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“Feelings are often accompanied by urges. Those urges are suggestions, nudges, persuasions telling us to try this or that to relieve the discomfort that we feel or to seek the reward that we anticipate. While those urges can be powerful, we don’t have to do what they say.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
“Natural selection shaped us to care enormously about waht other people think about our resources, abilities, and character. This is what self-esteem is all about. We constantly monitor how much others value us. Low self-esteem is a signal to try harder to please others.”
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
― Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“The words we use can powerfully determine the meaning of a situation and our approach to it.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
“Thoughts are not facts. They are guesses, stories, memories, ideas and theories.”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
“Bring to mind a recent memory of a failure or setback. Then work through the following exercise. Notice what emotions are brought up by that memory and where you feel them in your body. How did the self-criticism sound? What words and phrases came up and how did they influence how you felt? How did you then respond to the feelings? Bring to mind someone that you love or respect. If they experienced the same failure, how might you have responded to them differently? Why would you have shown them that respect? How would you want them to perceive the setback in order to get them back on track?”
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
― Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
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