When your emotions are based on fiction, they control you because now you become a fiction writer

and your emotions start painting these vivid pictures of how bad everything is.

And fact will just shoot an arrow right through that. But we don't focus on fact.

Please focus on facts.

See, things are not getting worse. We're not getting better at seeing what the truth is.

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you'll find meditative story to be beautiful and transcendent. Now this topic today has been a

long time coming. I feel this is something that so many of you DM me about so many of you are

asking about so many of you are thinking about because there is just so much negativity around us.

We have to deal with so much negativity in the news at work in our families, in our friend

circles, in the news. It's a headline every single day. A headline that just breaks down our life.

It just makes you feel terrible and sometimes it makes you feel sick and sometimes it just makes

you feel sad and disheartened and depressed. And then you've got your family and your friends.

You've got gossip going on. You've got conflict. You've got people in your inner circle who just

don't see I twi anymore or maybe one of your friends has cheated on another friend and now you're

the one in the middle managing all of this conflict or maybe in your family. Maybe people in your

family haven't got along for years. And again, you're at the heart of it. You're mediating. You're

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