Get Some Distance
Our emotions take precedence in our own problems due to our narrow viewpoint.
- If we imagine that instead of us, it's someone else whom we are advising, we may have a more objective suggestion.
- Talking to yourself in the third person also puts us in a witnessing mode.
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