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1/ Here is a thought exercise that can change your life:
Imagine you wake up and someone else is in control of your body.
This someone is everything you want to be: cool under pressure, courageous under fire, charming when social, motivated when needed.
But here's the catch…
Imagine you wake up and someone else is in control of your body.
This someone is everything you want to be: cool under pressure, courageous under fire, charming when social, motivated when needed.
But here's the catch…
2/ This persona has taken over your consciousness, but he has inherited your body,
including your brain & all its traumatic memories, negative thoughts, anxious feelings, & bad habits.
So he feels bad just as you did, but it seems foreign, so he asks: why is this body so weak?
including your brain & all its traumatic memories, negative thoughts, anxious feelings, & bad habits.
So he feels bad just as you did, but it seems foreign, so he asks: why is this body so weak?
3/ So now this superhuman persona has to operate this old body-mind. But he trains it along the way.
When you(s) feel lazy, he notices it, and tells you to get up.
When you(s) feel anxious, he feels it too, and defuses from it to carry on.
Adapting, improvising, overcoming.
When you(s) feel lazy, he notices it, and tells you to get up.
When you(s) feel anxious, he feels it too, and defuses from it to carry on.
Adapting, improvising, overcoming.
4/ The trick is that this he can look at your thoughts, feelings, sensations, & memories, validate them,
but because they feel foreign, he recognizes they are NOT HIM.
They are incompatible with who he is.
So he can see them objectively & ignore them (or listen if helpful).
but because they feel foreign, he recognizes they are NOT HIM.
They are incompatible with who he is.
So he can see them objectively & ignore them (or listen if helpful).
5/ With training, the negative thoughts & feelings become less frequent, & the bad habits become replaced with healthier coping mechanisms.
So this someone, this foreign consciousness, then becomes the native you.
You finally become the person that you were always capable of.
So this someone, this foreign consciousness, then becomes the native you.
You finally become the person that you were always capable of.
6/ This may like a silly game, but it's exactly what extraordinary people do.
Create an ideal persona, step into the new you, while ruthlessly rooting out everything that is not you,
to create more and more internal alignment over time.
As I always say:
Unite dream and day.
Create an ideal persona, step into the new you, while ruthlessly rooting out everything that is not you,
to create more and more internal alignment over time.
As I always say:
Unite dream and day.
7/ This thought exercise is based on the principle of "self-as-context" in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) that I practice and train psychiatrists in.
For more, join my substack ( http://doc.substack.com ) & check out my master thread summary on ACT: https://twitter.com/DrSepah/status/1141077761403936769?s=20
For more, join my substack ( http://doc.substack.com ) & check out my master thread summary on ACT: https://twitter.com/DrSepah/status/1141077761403936769?s=20
8/ Your ‘self’ is just a story. So...
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