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I remember reading this and I was like “Wow, this could really have been me and it IS me!!”
Let’s see what I’m talking about…
Ready?! Go!!!
This is SO GOOD!
Byron Katie tells a story about going into a bathroom, meeting a woman on the way out, and finding the toilet seat wet…
She’s filled with anger and imagines the former occupant is a horrible & dirty person…!
Then while cleaning it up, she flushes, and the water shoots right out of the toilet. It was wet because it was damaged, not because of the other person…!
Katie tells this story to remind us how quick our minds are to tell us stories that explain what we see… and how often we just don’t know.
We make so many assumptions that make us sad or angry!!
How is this true in your life?!
Can you see how you find yourself getting to assumptions very quickly?!
Our mind really goes to imagine the worst right away!
But there is a solution to this!
The way to go is to simply pay attention to these thoughts when your brain offered you them.
For example, in Byron’s story, she thought “This person is dirty, this person is so rude!”
The very first step as you can see is to simply become aware that you HAVE these thoughts!
It doesn’t mean that it’s real, it doesn’t mean that our assumptions are the reality! 🙂
They are simply an INTERPRETATION of reality!! Of YOUR reality!
Which again, this explains why we have different interpretations of the same situation: You’ll probably ask a guy, he would not have paid attention that the water splashed over the seat!! Right? 😉
Your brain cannot be trusted!!
From now on, think about this little story and remember, always, that it’s not because you THINK something that it’s necessarily TRUE! 🙂
Your brain likes to be right!! It will simply offer you thoughts according to what you believe to be true! In this story, that it’s disgusting to dirt the seat like this!
But maybe something else is true!
Why does it matter actually?
Because you’ll probably get very mad and angry in your head… About something that isn’t actually like this!!
That person didn’t dirt the seat on purpose!!
AWESOME story no? Honestly! 🙂
In summary…
As you can see, you can question any story your brain is serving you…
It takes practice because just imagine: You’ve been thinking something for so many years, it’s normal that it’s not going to change in a minute!! But you can definitely slowly slowly LESS believe your brain and double check what you’re thinking…
I read somewhere that “people take more care of their cars than of their minds”… There’s some truth to this right? 🙂
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