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Low mood and hard feelings
Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.
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2 practicesTheme · Question the thought
How long you have · Five minutes
When · Any ordinary day
Notice the standard you are holding yourself to, then ask whether you would hold anybody else to it. If what you blame yourself for happened when you were a child, ask honestly whether a child could have carried that.
Shame usually rests on a rule that was never said out loud, something along the lines of I should have known, or I should have stopped it. Written…
Picture somebody you love saying this exact thought about themselves. What would you say back, and why is none of that available to you?
Most of us are far kinder outward than inward, and the kind version is usually the more accurate one as well as the warmer one. Say your answer to…