In keeping with an earlier post, here are some Gremlin Taming Tips from Rick Carson
Breathe! Your breathing is both a barometer and a regulator of your level of contentment.
Stay aware of your skin. It's both a wonderfully sensitive receptor and a miraculous sheath that separates you from the rest of the world.
Remember that feeling good is primarily an inside job. Events occur around you. Your experience of those events occurs within the boundary defined by your skin.
Simply Notice. Notice your thoughts, feelings, fantasies, memories and assumptions and notice that these are all different processes.
Play with options.
Relax your pact to keep your act intact. In the words of Terry Allen, "Your ego may not be your amigo."
Think of your awareness as a spotlight that you control.
Change for a change.
In every moment you are a devotee. You devote your awareness to something. Choose with care, breath to breath, what you devote your awareness to and devote fully.
Breathe! Remember to take in all of the air you want and to exhale fully.
The key is choice. Don't grapple with your gremlin. Simply notice him or her fully, and then choose to redirect your awareness - or not.
Worry is a cerebral house of mirrors into which your gremlin ushers you. Worry and constructive thought are different processes. Worry is fraught with anguish, feels lousy and results in shallow breathing. Constructive thought involves knowing where you want to be, and taking the steps to get there.
Your past is not attached to you. You may be holding onto it. But it is not holding on to you.
A belief is just an opinion to which you've developed loyalty. Notice your opinions.
When you're not sure what to say, consider saying, "I'm not sure what to say."
Your existence has been a series of precious moments leading you right here, right now. What's next is up to you.
Remember where you end and all else begins and leap off into the future.
Consider the notion that you and the world were created 2 seconds ago complete with history, props, and players.
Center yourself.
Be at choice with what you're attending to.
