Quotes about Processing

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

Stinking thinking" is the universal addiction. Substance addictions like alcohol and drugs are merely the most visible form of addiction, but actually we are all addicted to our own habitual way of doing anything, our own defenses, and most especially, our patterned way of thinking, or how we process our reality.

We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.

His feelings were rooted in his inability to process life under the canopy of the grace and the love of God. Here's how Eliab expressed his anger—verbally.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Other times leaders have to hold their feelings in check. When I say that leaders should delay their emotions, I'm not suggesting that they deny them or bury them. The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others—not yourself—first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification.

Our minds may be like some computers that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in them.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

We are to process life by looking up to the Lord and into His Word for wisdom. James 3:14—15 (ESV) says, "If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

If we don't open up a way to process our disappointments, we'll be tempted to let Satan rewrite God's love story as a negative narrative, leaving us more than slightly suspicious of our Creator.

Author has developed a routine of daily emotional debriefing with his kids as he tucks them in at night. To encourage the habit of keeping uncluttered, open heart, he starts with basic questions asking whether anyone has hurt them or made them angry to help them process at an age-appropriate depth. As they mature, he will add questions.