You Are Not Your Thoughts

By: Dr. Joseph Parent

Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent

While playing well in a tournament, we might think to ourselves, “Well, you’ve gotten away with it so far, but you’ll screw up before too long.” Believing in this thought gives it power. It creates feelings of doubt and anxiety, which interfere with our swing and produce errant shots. Eventually, the fear of failure becomes so powerful that our game is badly disrupted. It doesn’t have to be this way. If we look carefully, we can see that thoughts arise in our mind, but they are not our mind. By observing our thoughts and the feelings that precede and follow them, we can begin to experience a gap in the sequence of impulse-to-thought-to-action, and we can choose how to respond rather than automatically react.

©2002 Dr. Joseph Parent (P)2016 Audible, Inc.