"These tools are quoted or adapted from our self-help books Mental Health Through Will Training, Manage Your Fears Manage Your Anger and Selections From Dr. Low's Works:"
http://www.lowselfhelpsystems.org/documents/a_sampling_of_tools_and_terms.pdf
[One of Abraham Low's classic books can be downloaded for free as part of the Million Book Project: Mental Health Through Will Training (first published in 1950 and it shows)]
- Treat mental health as a business and not as a game.
- Humor is our best friend, temper is our worst enemy.
- If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude towards it.
- Be self-led, not symptom-led.
- Nervous symptoms and sensations are distressing but not dangerous.
- Temper is, among other things, blindness to the other side of the story.
- Comfort is a want, not a need.
- There is no right or wrong in the trivialities of every day life.
- Calm begets calm, temper begets temper.
- Don't take our own dear selves too seriously.
- Feelings should be expressed and temper suppressed.
- Helplessness is not hopelessness.
- Some people have a passion for self-distrust.
- Temper maintains and intensifies symptoms.
- Do things in part acts.
- Endorse yourself for the effort, not only for the performance.
- Have the courage to make a mistake.
- Feelings are not facts.
- Do the things you fear and hate to do.
- Fear is a belief—beliefs can be changed.
- Every act of self-control leads to a sense of self-respect.
http://www.lowselfhelpsystems.org/documents/a_sampling_of_tools_and_terms.pdf
[One of Abraham Low's classic books can be downloaded for free as part of the Million Book Project: Mental Health Through Will Training (first published in 1950 and it shows)]
