You can increase your sense of belonging all on your own, by choosing the lens through which you look at the world - a simple but pretty empowering practice.
This is such a lovely and helpful reminder! It's really cool how you caught your own negative thought process during your time at the festival and I'm glad you rediscovered your sense of belonging in that situation!
Your post had me reaching for my old CBT booklet and particularly the about negative thought spirals, it said: Situation --> Perception --> Emotion. It's not always the situation that makes you think these negative thoughts, but actually your perception of it that makes it so.
Rational Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis) says it's never the situation that causes us to feel a certain emotion, but the STORY we tell ourselves about that situation. I've told myself a pretty negative story about the 3 of Cups (probably my least favorite card in Tarot). I need to work on that. 😉
This is such a lovely and helpful reminder! It's really cool how you caught your own negative thought process during your time at the festival and I'm glad you rediscovered your sense of belonging in that situation!
Your post had me reaching for my old CBT booklet and particularly the about negative thought spirals, it said: Situation --> Perception --> Emotion. It's not always the situation that makes you think these negative thoughts, but actually your perception of it that makes it so.
Thank you so much for your lovely message, Louise! 🤗 Perception makes all the difference indeed! And today, I really needed that reminder. 💛
Rational Emotive Therapy (Albert Ellis) says it's never the situation that causes us to feel a certain emotion, but the STORY we tell ourselves about that situation. I've told myself a pretty negative story about the 3 of Cups (probably my least favorite card in Tarot). I need to work on that. 😉
I completely agree with the story being the thing that causes the emotional reaction, Janet!
But I also hope that you're kind to yourself on your way to uncovering new layers of the 3 of Cups (and your stories connected to it).
It's okay that it's not your favorite card and its message has been connected to some stories that you may no longer want to carry with you.
It's not a problem & you're doing great! 💛
Bless you. 🙏