When something out of the ordinary is going happen soon, how do you think about it?
Do you think about everything that may go wrong?
All the reasons to be worried?
Does it seem to you to be implicitly bad?
Does it entice you with opportunity?
Do you wish it were over?
Do you wish it would happen right away?
Do you wish it would never happen?
Are you sure nothing will go right?
Are you certain it will be interesting, no matter what else happens?
Shakespeare wrote, “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” (That’s Hamlet, talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, FYI.) The way we think about what’s happening in our lives colors those events, creates them good or bad, reflecting our own thoughts. If I have a habit of dreading something I haven’t experienced before, I’m creating the reality of my current bad experience, and possibly of the event I’m dreading, as well.
There’s a voice in most of our heads, most of the time, providing a constant running commentary about what’s going on and how we feel about it. The question is, do you believe the voice? Do you trust what the voice says to you? Do you have to rely on its interpretation of what’s going on?
Could you be better served by a voice that asks questions, that reserves judgement, that shows curiosity?
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