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Now, turning that statement around in three ways, consider how the following are as true, or truer. The gist of The Work is simple: Believing your thoughts often leads to suffering. This means suffering is optional, because your thoughts are not always true. You can choose not to get swept away by your thoughts. The human mind is constantly processing the world around it. Each day is a non-stop barrage of thoughts, questions, and observations. Joseph Nguyen is the author of the #1 international bestselling book, Don't Believe Everything You Think, which has been translated into 31+ languages.
Oftentimes, these are “should” thoughts. (e.g. “The world should be different,” or “My significant other should act in a different way.”) When examining one of your thoughts, the first consideration is whether or not the thought is valid. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to help with this:
When you stop believing everything you think, you give yourself the opportunity to be more proactive, and live the life you want to live. The Work” of Byron Katie is a process of inquiry that helps you identify and question the thoughts that cause you the most suffering. Now, if you find that your thoughts aren’t valid or aren’t helpful, you’ll want to replace them with better thoughts. Here are some questions you can use to help with that:
Most of the time, your thoughts are just a story you tell yourself to make sense of the world. It’s all based on your interpretation of the world around you. Not some universal truth about reality. He is a writer who helps others realize who they truly are beyond their own thinking and conditioning to live an abundant life free from psychological and emotional suffering. Note the thought with gentle curiosity, giving it a one-word descriptor. (Along the lines of, “Ah, I see: Fear.”) If all of these thoughts were empowering, non-stop thinking wouldn’t be an issue! But far too often, thoughts lead you astray, bring you down, or obstruct your ability to do things that you care about. To avoid this scenario, you can equip yourself with the tools to deal with these thoughts more effectively. Suffering is Optional (Two Strategies to Let Go)
Don’t Believe Everything you Think
The fundamental truth that gives you these powers is that your thoughts are not always true, so you don’t have to believe them. Don’t Believe Everything you Think The irony of this situation is that everyone talks to themselves all day long. You just don’t verbalize this dialogue, so it isn’t heard by others. That’s it. Don’t believe everything you think. Our default setting is to simultaneously believe and embody the thoughts that we have. But the thoughts that we have are sometimes wrong, unwise, or unhelpful. So we should not automatically buy into them, and we should not automatically use them to guide our behavior. Is it Valid?
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