Each day I jump into God’s ocean
of love and have a life transforming experience. Dabbling in it
will never do. This is not something I do just once and the
positive effects last for a lifetime. I must do it every day
for the rest of my life. For as long as I live, I will max out
on God’s love.”
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Perform physical
exercise. Vigorous physical exercise releases endorphins that
have a mood elevating effect. For several hours after the
exercise, your sense of well-being is unequivocally positive.
The exercise doesn’t have to be vigorous; even moderate levels
of exertion have a positive effect.
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Go for a walk in the
park. A walk in the park or a small hike can be a positive
experience that cleanses the mind of negative thoughts. People
who are shut-ins simply blossom when they get outside in the
fresh air. Their world suddenly expands, and they feel as if
they have been released from prison. It’s like the dawning of a
new day or the onset of spring after a long hard winter.
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Open your heart and mind
to the power of God’s love so it can give you a completely new
way of thinking and feeling. God’s love is the most powerful
and most positive force in the universe, and you need to have
its salubrious effects at work inside your heart and mind. When
your heart and mind are full of God’s love, they are exactly the
way God meant for them to be. In fact, there is no limit to how
good your life can become when God’s love fills your heart and
mind.
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Practice God’s presence
each moment of the day. When God made the world, He didn’t walk
away and or turn his back on his creation. God is still alive
and at work in his world. Each day he pours his love into the
human heart and keeps the world from self-destruction. The
power and presence of God in the world is love. Whenever you
see love, you are seeing God’s hand at work. You need to focus
on God’s love, and then pass it on to other people in order to
feel his presence and power.
This list shows there are
plenty of things you can do to push your mind in a positive
direction, and none of these things are high tech or cost a
great deal of money.
Strong arming your mind is
mainly a matter of self-discipline; you don’t need to be a
genius or to talk to a therapist to push your mind in a positive
direction. You simply need to become proactive and use common
sense.
When you feel down and
depressed, you may be so overwhelmed by the voice of depression
you believe you can’t do the twenty things listed above. And if
that’s the case, don’t try to do all twenty; only do a couple of
them. You’ll probably be surprised to find that after you do
two or three, you will be able to work your way further down the
list, and before long, you will realize you are taking back
command and control of your mind.
Winning the battle against
depression is hard, but it’s not impossible, and if you do the
things outlined in the pages of Zero Tolerance To Negative
Thinking, you will regain the high ground in the battle of
the mind. You are not in this battle alone; God is on your
side, and if you let the power of his love flow into your heart
and mind, you will win this battle. Remember, if you want to
have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.
THE POSITIVE WEB RING
The Positive Web Ring has eleven positive web
sites. Each site lifts you up, pushes your mind in a positive
direction, and makes it easier to live your dreams. The
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spirituality,
positive
graphics,
positive music,
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The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into
your mind, and the Positive Web Ring fills your mind with good things.
Give your mind a push in a positive direction today. Cruise your way
to a positive life. If you really want to be positive, nobody
can stop you.
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PositiveSelfTalk.com
PositiveThinkingRadio.com
PositiveGraphics.com
PositiveChristianRadio.com
PositiveButterflies.com
MaximumStrength PositiveThinking.com
ZeroToleranceToNegativeThinking.com
TooManyDrummers.com
GodLovesU.com
Maxingout.com
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Chronicles DVD Previews |
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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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