Dec 09 2019 13 mins 1
- Opposition in all things
- How often do you think you will feel good? – what percentage of time?
- What percentage of time do you think that you feel bad?
- What does it mean to resist feelings?
- When you resist feelings, you are not only denying yourself negative feelings that may serve you, if you feel them to their fullest for a short period, but you are likely also not able to feel positive feelings that may well serve you too.
- 50/50 rule is that half the time, no matter what, your life is, no matter who you are, you are going to feel negative emotions.
- We often feel like there is something external that is going to make us feel like we have “arrived”
- Truth is, that the guy who makes a million dollars a year has just as many down days as a guy that makes $35k
- The woman who weights 125 has just as many down days as the woman who weights 250
- We want to think that we will not have negative emotions because negative emotions are bad in our mind and that means that there is something wrong with us.
- It is a lie that people who have x don’t have negative emotions.
- Negative emotions are part of the package of opposition in all things.
- What negative emotions are you trying to avoiding when you are buffering with pornography or other things?
- What negative emotions are you creating when you buffer with pornography or other things?
- What positive feelings are you reserving for when you overcome your pornography use?
