Author: Kevin Evertt FitzMaurice, M.S.

• Sigh at your sigh.• Moan at your moan.• Frown at your frown.• Smile at your smile.• Laugh at your laugh.

Scenario: You are asked by a parent if their small child will grow out of a debilitating condition or if the condition is genetic and the family will have to learn to live with it. You are not certain the problem is genetic but all indications are that…

• How familiar are you with the outer place that you drink, eat, sleep, and live in?• How familiar are you with the inner place that you eat, drink, sleep, and live in?• Is the outer place that you live in like a city, garden, farm, forest, mountain, p…

• The mind hosting a thought is no more that thought than is a hotel the guests that it is hosting.• The mind reflecting a thought is no more that thought than is a lake the moon that it is reflecting.• The mind receiving a thought is no more that thou…

• How do I start? How you start is by doing what you can with what you have.• When do I start? When you start is whenever you make the time to or find the opportunity to.• Where do I start? Where you start is where you are. You won’t wait until you are…

• Want to understand your conversations with your family? They are like your self-talk.• Want to know what your future married conversations will be like? They will be like your self-talk.• Want to have better relationships? Improve your self-talk and …

• Want to end your self-talk? Practice not taking sides (detach); and, instead act like a UN peace observer.• Want to end your self-talk? Practice deconstructing it (detach), because when you take self-talk apart it appears as foolishness.• Want to end…

• Self-talk is not accidental or monkey mind, self-talk is purposeful in its desire to hold your attention.• Self-talk will jump to whatever will keep you engaged, because its one goal is to have your energy, focus, and time to itself.• Self-talk keeps…

• Why do you wait for your self-talk to deliver the goods? Has your self-talk ever delivered the goods?• Why do you have faith in your self-talk? You must because you let it ramble on as if it had a place to go.• Why do you trust your self-talk to sort…

• Why do you expect your self-talk to know anything when knowing is beyond human capability?• Why do you expect “trying” to work for your self-talk when “trying” fails in all other areas of your life?• Why do you expect your self-talk to do anything wh…