(September 30, 2017 at 10:42 pm)Joods Wrote: That sounds like excellent advice. Now for me to learn how to actually do that. Years of being subjected to negativity has not helped me at all. None of this happened over night so I suppose it will take years to undo all of the damage.
A very basic level of mindfulness meditation -- sitting quietly and just taking inventory of the kinds of things you think -- is one place to start. Once you've identified particular culprits, for instance a tendency to dwell on a certain person, or something that happened last week, or some feeling from the distant past, you can study it in a disinterested way and ask questions like "Why is this important to me?" or "What can I use this for?" or "What's the best way to resolve this and let it go?"
