Appreciation Going Wrong - Park Chahee series part 2 (1 Viewer)

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I once asked a friend, "What is the biggest failure in your life?"

He said, "In a couple of weeks I'm going to do this thing and it's not going to work out.

" You know what? He was right! It was the biggest failure of his life—not because it didn't work out, but because he took the time to feel bad about it ahead of time.

Many people use their imagination only to discover all the things that would make them feel bad, so they can feel bad about it now.

Why wait?

Why wait until your husband goes out and has an affair?
Imagine it now; see him out there having fun with someone else.
Feel as if you're there watching it all. You can make yourself hideously jealous, just like that.

How many of you have done that?

Then if you're still feeling terrible when he comes home, you can yell and scream at him and drive him away, so that it will actually happen.

Clients have come in and told me that they did this. I listen to them and I ask, "Why don't you make good pictures?"

"What do you mean?"

"Change that picture until you can see yourself there with him instead of that other woman. then step into the picture and enjoy all those good feelings.
Then when he gets home, make him want to do it with you." Do you like that better? People often talk about having "good" and "bad" memories; lt that's just a statement about whether they liked them or not.

Peopie will often say, "Later, when you look back at this, you'll be able to laugh." There must be something that you do in your head in the meantime that makes an unpleasant experience funny later.

How many people in here have something you can look back on and laugh at? ...

And do you all have a memory that you can't laugh at yet? ... I want you to compare those two memories to find out how they're different. Do you see yourself in one, and not in the other? Is one a slide and one a movie? Is there a difference in color, size, brightness, or location? Find out what's different, and then try changing that unpleasant picture to make it like the one that you can already laugh at. If the one that you can laugh at is far away, make the other one far away too. If you see yourself in the one you laugh at, see yourself in the experience that is still unpleasant.

My philosopy is: Why wait to feel better? Why not "look back and laugh" while you're going through it in the first place? If you go through something unpleasant, you would think that once is more than enough. But oh no, your brain doesn't think that. It says "Oh, you fouled up. I'll torture you for three or four years. Then maybe I'll let you laugh."

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

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