Blunt Force Truth: The stories the mind creates can have the power to destroy you–or liberate you.
Because the mind loves to fill in gaps. When it doesn’t know, it’ll just make stuff up to make you feel fulfilled gathering information, whether it’s right or not. It’ll filter through confirmation bias to give you exactly what you want, so watch out what you focus on sometimes!
The mind just loves to create stories about stuff that happened… or didn’t happen. About what was said or wasn’t said… or what was meant when it was said. Maybe just a misread text. Sarcasm goes over so well over texts! Right?
Here’s the thing: The mind’s just doing this to stay busy. Imagine catching yourself every time your mind begins telling you a story.
Now, put a stamp on that story that says ‘for entertainment purposes only!’
Then you can just watch it like a sitcom show. Let it play through, laughing at the crazy shit the mind can come up with. Cry with it too. Just let it play through like a video reel. For entertainment purposes only.
When you allow your emotions to flow, you free yourself of the bondage those feelings once held. You take away its power. You just flow and observe. The emotional charge is gone! And the learning is still there…
So just remember if something comes up, put a stamp on it!
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