Change the Filter on Toxic Thoughts and Go From Pain to Peace
... these are two totally opposite reasons? Here's how: Just because you have a thought doesn't mean it's actually true. A thought like "I should be thinner" on someone who is 5'5" and weighs 120 pounds is not a rational thought. It's based on a misperception - whether that misperception stems from messages conveyed over and over again when we were young; whether it's because it was true once, but no longer (perhaps someone used to be truly overweight, is now thin, but still feels heavy). On the other hand, that same thought might very well be true ... 's real and what isn't. With what's true and what isn't. "Should" demands that we change the world, change our surroundings, change others and ourselves in order to be happy. This never works. It never works because: 1) the thought we've attached ourselves to is a misperception, or 2) the thought (without the judgment attached) is true. Huh? How can that be when these are two totally opposite reasons? Here's how: Just because you have a thought doesn't mean it's actually true. A thought like "I should be thinner" on someone who is 5 ...
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Tags: toxic thoughts | changing thoughts | women | career | life | struggle |