CALM
1. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate yourself as regards being
generally calm?
2. In what environments do you feel calm?
3. In what environments are you not calm?
4. Around which people do you feel calm?
5. What thoughts help you feel calm?
6. What thoughts prevent you from feeling calm?
7. When you are not calm, in what significant ways are you different
from when you are calm?
8. Which other people suffer because you are not calm?
9. In what ways and when are you overactive and restless?
10. What could you gain by being more calm?
11. Do other people feel that you are more calm or less calm than you
personally feel you are? If there is any discrepancy between how you view yourself and how others view you, what is the reason for this discrepancy?
12. When do you outwardly act calm even though inwardly you do not
feel at all calm?
13. Do you usually talk in a hurried or calm manner.?
14. When have you felt nervous but by talking in a calm manner you
put yourself in a calm state of mind?
15. Do you constantly feel rushed? What can you do to alleviate those
feelings?
16. Is your home atmosphere usually calm or not? What can you do to
make your home atmosphere calmer?
17. When do you tend to remain calm because you fail to experience
the seriousness of matters?
18. In what normal situations are you not calm?
19. When the unexpected occurs, are you able to remain calm?
20. Do you remain calm even when you are involved in a disagreement?
21. When other people shout at you, are you still able to remain calm?
22. In what ways have you gained by remaining calm when other people
are angry at you?
23. Do you tend to panic or .remain reasonably calm when you are in
danger?
24. When have you remained calm and self-possessed during a crisis?
25. In what ways would you be able to improve in your learning if you
were calmer?
26. What attitudes would help you remain calm in situations that
presently make you feel very nervous?
27. What techniques do you know for putting yourself in a calm and
relaxed state?
28. What major difficulties in your life have you coped with calmly?
29. How would greater Trust in the Almighty enable you to have
greater calmness?
30. Do you make it a regular practice to imagine yourself being calm?
31. Do you have a list of calming thoughts you can repeat to yourself
over and over again?
32. What five things can you do that you are not presently doing to
help yourself become a calmer person?
Rabbi Pliskin
