Do you sometimes worry that you're a bad person because of how you think or feel or feel guilty about your own thoughts and feelings?

If so, it's completely normal, but it's also unnecessary and I think misguided. This episode I'm going to break down why

and how to change that reaction to your own thinking.

Hello my friends. Today I decided that since we are celebrating the launch of

pre-orders for my book to the podcast I want to share an excerpt of the book

with you and it's all about the way that we evaluate our own

thinking and how we judge ourselves for it and then how we can start to unravel that instead. So in the book in chapter one I talk about

resistance, discomfort, and self-judgment as the three biggest barriers to

doing thought work and I talk about why each of those come up and what they do to our brains.

And then I talk about self-compassion as the antidote to resistance and discomfort and self-judgment.

And so I want to share with you what I say in the book about self-compassion.

I'm going to read you an excerpt here.

The Antidote to Resistance,

Discomfort and Self-judgment, Self-Compassion.

The best advice I can give you as you start to reprogram your brain is to practice bringing an attitude of compassionate

curiosity to everything you are going to uncover about yourself. But that's easier said than done when you've been raised to believe that your thoughts make you a good or bad person.

So we have to start the reprogramming with that assumption right there.

An important aspect of the model I am teaching you in this book

is that thoughts do not have moral value.

This is contrary to what many religions teach us,

which is that God is watching our thoughts and that we can

sin even just by thinking something quote unquote bad.

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