The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity

When you focus on things you have no power to change, you get unhappy. When you focus on things you actually have the power to change, you get happy.

pick one aspect of breathing to focus on, one that would have the greatest payoff in health and happiness, it would be to notice when your breathing shifts up into your chest. It does that when you’re angry and when you’re scared.

thinking about the past.

Awareness is important; criticism is absolutely unnecessary.

I discovered that every time I found myself explaining and justifying something, I could trace that “something” back to an incompletion.

When we leave a situation incomplete, nature will find a way to keep reminding us of the incompletion. Nature seeks completion and will propel us to great lengths to get it.

when we’re scared, the way we breathe looks and feels different from when we’re angry or sad. You can check this out for yourself. Notice that when you get scared, your belly muscles tighten and your breath shifts up higher in your chest.

If you train your awareness on the contents of your thought stream for a while, you will discover something that may surprise you.

I realized that all I had to do was speak honestly about what I knew and what was going on with me. All I really needed to focus on was that every word I spoke resonated with my inner experience. I didn’t need to control my feelings or how the audience reacted to me.