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# [76: How to Create Thoughts and Feelings That Serve You](https://johnpoelstra.com/thoughts-feelings-serve-you-76/)

This riff explores the power of thoughts on feelings and how asking better questions yields better thoughts.

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## Highlights

- Considering the idea that our thoughts create our feelings
- [The Life Coach School Podcast](https://thelifecoachschool.com/podcasts/)
- [John Prendergast](http://listeningfromsilence.com/) on the [Coaches Rising Podcast](https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/) (highly recommended)–[Opening to Inner Knowing](https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/opening-to-inner-knowing/)
- [In Touch: How to Tune In to the Inner Guidance of Your Body and Trust Yourself](https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Inner-Guidance-Trust-Yourself/dp/1622032071/) by John Prendergast (quoting from pages 33 and 34)
- The power of the negative stories we tell ourselves and how to free ourselves–go for the opposite
- Is a story *true* or is it *serving* you?
- What’s the story you tell about yourself that holds you back?
- What could be easy?

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- [Hallon](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Christian_Bjoerklund/Skapmat/christian_bjoerklund_-_skpmat_ep_-_01_-_hallon) by Christian Bjoerklund
- [Cold Funk](http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100499) by Kevin MacLeod
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