Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I want to share with you today something that's dangerous, but you would never guess is dangerous

because often it's wrapped dressed up as virtue, as concern, as doing the right thing, as being responsible.

And it's simply this statement.

I'm going to put it in the past tense because it's easier to understand

when we're looking back at our lives,

looking back at our experiences.

And it's simply this, this statement,

this energy within us I thought I was right think about this I thought I was right

think about this I thought I was right we're gonna fill in some blanks here in a moment, but think about how much suffering has been caused in your life, how much stress by you thinking, having this maybe fixed regimented thinking on a topic.

So for example, maybe you were, again this is unconscious, we're not doing anything with the intention of

harming ever, right? But maybe you thought you were helping someone when perhaps you were

slightly interfering.

I know I've been responsible for that.

Maybe you thought you were absolutely right about something and you were certain and you were

unbudging on it and anyone who didn't disagree with you didn't have time for.

And then over time maybe you thought gosh perhaps I wasn't so right about that. I wasn't so flexible in my thinking. Maybe you thought, oh, I thought I was doing the right thing

when I, when this thing had to be this certain way. Maybe a project at work, maybe even how a vacation is planned, maybe even how you host a small event at your home, right? I thought I was, I thought I was, I thought I was doing the right thing, I thought

I was helping, I thought I was showing up in the right way, I thought I was delivering what was

needed. What about I thought I was doing the right thing by living in the same city as my family even though they drive me crazy?

Right, when can you look back in your past and know that in the most good-natured way you thought

you were doing the right thing? By being something, by doing something, by having something, by acting a certain way, you thought you were doing it right.

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