One-Step Anxitey Reduction Techniques

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One-Step Anxiety Reduction Approach

3-26-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

One-Step Anxiety Reduction Approach

Do only what you can do.

That’s the one-step approach,

Doing something so small it will invariably

Be attainable.

We don’t want to choose a task that will not be attainable,

That would be senseless.

However, if we are unable to complete a chosen task,

We have to identify why not.

That becomes the new task,

Identifying the reasons why they were not attained.

Then our goal becomes finding the next appropriate task

And achieving it.

Once we have done that,

We can move on to the next issue.

The above describes

The one-step anxiety reduction approach.

It involves achieving one task at a time

Dr. Tony

Respect Every Person

Respect Every Person

3-19-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

Respect Every Person 

Respect every person

Everyone!

Yes! Every single one of them!

That angry man next door?

That lady that’s always complaining?

That snotty kid down the street?

Your mother-in-law?

Every single one of them!

Respect every person

Do they deserve it?

What do you have to do to deserve respect?

Is it based on looks?

Intelligence?

Your choice?

I wonder how I could deserve to be respected.

What do I have to do?

Respect every person

Every single one of them.

That’s what you have to do.

There are no exceptions.

Neither you nor I

May be left out of this picture.

Maybe it’s my birthright.

I don’t have to deserve it for any other reason.

I am a child of God.

That’s why I deserve respect.

It’s because of Him that everybody deserves respect,

Every single one of them.

Each is a child of God.

Respect every person!

Dr. Tony

A Conversation with God

A Conversation with God

3-5-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

 

A Conversation with God

A prayer and a listening

That’s a conversation with God

It takes two, not just you

If you’re not listening

There won’t be a conversation

When you speak to God

You have to listen to call it a conversation

Here’s how you do it

You speak and you become silent

That way you can listen for God’s response

And then you wait for His reply

It may happen now or in a day or seven

Or even more

But He surely will reply

If you are listening

There will be an answer

Perhaps an awareness or an understanding

Or the feeling of a light bulb going on in your head

But an answer will come

If you are listening

Now that’s really a prayer

It’s called a conversation with God

Dr. Tony

Habits Can be Broken

Habits Can be Broken

2-27-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

Habits Can be Broken

And some should be broken

If they are unproductive make them productive

Or they will hurt you

Don’t make excuses for keeping those that are of no value

You’re wasting your time

And maybe you’re afraid of change

Don’t be!

Change is good

Bad habits must be changed

Because they are unproductive

Break those bad habits

Here’s the start

Your belief that you can do so

And you will!

Don’t hang on to unproductive habits

They will do you in

And the most destructive habit of all is

Anxiety

It’s not something you need

Decide to change those anxieties one at a time

You can do it!

Habits can be broken

Break your anxiety habits

Each one of them

Identifies an opportunity for change

They are your opportunities for change

Now is the time

Do it!

There are therapists that can help you

Dr. Tony

Bruder Counseling Center

Happy Prayers

    Happy Prayers

Originally posted 11-14-15

Happy Prayers

2-21-16

Sunday

Happiness Day

Happy Prayers

But shouldn’t all prayers be happy?

After all, they are prayers to God

And why wouldn’t each and every prayer to God

Not create happiness in us?

Happiness

Shouldn’t the mere thought of God

Make us happy?

Even at times

Ecstatically happy?

My God is a happy God

Isn’t yours?

If your God is not happy

Then that may affect your own happiness

And make you sad

Happy prayers

They are the result of viewing God

As a happy God

Why not view God that way?

And create your own happiness

A happy God

Is the result of your vision of God

See God as happy

And your prayers will be happy

And you will be happy

Create your own happiness

God has given you that power

Dr. Tony

Anxiety and Mindfulness

Anxiety and Mindfulness

2-13-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

Photography Credit:Scenescapery

Anxiety and Mindfulness

Today is Happiness Day

If you choose mindfulness

You choose happiness

Don’t choose anxiety

It’s a downward spiraling journey

It never stops that downward spiral

It heads to a no man’s land of emptiness and confusion

Please don’t go there

It’s the land of misery

Mindfulness

It’s the magic of being in the moment

It’s my presence in the now

It’s my undivided attention to a point in this moment in time

It’s living exclusively in this present moment when you are mindful

It’s not a here, there and everywhere

That’s anxiety

It’s a “now” focus

Mindfulness cannot exist in anxiety’s presence

Anxiety

Nor can anxiety exist in mindfulness’s presence

They are contradictions

They are opposites

They cannot live with one another

So you better choose mindfulness

Who in heaven’s name would ever choose anxiety?

