Here they sat at a social breakfast table–all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes–looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
Chapter 5: Breakfast – Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Coffee drinking in the morning is what makes getting up in the morning such a pleasure, makes life worth living. And coffee gets one moving, and you know: moving is good for you.
Hunger is the first element of self-discipline.
If you can control what you eat & drink, you can control everything else.
Correlations have been observed between psychological conflicts and somatic illness. Links between suppressed emotions and physical health problems are recognized. Accept a holistic view of the individual.
CALDA Clinic by Claudia M. Elsig, MD (2022)
Affirmation mode requires saying something positive, whereas an affirmation format produces a positive affirmation no matter what you put in the blanks.
Fill in the blanks with a negative expression:
I love everything about ______________________.
e.g., I love everything about “waiting for answers”.
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do.
Srategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER
A Frequently Changed Strategy Is the same as No Strategy
“Leaden paralysis” is a psychiatric term.
If your thought patterns & attitudes, your very sense of self, could be altered by medication, there seems little room in the equation for the soul.
The Christian existentialist conclusion is that the soul is that which chooses.
Malfunctioning receptors may sap or boost your energy. Chemical fluctuations may create a racket in your head. But you can choose your words & actions.
Choose to reject the Voice of Doom.
MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT MY THOUGHTS ~Kathleen Founds, The Sun Magazine, February 2022