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View All Problems As Challenges. Look Upon Negativities That Arise As Opportunities To Learn And To Grow. Don't Run From Them, Condemn Yourself, Or Bury Your Burden In Saintly Silence. You Have A Problem? Great. More Grist For The Mill. Rejoice, Dive In, And Investigate.

Whatever Attitudes We Habitually Use Toward Ourselves, We Will Use On Others, And Whatever Attitudes We Habitually Use Toward Others, We Will Use On Ourselves.

Mindfulness Helps Us Freeze The Frame So That We Can Become Aware Of Our Sensations And Experiences As They Are, Without The Distorting Coloration Of Socially Conditioned Responses Or Habitual Reactions.

Prayer And Contemplation Are Both Exercises In Concentration. The Normal Deluge Of Conscious Thought Is Restricted And The Mind Is Brought To One Conscious Area Of Operation. The Results Are Those You Find In Any Concentrative Practice: Deep Calm, A Physiological Slowing Of The Metabolism And A Sense Of Peace And Wellbeing

They Have No Power Over You. It's All A Show, A Deception. Your Urges Scream And Bluster At You; They Cajole; They Coax; They Threaten; But They Really Carry No Stick At All. You Give In Out Of Habit. You Give In Because You Never Really Bother To Look Beyond The Threat. It Is All Empty Back There. There Is Only One Way To Learn This Lesson, Though. The Words On This Page Won't Do It.