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I got this book in the mail, I was quite shocked it was hard cover, a bit thicker and heavier than I imagined. It took a couple days to open. I wasn't sure what was inside but the gifter has my respect so eventually i opened it almost solemnly as if beginning a new quest or path There are a lot of different things it says and I thought it might make for conversation to discuss it as we go instead of trying to form an opinion on it as a whole. I'll just be sharing thoughts on very small ideas as if on a trail of personal discovery, Anybody else please join in.
My first ideas are about self talk. I read the few paragraphs and started to realize I already try to modify my self talk and I patted myself on the back appropriately. I could get tennis elbow or rotator cuff damage from patting myself on the back and here they are talking about self criticism. Can I bend it into constructive self criticism? I don't know, I may be permanently fucked already.
over the years I have accumulated a dozen, perhaps even three of daily meditation books. You can tell by the number they might take all sorts of forms and disciplines and they do. I like to put someone else's positive thoughts into my brain early in the day. I have found that by noon I have completely forgotten what it was. I try to carry these thoughts into my actions for the day. Sometimes its conscious but other times it goes below conspicuousness. I don't judge but sometimes I make a note or reopen my Kindle around noon and refresh, At the end of the day I study it again.
I have had long periods of life that have benefited by this personal habit. Whatever UnFucking myself eventually might say about it, its been something that has worked for me.
But where the self talk cuts in is that here I am telling myself I at least have one method of modifying self talk, I haven't done it for a week. In fact, since the weather got cold and chased me off the sun porch my morning routine has gone to shit in a hand basket. You see, even though the book hasn't mentioned it, not only is some of my self talk negative, its just plain untrue.
Here's the book I am discussing
UNFU^K
My first ideas are about self talk. I read the few paragraphs and started to realize I already try to modify my self talk and I patted myself on the back appropriately. I could get tennis elbow or rotator cuff damage from patting myself on the back and here they are talking about self criticism. Can I bend it into constructive self criticism? I don't know, I may be permanently fucked already.
over the years I have accumulated a dozen, perhaps even three of daily meditation books. You can tell by the number they might take all sorts of forms and disciplines and they do. I like to put someone else's positive thoughts into my brain early in the day. I have found that by noon I have completely forgotten what it was. I try to carry these thoughts into my actions for the day. Sometimes its conscious but other times it goes below conspicuousness. I don't judge but sometimes I make a note or reopen my Kindle around noon and refresh, At the end of the day I study it again.
I have had long periods of life that have benefited by this personal habit. Whatever UnFucking myself eventually might say about it, its been something that has worked for me.
But where the self talk cuts in is that here I am telling myself I at least have one method of modifying self talk, I haven't done it for a week. In fact, since the weather got cold and chased me off the sun porch my morning routine has gone to shit in a hand basket. You see, even though the book hasn't mentioned it, not only is some of my self talk negative, its just plain untrue.
Here's the book I am discussing
UNFU^K
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I will start examining my self-talk this week to see where I may be self-sabotaging....It does happen to single guys over the holidays 
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