A note to the mods: If you've a choice in the matter, please don't move this thread. I'm aware of the fact that this is no doubt an inappropriate section to post this in, however, this is closer the 'appropriate' than I think most others are. Thank you. 
Third time I've posted this preface, so I'ma' simplify things: Bad news -> Desire for Revenge -> Depression -> Motivation for Self Improvement. Suscinct, I think!
I've always been rather a large proponent of: "If you change your mind, you change your life." This is a very simple thing to say, but much harder to do, as I'm sure you're all well aware. Twenty or forty or a hundred years of thinking a given thing is difficult to change, no matter how hard you may want to change it. Well, I've got my own 'things' that I've held onto for the past twenty years, and I hate holding them. The first step in doing anything is the decision to do it, and I've decided to do it. In the next year I want to shake my:
So, um... How do I do that? Positive thinking and meditation and hypnosis and pot? I mean, they're all well and good but how do I really make them work? I need your guys help on this, everyone, so help me out! What mental tactics have you guys found to help defeat your mental roadblocks? Right at the moment I'm using Wendi Friesen Hypnosis tapes for the self esteem and the weightloss, but I can't seem to focus on them.
Any insight you guys could offer would be more than welcome. I have a year to become the man I want to be, and I'd love your hellp getting there.
-Harm-

Third time I've posted this preface, so I'ma' simplify things: Bad news -> Desire for Revenge -> Depression -> Motivation for Self Improvement. Suscinct, I think!

I've always been rather a large proponent of: "If you change your mind, you change your life." This is a very simple thing to say, but much harder to do, as I'm sure you're all well aware. Twenty or forty or a hundred years of thinking a given thing is difficult to change, no matter how hard you may want to change it. Well, I've got my own 'things' that I've held onto for the past twenty years, and I hate holding them. The first step in doing anything is the decision to do it, and I've decided to do it. In the next year I want to shake my:
- Depression
- Low Selfesteem
- Self Defeating Behavior
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- And much, much more!!
So, um... How do I do that? Positive thinking and meditation and hypnosis and pot? I mean, they're all well and good but how do I really make them work? I need your guys help on this, everyone, so help me out! What mental tactics have you guys found to help defeat your mental roadblocks? Right at the moment I'm using Wendi Friesen Hypnosis tapes for the self esteem and the weightloss, but I can't seem to focus on them.
Any insight you guys could offer would be more than welcome. I have a year to become the man I want to be, and I'd love your hellp getting there.
-Harm-