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Hi and welcome back to Radio Headspace. It's Eve here and it's Wednesday. We're making it through the week.

The other morning I was rushing around my house trying to squeeze in some house chores before my meeting started for the day.

You know, put some laundry on, feed the dog, tidy up breakfast, pay a bill.

Anyway, I was trying to do too many things and then boom, my toe smashed straight into the doorframe and the worst pain shot through my body, feeling that my foot actually might fall off.

So there I was, writhing around in pain on the floor, shouting at the doorframe, shouting at my husband, even shouting at my dog Pedro because of course it was all of their fault.

Now I'm using the example of a stub toe but it really could be anything. Maybe it's stepping on a piece of Lego or walking into the dishwasher when it's open, cutting your fingers, spilling a drink.

Whenever these things happen they can often hurt but what happens afterwards and I'll use my example of the stub toe is we can actually prolong the pain.

You know, it's the chair's fault, all the door frames fault, all the tables fault or whatever stubbed your toes fault and then everyone around you is to blame and then further still, anyone you come into contact with is also potentially a fault.

And then if anything goes wrong in your day, you can almost certainly link it back saying well if I hadn't stubbed my toe or walked into the open dishwasher, none of this would have happened.

You know, my whole day is ruined and why do these things always happen to me?

Even to the point where you get to the end of your day and you're still carrying that sense of frustration with you, like the world has kind of been against you.

Anyway, in that moment when I'd stub my toe, I thought to myself, hang on, we've been here before.

You know, that was not my first stub toe rodeo and there are two ways this can go.

Do you A, continue down this path of blaming everyone around you?

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