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‘Life is 10 per cent what happens to you and 90 per cent what YOU do with what happens to you.’
if you resist, it persists; if you accept, you transform.
secret lies in not being carried away by inertia, by attitudes and beliefs that we are not even aware
When we have an open attitude, with our own stimulating and well-established beliefs, our mood cannot be other than the right one.
Silence teaches us that the constant whispers of thought are only vain fleeting ideas that we can receive and abandon affectionately, in order to concentrate again on the joy of conscious breathing. The stillness—remaining
all come to this world with four aces in our hands. Gratitude, kindness, acceptance, and authenticity are the sum of four interlinked successes to which we all have access.
It is clear that he who is well with himself is well with others.
Authenticity is always a banner for lasting
changes.
being aware that everything changes and that everything must change to flow with the times.
Raising the level of our pain threshold makes us less ‘whiny’ and wiser.
Lowering our threshold of satisfaction makes us happier and more empathetic.
distinguish the approachable from the inevitable to better m...
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Only three steps: RESET attitudes, REARM beliefs and REACT for a greater commitment to the present.
In great storms is where great sailors are made, but if beforehand we have not learned to navigate calm waters, the waves of the most adverse circumstances will surely defeat us.
Perfectionism forgets that without error there is no innovation, and without innovation, there is no evolution or improvement.
‘Done is better than perfect,’
It’s better to make a mistake than to laugh (with ‘the smile of the hanged man,’ as it is called in Transactional Analysis) and resign oneself to living one’s whole life as a sad spectator and frustrated protagonist.
Yes or no, decide now, but do not let yourself be mistreated by the ‘tolerances,’ which are nothing more than leaks or ‘energy thieves.’
Happiness is here and now. Not in ‘the here and now,’ as is often said.
Stop planning, stop generating expectations, stop shuffling around your hurries, beliefs, and ruminations. Just feel the treasure you have in your hands at this moment.
To perceive these different levels of consciousness one must first disidentify oneself from one’s own thoughts, because, just as the fish is not aware that it is not underwater until it comes out of it, we are not aware of our ego until we distance ourselves from it.
Emotions have to be experienced, whatever they may be. The worst thing we can do is to cover them up, deny them, reason through them, wallow in them, or suppress them. When we face them, fear disappears, and just as we said that suffering without anxiety acquires other nuances and values, the unpleasant emotion without the wrapping of fear loses its poison.
When you feel an unpleasant feeling, do not let anyone insist on rationally delving into it, do not let anyone question you and ask you why you feel how you feel, if you have ‘no reason be like this.’ What do they know?!
Let the emotion undress and hug her with all your love, so that she ‘does not catch a cold.’
If it’s time for sadness, be sad. Sadness helps us to deal with grief.
Rage is useful to set limits and get out of the impasse or rut. And if it’s time to cry, cry, as everyone does. When it happens, it happens.
