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TODAY'S LEARNING
End Negative Thoughts

A lot of what makes you unhappy is not the way things are in your life, but the story your mind tells you about them. That is a huge revelation.

This is called the second arrow in Buddhism.

The first arrow is about the bad thing that happened and how it made you feel. The pain we feel here is caused by things outside of us that we can't change (or avoid). We all get older, get sick, lose loved ones, get into fights, lose our jobs, go through grief, etc...

The second arrow is about how we think and feel about what happened. When we act in a negative way by blaming, shaming, avoiding, getting angry, or upset, we set off the second arrow of suffering. This second arrow is what makes us relive (and keep reliving) an experience that only happened once.

It's important to know that the second arrow's pain can be chosen. I want to make it clear that I'm not talking about scary things here. In that case, you might not feel like you have a choice. You might need professional help to change that.

So, we can't change the way things are, but we can change how we react to them. We can choose not to get stuck in a whirlwind of negative thoughts that aren't necessary and hurt our mental and physical health. Instead, we can use that energy to become more aware. When we increase our own power of awareness, our minds lose their ability to make us unhappy.

How to stop the cycle of bad thoughts?

• Recognize that certain ideas are harmful to your health; they serve no purpose and just make you unhappy.

• Get still and begin to watch your thoughts.

• Turn your attention away from your thoughts. When you do this, you take your energy/lifeblood (which is consciousness) away from your thoughts and put it into something else, like your body, your breath, or nature.

• When you take your mind off worries and useless thoughts and put it on your breath or the inside of your body, you connect with the oneness inside you. Thoughts will start to fade away immediately. Thoughts can't live without attention and consciousness, which are their lifeblood.

• Learn to keep dysfunctional thoughts at bay, not by pushing them out of your mind, but by being very aware and focusing on something else.

• Take a deep breath and feel your life. Remember that the story in your head is not you. You are the intelligence that runs through your body and keeps it together.

• When you do this more often, your power of being aware grows. The mind starts to lose its ability to make you unhappy and starts to help you become more resilient.

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