Breaking out of self-sabotaging cycles
There are certain situations that drive me into apparently endless loops of thought. Each thought tends to eventually lead back the original thought.
Here are questions to ask yourself when you get stuck in a head spin that you can't escape from:
What are the facts?
What's the story?
What can I be responsible for?
What do I choose to be responsible for?
What do I want to create?
What will take me forward?
One key idea is to accept that there are only two givens in any given situation--the facts and your interpretation of those facts.
A further idea is to do something to get present to what's so and be clear about where I want to go next.
These questions help me to get clear on that and get moving again.
How might you practice this in your life? What predictably triggers you into self-sabatoging thought loops? How will you remind yourself to use these questions?
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