living in now

ridinghood57:
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beautiful days

aren’t only sunny

learn to appreciate

all the days

a beautiful rainy day

a beautiful foggy day

a beautiful cold day

there is no growth

without the challenges

you will live

trapped

in trivia

until you learn

to let go

to see even the huge things

as small in the context of eternity

and just learn from your past

instead of permanently

camping in it

quotemadness:
“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.”
— Philip Arnold

this is the task

this is the key challenge

this is life

or misery

this is the path

walk it

ruthlessly

relentlessly

unapologetically

observing, identifying

challenging, countering thoughts

as you see the distortions

make your mind

your servant

trausel:

why does this work?

why do you actually need to tell yourself these things?

because your subconscious doesn’t know

how to judge what’s true or false, real or delusion.

you tell yourself constantly

that it’s hopeless

that you don’t know

if you will get through this

or even that you won’t

that you’re not ok

that you’re never going to be ok

now think about how you feel

the fear, anxiety, even

extreme vigilance, guardedness

that you live in all the time

the stress internalized, sublimated

into your body

your shoulders, your neck

or your stomach, your head(ache)

your subconscious self

takes all of those things you tell it

as the absolute truth

and tries to cope, live

in the reality you’re painting

goodgirlsdoresearch:

understanding your emotions

means you can trace them back

to the thoughts behind them

seeing the thoughts clearly

means you can examine them

analyze them, find the cognitive distortions

challenge them, counter them

and see your emotions follow

into healthier and better places

just because you think it

doesn’t mean it’s true

just because you feel it

doesn’t mean it’s real

or accurate

own the fact

that you could be wrong