When Thoughts Cause Stress: Steps on the Path to Mindfulness
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~Charles Swindoll
The notion that how we feel is directly caused by events around us, or directly involving us, is a scourge of our modern times. To believe that the external world and its perceived relationship to us is the major determinative factor in how we feel (“I can’t believe he/she said that to me—that’s so outrageous!”) is disempowering and self-destructive.
We impose our “shoulds” on what we perceive as “the world out there,” and then when it fails to live up to our arbitrary and …
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