Don't Believe Everything You Think

by Joseph Nguyen

The narrative you are living can be changed at any time because it is being written in real time—by you.

You are not a problem to be fixed but a human who is meant to be understood.

“Thought is not reality, yet it is through thought that our realities are created.”

we all have different beliefs we are projecting onto what we are observing.

Our feelings come not from external events but from our own thinking about the events.

how we feel will look like an inevitable, unchangeable reality until we recognize the role that our thinking plays in creating it.

Thoughts are intrinsically neutral. But the moment we begin thinking about our thoughts, we get taken on an emotional roller coaster.

As soon as we begin to think about our thoughts, we cast our own limiting beliefs, judgments, criticisms, programming, and conditioning onto them.

It’s not what we’re thinking about that is causing us suffering but that we are thinking.

Although our minds crave certainty, our hearts desire freedom.

fear cannot and will not kill you. Yet if you listen to it, it will take the life of your dreams instead.

Although our fear will tell us that we are afraid of external things, such as a negative event, really what we fear is how we imagine we’ll feel if an undesired outcome happens. Fear is internal, not external.