July 2011

JOLT YOURSELF
     Jolt yourself the next time you get a stab of worry. Don’t leave it unchallenged. Right while you’re suffering from concern, worry, etc. (you’ve been taken over) activate your memory of collected wisdom and apply what you’ve learned here by remembering to do this exercise.
     Jolt yourself — even physically shake your head — then physically relax. Truth never breaks its word to any conquering man or woman. Truth is always faithful.
     You do what is true, right in the middle of the sobbing worry thoughts that attack you. You will put yourself on your true side. You will make a deliberate conscious effort to get away from yourself, from Slumberville, from that state that has captured you. Here’s what will happen: All of a sudden, there will be a breakthrough. You don’t want to be pained, suffer anymore. While you were worried, you didn’t know you were. You loved that worry.

SEE WHERE YOU’VE BEEN CRUEL
     One day you will see all you’ve ever been is cruel. Make a list: Where and how do I love to hurt someone? Tell someone off — that woman on the phone? Where do you have revengeful thoughts when you get thwarted in the smallest way, or didn’t get recognition? That look, that scowl, that snarl. Everyone does it.