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