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Tom Lipinski's avatar

Excellent post.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Dear Tom: I'm so glad that it resonated with you and that you got valued out of it!

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Kisane Slaney PhD's avatar

This is so helpful Magdalena - a real clarification. I’ve done the exercise, and felt a real shift. Thank you 🙏

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Dear Kisane: I'm so happy that you took action, experienced results and saw things shifting for you! Cheering you on, M

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Mary Belgrave's avatar

Much of your focus is on getting jobs or projects going; this is not my problem. I am pretty creative and get practical and artistic stuff done. But does your system work when tackling personal relationship issues? Much harder I think.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Dear Mary: I love this question! Let me answer by using and example. One of the readers recently shared that she wanted to have a better relationship with her mom. I'm not going to go into details of the her current situation but let's just say that they have been having a rocky relationship. Via the 20 min exercise she wrote out the scene in 6 month where she was having dinner with her mom and was able to have a heart to heart conversation. She included the question of what kind of daughter do I get to be? and in her description she engaged all the senses and made it so real that when I read it I was crying...hope that helps! Cheering you on, M!

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Mary Belgrave's avatar

Thank you, your advice chimes with Ixcarus who also writes about neuroscience here. His point is to change our identity if we want to stop self-sabotage. For example, a family member is always complaining and my reaction is to be brought down. Now I don’t “ try” not to care; instead I decide to have a great day despite of the behaviour because “that’s who I am”.

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veronica vee's avatar

This is important and gratefully received 🪷 i am an artist and will do this and report back, definite "a-ha", thanks for writing 🏵

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