Kudo's to your brilliant partner for introducing you to the idea of "Glen". And i quote: "...sometimes it’s just Glen, the energy eater, wandering through, looking for a meal.." For me that is the summation of a brilliant strategy as to how to deal with this night time mental cycling experience, (as it happens to all of us.) To personify it makes it more ludicrous and pokes fun at its unreality while at the same time bringing attention to how it leaks and leeches your precious energy to mentally cycle like this. Amazing! In my experience as an Initiator (truth teller), this would be called a "pattern interrupter".. Changing any pattern requires bringing more awareness to it, to interrupt the habituated neural "movie re-runs". Then the work of re-patterning begins, in this case, with observing that the thoughts and the emotions that they spawn, are both not only not useful but actually untrue and thus.not real. In the process of observing the pattern, you saw the pattern of using your thoughts to be mean to yourself.. to say things that were hurtful to your feelings and sense of peace. Once you caught that culprit red-handed, you were then set to make a NEW choice.. being kinder to yourself in your thoughts.. to not give them so much power..whatever frame works for you to interrupt and then discontinue the 'inner mean girl " pattern. I celebrate your awareness and am grateful that due to that awareness, you are being kinder and more gentle to your self to not push and demand that it behave in a certain way to be loved and cared for. Great awareness sleuthing, Cynthia!
Kudo's to your brilliant partner for introducing you to the idea of "Glen". And i quote: "...sometimes it’s just Glen, the energy eater, wandering through, looking for a meal.." For me that is the summation of a brilliant strategy as to how to deal with this night time mental cycling experience, (as it happens to all of us.) To personify it makes it more ludicrous and pokes fun at its unreality while at the same time bringing attention to how it leaks and leeches your precious energy to mentally cycle like this. Amazing! In my experience as an Initiator (truth teller), this would be called a "pattern interrupter".. Changing any pattern requires bringing more awareness to it, to interrupt the habituated neural "movie re-runs". Then the work of re-patterning begins, in this case, with observing that the thoughts and the emotions that they spawn, are both not only not useful but actually untrue and thus.not real. In the process of observing the pattern, you saw the pattern of using your thoughts to be mean to yourself.. to say things that were hurtful to your feelings and sense of peace. Once you caught that culprit red-handed, you were then set to make a NEW choice.. being kinder to yourself in your thoughts.. to not give them so much power..whatever frame works for you to interrupt and then discontinue the 'inner mean girl " pattern. I celebrate your awareness and am grateful that due to that awareness, you are being kinder and more gentle to your self to not push and demand that it behave in a certain way to be loved and cared for. Great awareness sleuthing, Cynthia!
Loved this share, Cynthia! It helped clarify my own "Glenn" and know we're not "alone" when this happens. Gratefully, Vyana