Why Are You Waiting to Feel Better?

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:24.7	So my question for you is, why are you waiting to feel better before you start living your life in a positive direction. A lot of you think,
0:45.1	ah, I just got to stop being depressed. Ah, I just have to stop being anxious. Ah, I have to stop
0:50.1	being upset about blah, blah, blah. No, no, and no. There are a couple of things we do when
0:58.3	we believe that. One is we just squash and try to ignore the feelings. Ah, if I don't have them,
1:05.2	yeah, but you do because they're squashed down and at some point they're going to come out your
1:08.4	ears and all your pores. This is not good.
1:22.4	This is not good. So that's one way of giving it because our mind is an amazing tool.
1:30.9	It's incredible what can't go on in there except that some of it is a mishmash.
1:35.6	I would really like to warn you about the mishmash.
1:39.4	So we can jam our feelings down, deny them.
1:40.6	I don't have them.
1:46.1	My gosh, how many times on this program have I said to somebody, you're not depressed, actually.
1:51.8	You're really angry and suppressing it down.
1:54.4	No, I'm not.
1:56.8	And after we talk for a while, the trigger happens.
1:59.0	You hear the tears and the hurt and the anger comes out.
2:02.6	So a lot of you are squashing, thinking, you need to do that to be okay and function in life.
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