Understanding and Cultivating a Positive Mental Attitude by Joanne Ronan Moore

Understanding and Cultivating a Positive Mental Attitude

Based on Book by Norman Vincent Peale

Believing in Yourself

1.       Five Qualities you do believe you possess

2.       Five areas where you question your skills/abilities

3.       How are your insecure feelings acted out everyday?

4.       What is getting in the way of your happiness and success?

What is in Your Mind

1.       What are your fears? Hates? Worries?

2.       What images pacify you? Describe the image.

3.       What words conjure up peaceful thoughts and images? Describe them here.

Creating an Easy Mind

-          The mind responds to teaching and discipline

-          Saturate your mind with Peaceful thoughts. Take 5 minutes. Whenever negative thoughts enter into your images, just say negative thoughts and go back to creating and describing in great detail your ultimate peaceful place.

-          Recognize and write down what fears, worries or hates have entered

-          Everyday take 15 minutes to empty your mind of all thoughts except those that are beautiful and peaceful.

Self Punishment

1.       Is there any area where you have not forgiven yourself?

2.       Childhood insecurities or guilty experiences. What are you blaming yourself for? Why?

3.       These unconscious images create inflamed states of nerves

4.       Imagine that you are with a circle of angels and they are telling you that you are forgiven. You should no longer hang onto the guilt

Energy

-          In our consciousness we tap a reservoir of boundless energy

-          To access this energy we need to be emotionally well integrated and have emotional self mastery

-          Our physical condition is determined largely by our emotional condition.

-          Our emotional life is regulated by our thoughts

-          Are your thoughts zapping you of energy?

-          Are you stewing about inconsequential things? Are you angry and resentful?

-          You don’t have power over others…..are you trying to influence decisions that others are making? Are you trying to influence thoughts? Feelings and behaviours of others?

-          Remember resentment is the # 1 Block to Physical, emotional, spiritual wellness

-          To live with Constant Energy it is important to get the emotional faults corrected

-          Do you have a plan?

-          Meditate. Picture the Outcome? Actualize?

Creating Your Own Happiness

1.       Keep your heart free from Hate, your mind free from worry

2.       Live simply expect little/give much

3.       Fill Your Life with Love. Scatter sunshine

4.       Forget self. Think of others

5.       Do as you would be done by

6.       Try it for a week

If happiness is determined by our thoughts- it is necessary to drive off the thoughts which make for depression/discouragement

Stop Fuming/Fretting

1.       Sit relaxed in a chair

2.       Progressive relaxation: toes to head

3.       Think of your mind as the surface of a lake in a storm…tossed by waves and tumult.

4.       But now the waves have subsided..the lake is placid and unruffled

5.       Spend 2 minutes visualizing the most beautiful/peaceful scene

6.       Repeat the words that accompany this visualization (sun kissed/serene sky/majestic mountains

7.       Think of life when you felt truly blessed

Expect the Best and Get It

The Story of the Blessed Bats: Hugh Fullerton sports writer of a bygone era

He told the story of Josh O’Reilly, manager of San Antonio Club of the Texas baseball league

Club was in a slump Lost 17 of the 20 games

Josh felt team was thinking wrong. They expected to be defeated

Mental Pattern was not one of Expectation but of Doubt

No Free flow of power in the team

O’Reilly asked for 2 Bats

Went to neighborhood Minister Schlater asked him to bless the bats

Expecting the best means you put your whole heart into it-people are defeated not because of lack of ability but lack of heartedness

Teaching a Boy to High Jump

Throw your heart over the bar—your body will follow

Heart is the symbol of creative activity

Throw your faith over the difficulty

Throw your affirmation over the barrier

Throw your visualization over the obstacle

Expect the Best..not the worst

God runs a beauty parlor…visiting grads 30 years later. Beauty of inner contentment and peace are written all over their faces

Worry..a bad mental habit

1.       You become a worrier by practicing worry

2.       How do you practice Faith?  I believe…3 times every time you interrupt a worry phase.

3.       Practice saying something positive about which you have been talking negatively.

4.       Never participate in a worry conversation

5.       One reason you are a worrier is because your mind is saturated with apprehension thoughts, defeat thoughts and gloomy thoughts…success in this word depends on faith, hope, happiness, glory and radiance!!!

6.       Cultivate friendships with hopeful people.

Solving Life’s Problems

1.       Believe that every problem has a solution

2.       Keep calm

3.       Don’t force an answer

4.       Assemble all facts

5.       Lists facts on paper and your feelings

6.       Meditate/pray on a solution

7.       Trust in the faculty of insight and intuition

8.       Let you subconscious work on the problem as you attune to a mood of hopefulness

When Vitality sags

1.Anger is an emotion and an emotion is always warm, even hot. To reduce emotion..cool it. Control voice, tone, clenching hands, aggressive body language.

Reduce your Volume. Flatten your tone. Slow you speech.

2. Say aloud, my anger will not solve this problem.

3. Under anger is sadness…what am I really sad about?

4. Count to ten

5. Anger accumulates so make a list of all the things bothering you. Deal with them individually.

6. When I am angry I am making a fool out of myself and I am losing friends.

7. Don’t brood over hurt feelings.

8. You and your feelings are important…restore yourself to a peaceful place. Focus on yourself, what you want to feel, meditate on it.

9.  An inflow of new thoughts can remake you.

10. Practice the easy does it .  “I am practicing the art of just sitting in the sun”

11. Never try and restain grief…holding it in means it emerges in some other form.

Be memorable

1.       Learn to remember names.

2.       Be a comfortable person

3.       Don’t let things ruffle you..withhold judgement

4.       Don’t be egotistical..guard against knowing it all.

5.       Know the scratchy parts of your personality. Soften them.

6.       I never met a man I didn’t like.

7.       Never miss a chance to say a kind word, a thank you, congratulations

Understanding and Developing a Positive Mental Attitude

A Two day Workshop with

Joanne Ronan Moore MA

Certified Canadian Counsellor, Executive Coach and Author

This dynamic two day workshop is a must for men or women of all ages who feel frustrated with the life circumstances in which they find themselves. A candidate for this workshop may be a person facing a change in their health or that of a loved one,  a loss of a job or a significant relationship. Along with a feeling of frustration or feeling overwhelmed, you may feel sad, anger, disappointed or depressed. You may feel that changing things for the better is not possible.

Joanne will guide you step by step through a process to identify your thought processes, the feelings attached to them and a methodology to turn things around. The two days will be a nice balance between teaching sessions, experiential activities and personal journal time. Joanne creates a safe and warm atmosphere in which to work. Participants are encouraged to be resources to each other.

Call 613.290.3304 to learn more about the two days, to talk to Joanne about your personal circumstances. Messages can be left. This is a private and confidential line.

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Joanne’s Background:

A former leader in education of 20 years, Joanne graduated in the Pastoral Counselling program at St. Pauls’s University in 2004. She works in private practice as a counsellor and coach. She works with MBA students at Queen’s  and Cornell Universities and runs a vibrant private practice helping clients deal with life’s  stresses in such a way as to enable them to go on to reach their full potential. An experienced team facilitator, Joanne enjoys leading workshops on topics that she feels are fundamental to a person’s well being and success.