Learning #1 - The Art of Detaching: A Guide to Letting Go of Negative Thoughts and Emotions
Learning of the day: Sometimes you want to let go, but for some reason you keep "clinging" to one idea, person or even your ego. Clinging means holding to something or someone tightly . Here are some steps you can follow that might help you detach from it: 1) Identify what is bothering you. Maybe your friend didn't show up to your party, for example. 2) Now, lets go inside your mind. Let's identify what is the belief that is causing the stress. What is the idea in your mind of how things should be. For example: Good friends care about each other and communicate honestly and directly . 3) Now, lets try to exaggerate it and generalise it and make it as strict as possible: Good friends ALWAYS care about each other, ALWAYS communicate honestly and directly, there is no exception, it has to be like that. 4) Next step, lets focus on creating arguments against your previous sentence. We dont want to destroy it because that rule made us who we are so we just want to make...