Mindfulness is the goal

Then you are choosing to obliterate anxiety

Dr. Tony

Happiness The Goal of All my blogs

Happiness

The Goal of All my blogs

2-6-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

Photo Credit: Scenescapery

Happiness

Is the Goal of All my Blogs

Of every poem I write

What more is there?

What goal could be more delightful?

What more could I desire?

Could anything exceed ii?

Happiness

It’s God

How can I define God?

He is love, peace and happiness

There is nothing beyond love

Nothing beyond peace

Nor is there anything beyond happiness

You can never be truly happy

Without love and peace

They always accompany one another

Happiness is God

And she is always accompanied with love and peace

Find One

And you find them all

The three bring heaven to earth

Now you see why

The goal of all my blogs

Is happiness

When I speak of happiness

I speak of love

I speak of peace

I speak of God

He is in my heart and I am in his

You are welcome to join me there

Dr. Tony

Happiness Is the Goal of all My Blogs

Happiness

Is the Goal of all My Blogs

1-30-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

Photography Credit: Scenescapery

The Goal of all my blogs

Is happiness

I chose that goal

Because God is happiness

Then I thought, why not be like him?

Why not be happy?

He must have created us to be happy, not sad

I’m sure it is our mandate from God to be happy

How fortunate we are!

Happiness

What more can there be to life?

What better gift can flow from my blogs than happiness?

When we are happy

We are in touch with the Source

Who is love and peace as well as happiness

All three exist in one another’s company

Love, peace and joy

They can never be separated

They are the three loyal sisters

Who are always together

Happiness

What goal could be better?

Than writing each blog

With the purpose

Of making people happy

Happiness

You couldn’t ask for more

And what more could be given to you?

Than love, peace and Joy

Find happiness and you find God

Dr. Tony

The God of Happiness

The God of Happiness

1-29-16

Friday

Ultimate Happiness Day

The God of Happiness

He must be some God, this happy God

He must be truly special

To be the God of Happiness

After all

He is the creator of happiness

The epitome of all happiness

Of all that is good

Choose happiness

And you choose God

But it must be true happiness

That deep inner feeling of love and peace

I never realized or recognized happiness’s preeminence and  value

until now

Value happiness!

And you value God

Don’t underestimate happiness

If you do

You underestimate God

Happiness is of the essence of God

Happiness is an extraordinary sign of God

It is God

When you are happy

You display your Oneness with God

When you are happy

You become a picture of God

And God is seen in you

Dr. Tony

Parents Model Happiness

Parents

Model Happiness

1-28-16

Thursday

Another Happiness Day

Model Happiness

As parents, this is your task

If you want your child to be happy

You must teach her how to be happy

You must show him what happiness looks like

It’s a beautiful sight

Don’t teach her to worry about your unhappiness

You deserve happiness

As well as they

Teach Happiness

It comes from doing all the right things

From being loved and valued and respected

And your children learning to do the same for others

It’s about being kind, generous and understanding

And your children learning to do that too

It’s about teaching the virtues of human life

To enable your children to learn the meaning

Of true happiness

Value happiness

Your children won’t value it

If you don’t show it

Nor will they learn it

If you don’t show it

So where and how will they learn it?

It’s your task to teach them

If you don’t

They may choose the wrong people to do so

Dr. Tony

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What Makes Me Happy Part III

What Makes Me Happy?

Part III

1-23-16

Saturday

Happiness Day

What makes Me Happy?

Love does

It’s the ultimate giver of happiness

Nothing makes me happier

Than the giving and receiving of love

Love!

Child of God

Love!

It awaits you

I need happiness

Just as I need God

Happiness and God are one and the same entity

God is love, peace and happiness

They are all One

Unite  with God

And you have them all

It’s heaven on earth

What more could you want?

Happiness

It’s being cozy and comfy

It’s passing a test

A game of monopoly

My friend whose always there

Mom and dad holding hands

Family

A hug

This is the end of a never ending list

And for me it’s writing this poem

And saying “I love you all”

Dr. Tony

What Makes Me Happy?

What Makes Me Happy?

1-21-16

Thursday

My Happiness Day

What Makes me Happy?

There’s so much

What a lucky gal/guy I am

I’m happy

When I’m with my friends

When I’m kind and loving

And I like to blow bubbles for fun

Funs nice

What makes me happy?

There are so many things

When my life is going well

When my mom and dad feel good

I’m happy

When my teacher’s nice

Even when my brother tells me stupid stuff

I like my sister sometimes

What makes me happy?

There’s really a lot

Like when I get good grades

And act silly

I’m happy

So much of the time

I’m so lucky to find things that make me happy

And then do them

I guess it’s up to me to make myself happy

I need to do the things that work

The things that make me happy

Dr. Tony

Writing this poem made him happy