In the midst of this challenge, who do you choose to be?
Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi death camp wrote, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
2/ When you start thought-blaming, there’s not enough space between stimulus and response, in Viktor Frankl’s terms, for you to exercise real choice.
3/ How do you react to difficult moments?
Do you rely on autopilot responses, saying something sarcastic, shutting down and avoiding your feelings, procrastinating, or walking away?
4/ Or are you able to unhook and step out of that difficult situation to observe your emotions without judgment?
5/ What stories do you tell yourself?
Factual observations can slip into the realm of opinion, leaving us hooked.
6/ The dubious, not-always-accurate stories we tell ourselves create a conflict between the world these stories describe and the world we want to live in—the world where we could truly thrive.
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