{"id":652,"date":"2008-10-05T18:50:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T23:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/today-the-gathering-october-5\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:52:12","slug":"today-the-gathering-october-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-october-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering &#8211; October 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ <a href=\"http:\/\/g3church.com\/\">The Gathering<\/a> we began a brand new series entitled, <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u201cMastering My Emotional Monsters\u201d<\/span> what to do when you don\u2019t feel the way you want to.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always sad to see one series go, in this case,<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/davidfosteratthegathering\"> <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u201cChasing Balance.\u201d<\/span> <\/a> What a great time we had discovering the seven positive principles that you can apply right now, in the pressure-cooker we\u2019re all living in.<\/p>\n<p>Now we begin a brand new series that really dove-tails on the past to help us know what to do during crisis times when people tend to be emotional and irrational.\u00a0 Today we began with <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">\u201cThe Top 6 Emotional \u2018Musts,\u2019\u201d<\/span> the things that I absolutely must do in order to not just get control of my emotions, but to build strong emotional muscle.\u00a0 And that\u2019s really what we want to do.\u00a0 That\u2019s the key to understanding emotions.<\/p>\n<p>We started the day by asking you to identify which you are:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you a <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">feeling, acting, thinking<\/span> person?<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you an <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">acting, feeling, thinking<\/span> person?<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you a <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">thinking, acting, feeling<\/span> person?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why it\u2019s important to identify.\u00a0 You cannot feel your way into acting, but you can act your way into feeling.\u00a0 And the feeling that you get from the right actions that you take, then become the motive and motivation to continue the pattern.\u00a0 And when you become a thinking, acting, feeling person over time, you build emotional muscle.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">six musts of emotional strength<\/span>.\u00a0 Look at these and see where you stand.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">bully<\/span> my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">body<\/span>.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">master<\/span> my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">motivation<\/span>.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">watch<\/span> my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">words<\/span>.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">manage<\/span> my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">money<\/span>.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">take control <\/span>of <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">my time<\/span>.<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I must <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">restrain<\/span> my <span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">responses<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be an exciting series and it was great to see so many new faces today at The Gathering.\u00a0 These are truly exciting times.\u00a0 If you know someone who can benefit from this series, just send them to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/davidfosteratthegathering\">iTunes to subscribe<\/a> so they can have them downloaded straight to their iPod or computer .\u00a0 At iTunes they can get a video or an audio version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today @ The Gathering we began a brand new series entitled, \u201cMastering My Emotional Monsters\u201d what to do when you don\u2019t feel the way you want to. I\u2019m always sad to see one series go, in this case, \u201cChasing Balance.\u201d What a great time we had discovering the seven positive principles that you can apply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-october-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering &#8211; October 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}