The Five Precepts (On Anger and Worry)

[cragger65]

This is something that helped me a lot in letting go of the anger in the beginning, and I still refer to it regularly. I adapted it from Buddhist precepts, re-wording it to fit my own thinking.

In the beginning, I had to let it go - just for one single moment at a time - about three or four hundred times a day. Then 100 - then 2 dozen - then 4 or 5 - now once or twice. Ahhhh, much better =)

Hope this can help someone else,
Dave
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The Five Precepts

Just for this moment, I will not anger.
I accept myself, my life, its events as they happened and circumstances, just as they are, right now.

Just for this moment, I will not worry.
I will have faith in myself and my innate ability to survive, and to heal.

Just for this moment, I will be humble and grateful.
Humble is not a negative, it is merely being honest with one's self. I will take a moment to focus on what I am thankful for in my life. This is a DAILY practice.

Just for this moment, I will do my best.
My best will change from day to day and hour to hour, but I will face the task before me with an honest effort.

Just for this moment, I will show myself fairness and compassion.
Compassion starts at home, so I will treat myself well. This will only benifit me, and all others for which I care.

 

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The Tim Tam Incident of 2007; Exposed As Coping Strategy in 2009!

I hope it is ok to write this here...I found it helped me yesterday while out at the supermarket with my friend. While it isn't quite up to something all that amazing...it does rate up there in the coping techniques agenda. And it worked somehow...I don't know how. It wasn't like I tried to do anything...it just happened. Maybe sometimes that is how we move forward I don't know...something just happens?

So I was at the supermarket yesterday, and I have not done too well at them recently; as my diary will attest to. So I was starting to get quite panicy and spacey, and I don't really know why I would go to the supermarket on a Saturday but I did. And all the accompanying ptsd stuff was starting to get going. And in the midst of all the people and all the noise,and the bright lights, all and everyone around me and the fear building up through me with panic onset. Well with all this going on I saw my first ever...thats right...you heard it here first folks... my first ever packet of "Tim Tams". And like something from a Monty Python movie...I felt as though I had found the Holy Grail!!! I could feel myself just laugh inside....and it felt good...SOOo good. And from this internal laughter I began to relax some...not huge but some and that is good. That I hope was me finding accidently something to help me cope.

So I went to post a short comment and to thank the original author and Tim Tam "bandit" then found comments also, which just cracked me up completely. And now I feel that I have to post this somewhere, as now I think maybe it has gone into my memory bank as something good that happened when I went out. Something funny that I can take with me again. And something that I can utilize as a coping strategy. And maybe someone else can also, or even just see that coping strategies can take all forms.


I had come in to thank Anthony, but realised that this, in some small way is a step forward for me, in being able to cope. And has as such got to rank up there with the greats.
So I have put it up here with Dave's positive affirmations...and anything that helps the positive stuff to embed better has got to be good.


Hope this can help somebody else also


~fin


Tim Tams are a new thing here I think, well in my neck of the woods anyhow. I can't believe I have gone all my life never having seen them. What other wonders there are for me to experience? LOL!!
I want to say thankyou also again...I had not read the comments on "The Tim Tam Incident of 2007".
You guys are soo very funny... I love the bickering thing about biscuits....just soo very funny THANKYOU again...I will never forget this - I hope. Maybe this is the stuff that legends are born out of!!! hah!