Aug
13
2017
Get out of your head
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.–Seneca
We all have tons of things rattling around inside our heads all the time. These include:
- Irrational thoughts
- Worries
- Ideas for work
- Family obligations
How often do you write these down or organize them? How often do we say these things out loud to ourselves, a friend, etc? This is a hard thing for many, but it is very valuable.
Speaking or writing down our thoughts does a lot of good for us.
- It forces us to organize our thoughts and bring order to chaos.
- It helps us to see things objectively
- It clarifies our fears, worries. It also takes away the power of many fears because we can look at it as a third party.
A nightmare is a good example. No matter how terrifying, the first thing you notice when you talk about a dream is that it is very difficult to make it a coherent story. It is usually disjointed, lots of random images, etc. (remember, this all comes from the same place as all our other thoughts). It can be very frustrating. You also find that it not really scary as we first felt.
This is true of all the stuff that lives under the rocks in our lives. As soon as we expose them, they lose their power over us. Give it a try. Tell someone about a fear you hold on to or write about it. See if it doesn’t lose some of it’s power.
