Welcome to Changeable. This is episode number 268. This is all there is. You're tuned in to Changeable with Dr. Amy Johnson. Changeable podcast is all about breaking habits, ending anxiety, and the ironic way change really works. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Hey there. Welcome back to Changeable. Today's episode is actually an excerpt from a little school big change call that happened in March of 2023. It was in our spring six-week course. It was the beginning of a call from the six-week course, so not from our graduate community, but on those calls, I often just talk a little bit to kick things off. So that's what I'm sharing with you today. So in this, I talk about how everything that shows up is just what's showing up. It's what's here. Notice how much the mind says, this isn't it. This isn't it. I need to be different. I need to be better. I need to hear something else. I need something different to show up. I don't know why I feel this way. I felt that way earlier. There's this constant search in the mind, only in the mind, for something else, as if there's something else. There is nothing else. Every feeling about something else, every experience of something else is a thought, because that's the only place that something else exists is in thought. It's make-believe. It's make-believe. So we're sitting here now fully in this experience, right this very instant, and this is all that exists. And our mind will paint a picture of before or later or something else. And then we're so identified with that picture that we start to believe, oh, there really is something else. This really could be different. Or I really could go back to how I was, or I really could change in the future. But those are stories. That's a thought. That's not the reality. The reality is only ever hear this right now. So I talk about that here in the context of helping people who were coming to a course to be changed, kind of see how their progress is going or their thoughts about their progress. And I hope it's helpful. Before we go into questions, I'll say a little bit about what I was wanting to share. Thinking about how kind of like these phases in a sense that I think we go through when it comes to, I don't know, being human, like coping with life, seeing how things work. It kind of feels like there's an initial phase where it really looks to every human, like the things that happen out in the world create our experience where we are, we're just at the whim of what happens in the world.