You aren't your thoughts
Continue with 3 guided steps.
Creating space
Let's start with an awareness exercise to create a space for discomfort.
Values Guided Action
Each day, you'll be prompted to choose one action that's consistent with your values that you'll commit to taking that day. Make sure it's realistic and achievable, so start with something small. Once you've made your commitment, carve out time to honor it. Then when you're back into the program the next day, you'll have an opportunity to check in on it. No one can honor their values 100% of the time. If you miss an opportunity, you can take some time to reflect on any barriers you encountered and each day you can set a new values-guided action to work on.
How our thoughts bind us
In the last lesson, you learned that you can’t choose all your thoughts and therefore aren’t responsible for all of them. But you can choose how you respond to your thoughts. You can decide which ones to listen to and which ones are unhelpful. Your work is to notice the unhelpful ones, then let them go or disobey them. This lesson will help you look at your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations from a different perspective — to see these as just experiences and nothing more.