Balancing the world inside (2)

[netpositive]

Irrational idea for today:
people are fragile and should never be hurt.

Some of the escalators are still broken.
Half the window is blocked.
No juice.

Write down the facts.
Write down your subjective self-talk.
Describe your emotional response.
Dispute and change irrational self-talk.
Substitute alternative, rational self-talk.

Notice your thoughts and feelings,
acknowledge them non-judgementally,
and let them go.

Okay. I'm going dancing now.

Refuting the irrational idea:

This irrational belief results in failure
to openly communicate important feelings, and
in self-sacrifice that gives up what is
nourishing and pleasurable. Since everything
you need or want seems to hurt or deprive someone
else, you feel frustration, helplessness, and
depression. Relationships become full of dead
space where conflicts developed and nothing
was said.
from _The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook_

Comments

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Hello. I'm in the DC area this week. Whuffle was supposed to give me your e-mail address, but hasn't yet done so, so this and your cell are the two ways I have to reach you at the moment.

Free for dinner this week?

I'll try calling later today, as I can't check my personal e-mail during the day this week.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear your week down here is going so badly work-wise, and wish we could have met up for some good cheer.

Sending you one hug for yourself and one to take home to Whuffle.

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

Well wishes mean a lot, especially when the week has been this frustrating.

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

Sometimes just knowing other people have been through something similar, makes it a little easier to bear. Hopefully this weekend you'll get a chance to decompress a little bit with your favorite person in the whole world. :)

And that "FREE" icon is absolutely Superb.

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

I'm home, and enjoying bring home.

The FREE Icon is a perfect description of how I feel at the moment.

[candyguru.livejournal.com]

(She goes with the "Security" Peter Gabriel. Her post looks like it borrows from the "Us." I tend toward the "So." And so it goes.)

It is about communication. How we can and mostly can't. Isn't it?

[netpositive.livejournal.com]

Actually as music, I like the songs on "So" probably the best of all his stuff I have.

Personally, right now I am feeling like I'm struggling through the music/themes of "Security" to get to the music/themes of "So".

More anon...

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Wow.