Everyone struggles. Everyone I know struggles. I certainly struggle. Human beings struggle with things like: relationships, communication, personal finances, macro economics, political choices, fussy folk, self-esteem, raising children, feeling loved, panic attacks, fear, chaos, setting and protection personal boundaries, keeping positive, and so on, and so forth. Since there was a Jesus a Buddha, a Mother Teresa, and so on, there are also people who have found solutions to the struggles of their life. And yes, there may be things we can learn from these struggle-free beings.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. ~Bodhidharma
I think one of my problems has been that I have focused on the problems rather than the solutions. One of my criticism of psychotherapy is that it focus more one the causes of the mental struggles, rather than the solutions to those struggles. NOTE: This is not to say that there is not some need to understanding where these problems come from. There is value in tracing back the problem and analyzing the inciting incident, but at some point it is time to be done with that and move one to solutions. At some point I want to stop focusing on low self-esteem, and start focusing on grabbing and growing healthy, wholesome self-esteem.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
I struggle. It may be debatable whether these struggles have legitimate causes, or that I’m just hypersensitive, but the point is the struggles are there and they have causes. I could easily spend time on the justification of my problems, but why? Dwelling on the past is often my bid for sympathy. Sympathy sends me the signal that my depression, or low-self-esteem is legitimate because other people have voiced their agreement that what happened to me was UNFAIR. Therefore, because my low self-esteem, and my depression is legitimized, I go forth continuing to live with feelings of depression and my negative self-image. What’s good about that?
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. ~Denis Waitley
It is time, for me, to focus on the positive. I know it seems corny. I know that families do not look like Norman Rockwell paintings, and philosophy won’t fit on a bumper-sticker but if I focus on the positive rather than the negative, I am going to be more positive.
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. ~Isabelle Adjani
This positive will extend to those around you. If you are down, Navy Blue, and everything you do is negative then everyone around you will be either pulled down, or at least they will be forced to struggle against your negativity.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion. ~Bodhidharma
I think one of my problems has been that I have focused on the problems rather than the solutions. One of my criticism of psychotherapy is that it focus more one the causes of the mental struggles, rather than the solutions to those struggles. NOTE: This is not to say that there is not some need to understanding where these problems come from. There is value in tracing back the problem and analyzing the inciting incident, but at some point it is time to be done with that and move one to solutions. At some point I want to stop focusing on low self-esteem, and start focusing on grabbing and growing healthy, wholesome self-esteem.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
I struggle. It may be debatable whether these struggles have legitimate causes, or that I’m just hypersensitive, but the point is the struggles are there and they have causes. I could easily spend time on the justification of my problems, but why? Dwelling on the past is often my bid for sympathy. Sympathy sends me the signal that my depression, or low-self-esteem is legitimate because other people have voiced their agreement that what happened to me was UNFAIR. Therefore, because my low self-esteem, and my depression is legitimized, I go forth continuing to live with feelings of depression and my negative self-image. What’s good about that?
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. ~Denis Waitley
It is time, for me, to focus on the positive. I know it seems corny. I know that families do not look like Norman Rockwell paintings, and philosophy won’t fit on a bumper-sticker but if I focus on the positive rather than the negative, I am going to be more positive.
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. ~Isabelle Adjani
This positive will extend to those around you. If you are down, Navy Blue, and everything you do is negative then everyone around you will be either pulled down, or at least they will be forced to struggle against your negativity.
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