The Tower
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05-TOWN
San Pedro Square
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.
13-Pain
Nourishment
Mr. Hunger is a demanding voice you should take with a grain of salt.
If you can resist eating & drinking on impulse, you have the self-discipline to control anything else.
21-Gamp
Conversation
Affirmation mode requires saying something positive.
e.g., I love hearing the answers!
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”.
07-Fuse
Future Memory
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
01-Tine
Listening
GOOD
BAD
06-Trio
San Francisco Chapter
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)
19-Rack
Solitude
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