Stop Turning Feeling into Fact // MIND 029

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Emotional reasoning is a negative thinking pattern that can best be described as the process of turning feeling into fact. We cannot control how we feel but we can control what we do with these feelings and when we turn our feelings into fact we can find ourselves in a made up reality. Being aware of when you engage in emotional reasoning can help you shift out of this way of thinking and bring you back into a position of knowing that a feeling is sometimes just a feeling.

LESSONS:

Emotional Reasoning: When we turn our feelings into fact. Try to catch yourself when “I feel XXX”, becomes “I am XXX” : such as, “I feel incompetent” becomes “I am incompetent.” Remember to tell yourself that a feeling is just a feeling, or use the phrase, “I’m having the feeling that I am incompetent” so that you get separation from the emotion.

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0:00.0	Stop turning feeling into fact.
0:03.0	Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, Chief Mind Doc for Spartan Mind Mind, part the Spartan Up Podcast Family, where every Wednesday I bring to you
0:17.3	intention and purpose in clearing that junk out of your mind so that you can show up in your life and the way that you're looking to.
0:24.9	So today we're talking about what's called emotional reasoning.
0:29.9	Emotional reasoning is what we call a cognitive distortion right so basically a
0:33.6	negative and distorted way of thinking and emotional reasoning is when you turn
0:39.0	feeling into fact so I'm going to give you two really easy examples of this. One is you're at a business
0:45.5	meeting and all of a sudden you're feeling a little bit in doubt about yourself and the feeling
0:50.9	of insecurity comes up and in your head the thought begins to be,
0:55.0	gee, I feel stupid.
0:57.0	Well, then I feel turns into I am,
1:00.0	and you begin to say to yourself, I am stupid, right?
1:04.0	Or let's say you just signed up for your first Spartan race
1:07.3	and doubt is beginning to sort of flood your world a little bit
1:10.7	and you have that feeling again of insecurity or uncertainty and it's I feel like
1:16.0	I'm not going to be able to complete the race. Then I feel turns into I am and you begin to
1:22.2	believe I'm not going to complete the race.
1:25.1	So that's what's called emotional reasoning.
1:27.0	It's when we feel something but we turn it into fact.
1:31.1	And it's problematic because often we can feel things but they aren't necessarily
1:35.6	a fact. I'll give you another example. I do not like flying in planes and when I'm in a plane,
1:41.1	I feel like it's going to drop out of the sky.
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