You Don’t Need To Get A Grip
You don’t need to get a grip. You need to let loose of self-chatter that slaps you down until you drown in self-pity.
Why make things worse when your mood sucks pears by talking to yourself about how bad things are and will be? Aren’t things rough and tough enough without playing the same scratchy worry record?
Mood talk: so what to do when your feelings run amok? What do you say to yourself when your feelings are pushing you hard to behave inappropriately? Remember this formula: Bad mood…blame cycle…negatively talking to yourself and others. Why shred your self-esteem and your good character in ineffective ways that cause problems instead of solve them? You get the point, I know.
1. Whenever your inner chatter riles you, forcefully say: “Change the subject!”
2. Whenever you groan in agitation like Eeeyore the donkey, assertively say: “Change the subject!”
3. Whenever you grump about why somebody else won’t change, doggedly say: “Change the subject!”
In these ways you will prove to yourself that you DO have the power to change the mood channel by saying: “Change the subject!”
Play it one more time; Sigmund Freud, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil McGraw. So when your mood sucks pears…change the mood channel…by forcefully saying: “Change the subject!”
Who knows, you may end up feeling more compassionate toward yourself (and others) for a change of heart and mind TODAY.