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#134: 'The Myth of Normal' and getting unstuck (ft. Daniel Maté)
It's Not Just In Your Head
The Fine Line Between Positive Thinking and Stress
There's this thing that exists in, I guess it exists in British culture or just any sort of capitalist culture of staying positive as it were. The power of positive thinking is also predicated on your attitude creates everything and it's an individualistic assumption. But ultimately, thinking is neutral. If you're going to call something positive or negative, that's a value judgment. We've been brainwashed into confusing the two. It's a pretty stark line, I think, between acceptance and tolerating. Accepting accepts all parts of the situation, including the fact that this is fucking intolerable.
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