Dawn’s Reviews > Between Two Minds Workbook: 10 Techniques for Healing from Depression and Anxiety > Status Update

Holding into pain is usually a result of our own pride.

Prayer stimulates, strengthens and enlarges the anterior cingulate, where the balance between thought and feeling is sustained. This in turn lessens the stimulation up in the system, which is related to depression and where emotions like anger are processed. this enables empathy and compassion to override the more destructive, les rational reactions of the limbic system.

CORRECTION: self love, used with wisdom and power, allows change to come much easier then when we hate ourselves and constantly judge and criticize ourselves.

We are not here to change the people around us, but to change the natural man within us.

Lies we tell ourselves: I am living myself by defending myself when I have been wrongly accused. The truth is when we feel the need to defend ourselves the way to get out of the conflict is not to defend ourselves against others, but to look at ourselves and why this fear came up.

I'm Christ old is to love our enemies do good to those who despitefully use us, it was not for the other person, it was for us.

Love and affection are the greatest teachers.

when we truly love someone or desire is to serve them, this mortal existence it is impossible to be the sole provider for someone else's needs and wants...Happiness does not come from having someone else provide all things for us. True joy comes from within.

I have learned to love myself in spite of my weaknesses, and therefore learned to love others better in spite of their weaknesses

when we expect something to happen a certain way what we are really looking for is the good feelings that we believe will come to us and our loved ones if things happen the way we expect them to.