Life is 50/50 - how do you make that work for you?

-      Opposition in all things -      How often do you think you will feel good? – what percentage of time? -      What percentage of time do you think that you feel bad? -      What does it mean to resist feelings? -       When you resist feelings, you are not only denying yourself negative feelings that may serve you, if you feel them to their fullest for a short period, but you are likely also not able to feel positive feelings that may well serve you too. -      50/50 rule is that half the time, no matter what, your life is, no matter who you are, you are going to feel negative emotions. -      We often feel like there is something external that is going to make us feel like we have “arrived” -      Truth is, that the guy who makes a million dollars a year has just as many down days as a guy that makes $35k -      The woman who weights 125 has just as many down days as the woman who weights 250 -      We want to think that we will not have negative emotions because negative emotions are bad in our mind and that means that there is something wrong with us. -      It is a lie that people who have x don’t have negative emotions. -      Negative emotions are part of the package of opposition in all things.  -      What negative emotions are you trying to avoiding when you are buffering with pornography or other things? -      What negative emotions are you creating when you buffer with pornography or other things? -      What positive feelings are you reserving for when you overcome your pornography use?