Posts tagged self-sabotage
Acting out and lashing out can help you discover yourself

Links

  • Explore the community: http://khayrab.com/community

  • The Mental Meanderings of Waseem.Space podcast - Home of the 3rd Cultured: https://waseem.space/podcasts/

  • The Diggin'It Podcast (Arabic): https://waseem.space/the-diggnit-podcast/

Discussion

  • Shoulds and how it gets us to suppress our feelings/needs

  • Examples and our experiences with acting out and lashing out

  • The right way to learn about your values, who you are, and what you should present about yourself (spoiler: there is only a right way)

Exploration

How do you lash out or act out?

What's the pattern you see?

What does it tell you about your values and what's important to you?

Who are you?

Links

  • Explore the Community: http://khayrab.com/community

  • Sarah Alamoudi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahhealthpsy/

  • The full video conversation: https://www.khayrab.com/blog/i-am-off-social-media-3

Discussion

  • The inherited caveman mindset

  • The chessboard metaphor of "what if"

  • Thoughts are thoughts, not positive or negative

  • The quickest way to find out who we are

Exploration

  • Notice when your mind creates noise. What happens around you? What happens within you?

  • Bonus: Can you let it play in the background?

Why you don't build habits you say you want

There's something that happens between remembering the habit you want to build and returning to the habit plan... It's evil! Don't fall for it!

Teachings

  • Why we've been talking about our minds for the last 3 Saturdays

  • Being a "helpable" person

  • Should: Self-judgement, fixed mindset, closed mindset, survival mindset, defensiveness

  • Could: Re-remembering and re-returning... Harder than it sounds!

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