Beyond Positive thinking, 2

The future can only be changed by our thoughts and actions in the present.

Seize the day and put as little trust as you can in the morrow.

Unfinished business is a drain on your mental resources and a major source of time wasting worry.

For yesterday is a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day!

Your thoughts and actions inevitably create your future as well as your past.

Many people find that they are able to write about life events and feelings which they are much less happy to talk about. Write all of them down, which makes you feel less happy, regularly.

The only place where past still has any reality is in your mind.

If we could develop our abilities to remember all these sensations - the visual, the auditory, the kinesthetic - equally well, and choose which memories to recall at our will, how much richer will our lives be?

When you are immersed in it, depression does not seem to be like a choice. It feels much more like being "taken over" by something over which you have little or no control.

What activities of feelings have given you the greatest feelings of self-worth? Where are the good feelings, associated with them, located in the body?

The events of our lives are just things that happen. They only have a meaning, if we decide to give them one and we can choose what they mean. Each event only has the meaning you have decided to attach to it.