Monday, July 13, 2015

Quote: Do we tell ourselves the truth?

"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening ...” 
Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation 

Reality, Interpretation, perception, attitude, catastrophic thinking, embellishment, negative thinking, non-truth.

A path I think many go down.  Are you telling yourself the truth?  

I like to try and observe my thoughts - my internal dialogue - and hopefully catch myself when I'm making assumptions, being critical, using past events, thoughts and fantasy to fuel the path to living in a false reality.


They say we have 40-90 thousand thoughts a day;  how many are the same?  How many repeat a story that may not be true?  Are these thoughts serving you or the greater good?  


Today I will aim to be honest and remove judgement, expectation and assumptions.  I can more easily achieve this if I stay in the present moment.

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