April 29, 2018

INSIDE INSIGHT

Feelings

… are bio-chemical reactions stimulated by our primordial desire for survival.

… are not good or bad; they just are what they are.

… are not facts, but result from our perception and translation of the “facts”.

… are messy and not efficient.

… are the source of energy for:
fight, leading to anger and resentment
flight, leading to fear
freeze/camouflage/hide, leading to dishonesty and secrets

… are constructive or destructive

… are signals that:
tell us what is healthy or unhealthy in our external environment;
sustain us or create suffering;
provide comfort or discomfort;
nourish us or kill us;
meet our needs or warn of a source of danger.

… are conditional [learned] habits of responding
negative
positive

… are lenses that magnify, clarify or distort perceived reality.

… are dulled or eliminated by trauma and/or addiction [anesthetized/frozen].

… are able to thaw out through recovery.

… are messages that need translation for meaning to enable appropriate action.

… are never controlled but do require management.

… are signposts that reveal what we perceive, allowing us to determine what we want or don’t want; what we need or don’t need; what fosters our equilibrium or creates chaos.

April 29, 2018

INSIDE INSIGHT

1. I am not the center of life
2. I am the center of my life
3. Don’t take life personally
4. Do take reality as it is
5. I am responsible for my
1. Perceptions
2. Emotions
3. Behaviors
6. I am not responsible for your
1. Perceptions
2. Emotions
3. Behaviors
7. When I don’t change my actions, my life stays the same, no matter what I think or feel
8. When I do change my actions, my thinking and feeling change – then my entire life changes
9. This present moment will pass
10. This present moment is the only time I can actually live
11. I am really going to die
12. I need to ask: Am I really going to live
13. There is no one coming to save me
14. I am the one I am waiting for