8.) How do we apply self-discipline in the following:?

Question

8.) How do we apply self-discipline in the following:
(Refer to James Chapter 1) Cite specific examples.
a.) Your mindset during hard times
b.) Handling temptations
c.) Control over anger
d.) The use/misuse of our tongue

Answer 1

i personally believe that its up to you to choose how you apply self discipline in any situation. sometimes you have to find your own path. sometimes someone close to you can help you.

Answer 2

self-discipline grows with experience and good use of knowledge of what is right and what is wrong.

i have many setbacks and as time passes, self-discipline is a matter of reminding myself not to do the wrong thing when a familiar event comes which might be hard times or temptations or anger or wrong speech.

1 thing i do when angry is to take a cold shower etc etc or when there is hard time coming, i try to share my woes with friends or family and ask them for help or when there are temptations, i try to meditate and focus on the right thing or when there is possible wrong speech, i think in advance of what i going to say and watch what i am saying and pray.

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Answer 3

Praying for God's guidance and strength.
Praying is more effective when you have full trust in God.

Usually, prayer is done through following steps:
a. Emptying the mind from worldly fetters.
b. Saying revealed prayers selected before.
c. Meditating to see the inspired options through those prayers.
d. Praying for thankfulness after seeing the solutions.
e. Taking action.
f. Praying again for success and thankfulness.

This is one of the revealed Prayers:
"Vouchsafe unto me, O my God, the full measure of Thy love and Thy good-pleasure, and through the attractions of Thy resplendent light enrapture our hearts, O Thou Who art the Supreme Evidence and the All-Glorified. Send down upon me, as a token of Thy grace, Thy vitalizing breezes, throughout the daytime and in the night season, O Lord of bounty.

No deed have I done, O my God, to merit beholding Thy face, and I know of a certainty that were I to live as long as the world lasts I would fail to accomplish any deed such as to deserve this favor, inasmuch as the station of a servant shall ever fall short of access to Thy holy precincts, unless Thy bounty should reach me and Thy tender mercy pervade me and Thy loving-kindness encompass me.

All praise be unto Thee, O Thou besides Whom there is none other God. Graciously enable me to ascend unto Thee, to be granted the honor of dwelling in Thy nearness and to have communion with Thee alone. No God is there but Thee.

Indeed shouldst Thou desire to confer blessing upon a servant Thou wouldst blot out from the realm of his heart every mention or disposition except Thine Own mention; and shouldst Thou ordain evil for a servant by reason of that which his hands have unjustly wrought before Thy face, Thou wouldst test him with the benefits of this world and of the next that he might become preoccupied therewith and forget Thy remembrance.
The Báb  
(Compilations, Baha'i Prayers, p. 149)

Pray for your inner peace and progress.

Answer 4

it's good to ask others and find opinions but it depends on you how you react.

BE PROACTIVE!!!

Answer 5

Do your own homework.

Answer 6

a) panic!

b) panic!

c) freak out!

d) cunnilingus!