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Hey friends!

Just wanted to pop on and drop a quick email today.

The reason that I’m making it so short is because I want y’all to KEEP IT SIMPLE.

I recently had a profound realization of sorts. It’s something that I’ve “known” for a while, but that I wasn’t putting into ACTION.

That something is using any kind of negative feeling or judgment as the KEY to freeing myself in this moment.

As silly little humans we have a tendency to overcomplicate damn near EVERYTHING when SIMPLICITY is almost always the answer.

A few weeks ago I had the profound realization about the game that my mind is always playing.

That game is this:

• Judge the situation in front of me as “wrong” or “bad”

• Get fearful about future “possibility” that isn’t happening right now

• Ruminate on that thought until I feel confused and anxiety ridden

• Rinse and Repeat

So I decided to take a step back. I said to myself:

“Damnit I’m done with this game. My life is amazing and the only thing making it “Not” amazing is me getting hooked and feeding into the game my mind is playing.”

When I step out of the belief and redirect my attention to the present moment, THERE IS NO PROBLEM…Like EVER.

I’m literally making it all up.

I made a vow to myself on my birthday that for my 37th year on planet earth, my only desire was to use any kind of negative emotion or judgment as a tool of excitement & opportunity to FREE MYSELF in the moment.

The two biggest strategies that I’ve been using to do this are to notice the feelings and judgments as soon as they come up when they’re still small and just relax my sense of awareness around them.

Then to befriend them and ask what they’re trying to teach me and redirect towards the opposite of “insert negative emotion” which is how I want to feel.

I wrote a thread about these techniques and several others you can use here:

These feelings of negative emotion are our FRIENDS simply misunderstood. They’re coming up as OPPORTUNITIES to release these negative emotions so that they aren’t gumming up our systems anymore.

USE THEM as such and remember KEEP IT SIMPLE.

As always, Much Gratitude to you ALL!

Cole

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