If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.
Stop shoulding on yourself - Albert Ellis
Stop shoulding on yourself
- Albert Ellis
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - … - Albert Ellis
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - …
Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up. - Albert Ellis
Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.
You mainly feel the way you think. - Albert Ellis
You mainly feel the way you think.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. - Albert Ellis
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them. - Albert Ellis
Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. - Albert Ellis
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action. - Albert Ellis
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the pr… - Albert Ellis
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the pr…
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