Jail sucks. Don't do it.

I tend to like this guided meditation:

more seriously I don't use a mantra but I do always remind myself: there is a workable solution, find it.

"Nothing lasts, this too will pass" also I have found asking myself if I really need to associate with toxic people or can I let them go/avoid them entirely. It makes life much nicer when I do.

I am enough.

1. "Suck it up, cupcake." For those icky situations
2. "What am I supposed to learn from this?" For when I have time to consider

"Don't kill anyone today".

Breathe in, Breathe out, Move on.

Mine us the following...just to note generally I just think this and say it to myself.

Sometimes I can be heard muttering it under my breath.

On a couple of highly stressful occasions I have said it out loud over and over again..which some of my colleagues found amusing...

"KEEP IT TOGETHER!" "KEEP IT TOGETHER!"
"KEEP IT TOGETHER!" "KEEP IT TOGETHER!"
"KEEP IT TOGETHER!" "KEEP IT TOGETHER!"

The closest thing to a mantra that I have is "This too shall pass." I could probably use one that's a little cheerier and more inspirational

I have two, actually...
Make life a jorney not a destiny.
Do what you need to do to get the job done.

It’s sort of a mantra. I constantly tell myself and others to change “It can’t be done” to “I currently don’t know how it can be done”.

It helps remove self imposed obstacles to solutions.

OH SHIT! Not again!

KeysWalletPhoneGlassesPen

Repeated rapidly as I’m headed out the door?.

I can and shall, I shall and will

Repeat, repress, forget, repeat, repress, forget...

Be calm. Move on. Do no harm.

The Mantra of Motherhood: This too shall pass, I've used it for over 30 years. My other mantra is: Everything will be OK in the end. If it isn't OK, it isn't the end. And when I make phone calls for my job my mantra is: please go to voice mail.

Learning supercedes everything !!!!

I am in a point in my life where I refuse therapy or cures... I will take them illnesses as they come. I will let them to slowly desecrate my body... now if I ever, ever... need Viagra, I will commence to hoard the damned thing until is misused properly!!! What will be a Rule without an exception?

A-U-M.

Most days, I can't decide and seek inspiration. Fortunately, the internet is there to help me out.

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repetition is a good learning tool mine is the classic this too shall pass

"Use the right tool for the right job" That one sticks with me.

(Oh...first, I fully grant you your use of artistic license in your post... but, as a mental health provider, I'd like to clarify what CBT is and isn't in this post. Mantras are not part of CBT. CBT seeks to help clients to consider how thier beliefs, expectations, biases and rules about the way the world "should" work influence their thoughts and feelings. Sometimes, we find that we have come into a situation where two or more of our expectations about the world are in conflict, causing emotional distress. It could also be that old rules are no longer serving us to the best potential. The realizations from this therapy, that is based in cognition (thinking), come naturally, and can be very transformative... and all the change comes from within the client... no mantras involved.)

“ If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again.” This is attributed to Robert the Bruce who was inspired by watching a spider when hiding from his enemies in a cave, on the island of Staffa. He used this mantra on his troops before the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.....they routed the English in the greatest victory in Scottish history, so it obviously worked!

“That’s life,” by Frank Sinatra is something I repeat when life hits me hard. Just gotta keep moving forward.