Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 121 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

This is the second episode in the mini series about open-mindedness.

So if you haven't yet listened to episode 120 about being open-minded towards yourself,

then I highly recommend that you check that one out first.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking all about how to be open-minded during

difficult times and when experiencing potentially challenging emotions such as anger or sadness.

First of all, I thought I'd share a few little stories from my own life and I hope they might

show you the power of being more open-minded and what it can be like. So when I was a teenager,

I experienced a lot of emotions which challenged me and I tended to judge my feelings and

essentially talk myself into feeling certain ways. I actually kept a journal which makes it

really easy for me to look back and see all the ups and downs and my patterns of thinking

and what I was doing to add to my own experiences of stress and sadness. For example, when I was

14, I wrote, maybe I'm just an irrational, crazy person incapable of ever being happy for more than a

week because I don't build bridges and get over

them like everyone else does. I spend a lot of time crying. I try my hardest only to feel like I

fail in everything. I push unhappiness onto the people around me. I'm selfish and obsessive,

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