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How do I stop criticizing myself?

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Questions

Questions

From B. DeRoes page on test anxiety from Edmund Bourne’s “The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook” I found these Socratic tips on countering negative self talk:

  1. What is the evidence for this?
  2. Is this always true?
  3. Has this been true in the past?
  4. What are the odds of this really happening (or being true?)
  5. What is the very worst that could happen? What is so bad about that? What would I do if the worst happened?
  6. Am I looking at the whole picture?
  7. Am I being fully objective?

These are excellent questions to ask yourself when you “get your negative tapes” going in your head.

Deepak Chopra . Perception . Depression

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Study in Gray

Study in Gray

Sometimes when I read Deepak Chopra, I am reminded of the old saying: vanity, vanity, all is vanity. If everything around us is simply perception, why then do we even bother doing anything, why did he bother to write the book. If there is nothing that exists outside of us, then why go on? Is everything in the world going on for just my benefit? Why then is there so much going on that I cannot pay attention to all of it?

I am grateful for the wisdom I am finding in Chopra, but sometimes the questions that his writings bring up get awfully BIG in my head. Sometimes these questions are not good for my recovery from depression. I am grateful that I have the ability to stay calm and objective to sort through these things.