Part 1
Byron Katie says, "You create your own suffering and you can end it. It's as simple as that." She goes on to say, "The Work is a simple, yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in your world. It's not our thoughts but our attachment to our thoughts that cause suffering. I don't let go of my thoughts, I meet them with understanding and they let go of me."
If you would like to know more about The Work, you can find this 4 step process at www.TheWork.com
So, what do we DO with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings?
Can you identify with any of these strategies?
Blame someone
Shame ourselves
Ignore them, deny them
Sedate them with food, alcohol, drugs
Overpower them with affirmations, positive thinking
Empathize with ourselves for having them
Psychoanalyze them, how did they get there?
Look to our childhood, which parent imprinted it on us
Join groups with others that haven't figured it out either
Kill them by suicide
Use them as an excuse
Attempt to scream loud enough that they will go
Talk endlessly about them
Get depressed that we have them
Self help herbs and supplements to cure or equalize them
Tap them away
Breathe them away
Pray them away, hand them over to a higher power
Hypnotize and reprogram them
Interrupt them through aversion therapy
Distract them with TV, computers, shopping, gambling, etc.
In all of these strategies there is one common denominator: You.
(meaning me too of course) An endless loop of what I call circular chaos because the thinker and the thoughts don't leave the loop. I know because I keep running into the same ones over and over even if the story is different.
(If) change can only happen in present moment (in the juiciness of the feelings and thoughts) wouldn't it make more sense to address it in the present moment? Please read that again.
Not tomorrow, not at the next therapy session. Many strategies can be helpful for more understanding "about it" but I doubt it will change much unless you catch it in it's own energy.
(What if) the next time you experience an uncomfortable feeling connected to an uncomfortable thought, you make the choice to STOP. JUST STOP.
Breathe. Create a space.
Stop so that it doesn't reinforce the habitual pattern even further. Be willing to feel the pain or discomfort. Be willing to recognize in this moment, in this space you are free to make a choice. Willing to take responsibility and be transparent to yourself or another. Willing to be in unknown territory. Willing to be still. Open to inclusion vs exclusion. Breathe.
Or not, it will come back around again in the loop.
It's up to you...you put the meaning into everything that happens. What will you put in the space that you have chosen to create?
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~ Dr. Seuss
Byron Katie says, "You create your own suffering and you can end it. It's as simple as that." She goes on to say, "The Work is a simple, yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in your world. It's not our thoughts but our attachment to our thoughts that cause suffering. I don't let go of my thoughts, I meet them with understanding and they let go of me."
If you would like to know more about The Work, you can find this 4 step process at www.TheWork.com
So, what do we DO with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings?
Can you identify with any of these strategies?
Blame someone
Shame ourselves
Ignore them, deny them
Sedate them with food, alcohol, drugs
Overpower them with affirmations, positive thinking
Empathize with ourselves for having them
Psychoanalyze them, how did they get there?
Look to our childhood, which parent imprinted it on us
Join groups with others that haven't figured it out either
Kill them by suicide
Use them as an excuse
Attempt to scream loud enough that they will go
Talk endlessly about them
Get depressed that we have them
Self help herbs and supplements to cure or equalize them
Tap them away
Breathe them away
Pray them away, hand them over to a higher power
Hypnotize and reprogram them
Interrupt them through aversion therapy
Distract them with TV, computers, shopping, gambling, etc.
In all of these strategies there is one common denominator: You.
(meaning me too of course) An endless loop of what I call circular chaos because the thinker and the thoughts don't leave the loop. I know because I keep running into the same ones over and over even if the story is different.
(If) change can only happen in present moment (in the juiciness of the feelings and thoughts) wouldn't it make more sense to address it in the present moment? Please read that again.
Not tomorrow, not at the next therapy session. Many strategies can be helpful for more understanding "about it" but I doubt it will change much unless you catch it in it's own energy.
(What if) the next time you experience an uncomfortable feeling connected to an uncomfortable thought, you make the choice to STOP. JUST STOP.
Breathe. Create a space.
Stop so that it doesn't reinforce the habitual pattern even further. Be willing to feel the pain or discomfort. Be willing to recognize in this moment, in this space you are free to make a choice. Willing to take responsibility and be transparent to yourself or another. Willing to be in unknown territory. Willing to be still. Open to inclusion vs exclusion. Breathe.
Or not, it will come back around again in the loop.
It's up to you...you put the meaning into everything that happens. What will you put in the space that you have chosen to create?
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." ~ Dr. Seuss
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