The Third Commandment according to Louise Hay is Don’t Scare Yourself. – Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts. It’s a dreadful way to live. Find a mental image that give you pleasure, and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.
When I first read this, I said to myself, this is silly, I don’t scare myself! How could I possibly do that. Then I realized that scaring myself has nothing to do with frightening things I say to myself but all the demeaning things I say to myself when things don’t go exactly the way I want them [...]