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.”

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.

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

“It is your mind that creates this world.”

― Gautama Siddhartha

Young and free?

Old and infirm?

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?

‘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?

Word of the Week

intensifyVerbTo make something strong or more extreme.synonyms: amplify, enhance, heighten, accentuateantonyms: decrease, lessen, diminish

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