Freedom from Thoughts of Violence By Separating Who We Are from Wha...

Freedom from Thoughts of Violence By Separating Who We Are from What We Think #197

How do we separate what we think about from who we are and why is this beneficial for helping us feel good about ourselves, about the people around us?

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Freedom from Thoughts of Violence by Separating Who We Are from What We Think #197

This helps me a lot, especially when I have thoughts come up that I don't like, for example, a thought of violence.

I don't like those thoughts and for years I had lots of thoughts of violence, but when I had a thought of violence, I believed that that thought reflected on who I was, and when I see that the thoughts I have are not a reflection of who I am, then there is nothing to feel bad about. Not only that, the thoughts I have are an opportunity to help and connect with other people.

Last night, I had a thought of violence in bed and I went into that old habit of actually entertaining it and thinking about it a bit, and then I felt ashamed and that was the cycle that I used to go through.

When I was sitting in the classroom in high school that was pretty much what I did all day off and on throughout high school. I'd think some thought of violence, I'd entertain it, like, “Yeah. That's more interesting than this class,” and then I would feel bad about it like I'm some awful person.

Freedom from Thoughts of Violence By Separating Who We Are from What We Think