Managing Emotions Through Responsibility

Nobody makes you feel anything. Nobody makes you

feel angry. Nobody makes you feel tense.

Nobody makes you feel upset. You always decide how

you're going to feel, and then if you're not careful,

you will fall into a negative

habit pattern of blaming the other person.

Blame is the core of all negative emotions.

When you stop blaming, you cut down the negative emotion tree.

You cut it off, you kill it, and all the negative emotions

die simultaneously. How do you do this?

You do this by using the law of substitution.

Remember, the law of substitution says

that the conscious mind can only hold one

thought at a time. It's the thought that the conscious mind holds

that determines

how the emotions will react, how the subconscious mind will react.

Since it can only hold one thought at a time, what you do is you knock

out the thought that is causing the negative emotion,

the blame thought,

and you replace it with this affirmation:

I am responsible.

I am responsible.

I am responsible.

This in conjunction with "I like myself," "I am responsible"

is the most powerful positive affirmation you can use because the

instant that you say, "I am responsible", you exert complete control over your

emotional life