7 Ways to be Totally Okay, Exactly Where You Are Right Now (intro)
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So. You guys know by now what we do here. Identify and work on the real root cause of every problem — your thoughts.
And when people start realizing that their thoughts (and not the situation) are the real problem, they often want to jump to one solution: Great! Please give me a new thought to think and teach me how to believe it!
And that is awesome work to do! No issues there at all.
But there are really two halves to all of this work.
One half is coming up with and believing a new thought about your situation. This is the sexy half. This is where you “do the work” and “make yourself feel better” and “see the world in a new light.” This half is great!
The other half is reacting to the old thought and feeling when it continues to pop up in your brain. People forget about this half. Or they think something is going wrong when this happens — they think they’re “failing thought work” if they’re not thinking perfect thoughts and feeling amazing all the time.
We’ve talked a lot about new thoughts to think and how to believe them.
So in this series, we’re going to zoom way in on the “unsexy half” of thought work: being totally okay with being exactly where you are, right now.
Even if it’s a thought you don’t agree with and wish you could delete.
Even if it’s a feeling you want to run away from.
Even if it’s a bunch of actions you totally, totally hate.
Because there’s a massive difference between being totally in an old thought and feeling, and believing it, and running with it, and living that experience 100%…
…and watching an old thought and feeling play out, and deciding how to react to it.
Because no matter how intense the “old thought and feeling” is in your brain and in your body…
(and guys, as someone who experiences literal, physical pain flare-ups because of some of my strong emotions, I know how intense it can get)
…you can always carve out a little slice of perspective. You can always create a tiny little perch in your brain for you to sit and watch what’s happening instead of being in the experience.
I’m going to show you how.