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InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
July 3, 2024
The focus for today is:
I interrupt anxious thoughts and replace them
with a reassuring and calming statement.
Today's inspiration was written by Jude Bijou:
Stop letting your mind run wild. The constant thoughts and chatter running through your head exacerbate your feelings of anxiety and pressure.
Interrupt those thoughts and replace them with a reassuring and calming statement.
Some examples: "Everything is all right. One thing at a time. I'll handle the future in the future. Be here now."
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Feeling Stressed? Call for These 8 StressBusters
Written by Jude Bijou.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of inner peace (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: Our mind with its nonstop thoughts and chatter has been compared to a chattering monkey, thus called the monkey mind. Yet our mind is ours to control, to direct, to guide. To do so, we must first start listening to whatever chatter our mind is going on and on about inside our head. Turn off the external sounds, the distractions, so that you can "hear yourself think". Then set out to do a mental housecleaning and only keep those thoughts that are beneficial.
Our focus for today: I interrupt anxious thoughts and replace them with a reassuring and calming statement.
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RELATED BOOK: Attitude Reconstruction
Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life
by Jude Bijou, M.A., M.F.T.
With practical tools and real-life examples, this book can help you stop settling for sadness, anger, and fear, and infuse your life with joy, love, and peace. Jude Bijou's comprehensive blueprint will teach you to: ? cope with family members' unsolicited advice, cure indecision with your intuition, deal with fear by expressing it physically, create closeness by truly talking and listening, improve your social life, increase staff morale in just five minutes a day, handle sarcasm by visualizing it flying by, carve out more time for yourself by clarifying your priorities, ask for a raise and get it, stop fighting via two easy steps, cure kids' tantrums constructively. You can integrate Attitude Reconstruction into your daily routine, regardless of your spiritual path, cultural background, age, or education.
For more info and/or to order this book, click here. Also available as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Jude Bijou is a licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT), an educator in Santa Barbara, California and the author of Attitude Reconstruction: A Blueprint for Building a Better Life.
In 1982, Jude launched a private psychotherapy practice and started working with individuals, couples, and groups. She also began teaching communication courses through Santa Barbara City College Adult Education.
Visit her website at AttitudeReconstruction.com/
