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Monday Reflection
“At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made
mountains out of molehills.
With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.”
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Who said it?• Ringo Starr was born as Richard
Starkey on July 7, 1940.
• He grew up in a poor area of Liverpool and taught himself to play the drums.
• Ringo Starr joined The Beatles after their original drummer left.
• Although not the best drummer around at the time, he was valued greatly by his fellow band members for his calm, gentle manner.
• However, during his life he also secretly struggled with anger, depression and alcohol abuse.
• One of the ways Ringo Starr learned to help himself manage his problems was to use meditation techniques.
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One day the countrymen noticed that the mountain seemed to be in labour; there was a rumbling, a shaking and the falling of rocks.
They gathered around and began to tell dark stories of avalanches, volcanoes and earthquakes.
One by one, the countrymen took on a look of dread, sure that something horrible was going to happen.
They waited and they waited, but nothing came. They told even more stories. At last a crack appeared in the side of the mountain.
They waited at a distance, one looking through a telescope, another on his knees praying, another muttering of dragons and monsters.
At last, and at last, a teeny, tiny mouse poked its little head and bristles out of the gap and came running down towards them, and ever after they used to say:
“Much outcry, little outcome.”
‘The Mountain in Labour ‘ – An Aesop Fable
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“It is your mind that creates this world.”
― Gautama Siddhartha
Young and free?
Old and infirm?
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Your response…
What do we mean by a ‘worst case scenario’?
What might someone as successful as Ringo Starr still
worry about?
What times of your life have you really dreaded something? Did
the worst happen?
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‘Prisoner Stance’
Thinking you’re trapped…
Thinking Errors Web
They’re always picking on me…
I get blamed for things I don’t do…Everybody
hates me…
They don’t understand…
My life will
always be like
this…I don’t k
now how to make this situation bette
r…
It just w
on’t work,
it just
won’t make it b
etter…
Nobody’s there to help,
I’m on my own…
I bet she’s thinking I’m…
If I don’t do it he will think I’m…
She seems annoyed with m
e…
I’m
defin
itely
right
, you
’re
tota
lly
wron
g…
She’
s am
azin
g… S
he’s
horri
ble…They all
think I’m…
I love
it h
ere…
I ha
te it
her
e…
‘Victim Stance’
Thinking you’re being persecuted…
‘Zeb
ra S
tanc
e’Al
l or n
othi
ng th
inki
ng…
‘Fortune Teller Stance’Predicting the future - usually in a negative way…
My life will always be like this…
I did
n’t g
et th
e rig
ht
grad
e, I’
m a
tota
l fa
ilure
…
It’s only going to get worse from here…
Could have… Shout have… If only…
‘Mind Reader Stance’
Guessing other people’s thoughts…
I need to do X…. or Y will happen…
How often and how far do you get trapped in the web?
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Word of the Week
intensifyVerbTo make something strong or more extreme.synonyms: amplify, enhance, heighten, accentuateantonyms: decrease, lessen, diminish
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Weekly Puzzle Guess the Proverb
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N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z1 5