SILENCE YOUR NEGATIVE SELF-TALK. Alas, ..... do your automatic, intrusive, negative, looping thoughts sometimes trip you up? Are they sucking you in and unsparingly pushing you down an unending, narrow-winding stairway of uncertainty, worry, self-doubt, even fear? You feel devalued and exhausted at times, unable to escape their unwelcome presence. How can you put these unwelcome guests into perspective and effectively manage the outcomes you desire and deserve? Here are three (3) helpful, practical tips you can practice that will support your self-management style and place those controlling, negative thoughts in a less influential position in your life. Perhaps, you have heard the saying, you are not your thoughts, but the observer of your thoughts. One of Master Shi Heng Yi's steps to self-mastery is the practice of non-identification which he explains, " I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not my emotions. It is just that I can see all these three aspec