#147 of 366: Your Mind Is Not Your Friend, The National, Phoebe Bridgers

First post from my phone! Let’s hope this works correctly. I’m in Addison after finally getting my Joanie going for the riding season! Michael and I have been hard at work putting new tires on and getting her buttoned up and today was the first ride!

Looking forward to putting some miles in this summer/fall.

Anyhow, Michael’s partner Erin is like, the biggest fan of The National and their spoken word sound. She’ll be super stoked about this post.

“Your imagination is in an awful place, don’t believe in manifestation, your heart’ll break, don’t you understand, your mind is not your friend again, it takes you by the hand and leaves you nowhere, you feel it in your nerves, it’s choking out the sun, you try in vain to be persuaded that it’s nothing”

It’s easy to go down that rabbit hole of negative thought spiral. In The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, author Mark Manson talks about The Feedback Loop From Hell.

Essentially, because we have the luxury to be able to think thoughts ABOUT our own thoughts, we can catch ourselves being anxious about something and then get even more anxious because we are thinking about how bad it is that we are anxious in the first place. It’s a bad place to be.

So, no one wants to be there. You can train yourself to avoid it, but it’s not easy and will take a while to understand how much control you really have over your own daily happiness. Once you do though…so much can change. Take control!

BGDG!