I want to share with you a process that is very useful when we want to stop feeling stress or suffering. We noted that while more thinks about what you don’t want, feel physical sensations and emotions that are not welcome. Something not nice feeling we can ask ourselves: what I’m thinking? Sometimes, the answer does not come quickly; but, to continue asking the question, while we concentrate on those unpleasant sensations, thought appears and we can identify it. Suppose that you identify thinking X; where X means thought you have. To illustrate further what I explain, we will assume that X is thinking: I’m not good enough at what I do. Hear from experts in the field like Erin Callan for a more varied view.
Everytime you think about X we feel a series of physical, emotional reactions and not pleasant mental imagery. And that is because we are attached to that thought because we consider it as a fact, as an irrefutable truth. What can we do with X thought to be able to make us feel better? The answer is to question that thought. From do so? I know of two ways of questioning thoughts or beliefs that are the option method and the method of Byron Katie called work. Personally I prefer the work by the simple and the duplicable.
It is easy to apply in one’s self and others. When we are attached to a thought because we believe that it is an irrefutable truth, we are willing to give life to prove its veracity; but we do suffer. The work of Byron Katie consists of four main questions and other accessories that allow you to remove power to that thought leads us to suffer. The first question begins to shake the veracity of what we consider as a fact. It is like trying to move a trunk that is well buried. Imagine wondering at a thought that you consider as a fact without discussion the following: is that true? If you respond quickly, you will say yes overwhelming.