Get Your Self-Talk to Ground Zero and Save Your Life

You're reading Get Your Self-Talk to Ground Zero and Save Your Life, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world. -The Talmud Everybody gets impatient, everybody. But sometimes, that self-impatience crosses a line, and it becomes toxic. I know all about it. I’ve been living it, so here’s the benefit of some hard-won (and still winning) experience. The Problem Recently, I saw a friend post a message on social media to the effect of, “Your past is just a story, don’t let it upset you.” Or, “Don’t worry about the past.” He wanted to make people feel better, but missed an opportunity. We have a chance to characterize the past, no matter what it was, to have meaning, significance, and ultimately, a positive mental and emotional outcome. Reframing Reframing is the useful and healthy practice of changing the “frame” or context of something. If you’re like me, a trauma survivor, your ego’s last ditch defense of self-criticism frames everything, large or small, negatively. And, even now, years of therapy later, with sudden uplift and emotional breakthroughs, I still get impatient. Here’s a “clip” of internal conversation: “Lars, you know what’s wrong at this point, get going!” “Get going,” is really, “What’s wrong with you?” Or, “Why haven’t you w...
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