Jay Shetty
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They were distorted.
They were negative.
They were experienced as unquestionable truth.
The thought arrives.
It feels true.
Therefore, it is true.
Beck's entire therapeutic revolution was built on one insight.
The thought is not the truth.
The thought is a hypothesis, and like any hypothesis, it can be tested.
Marcus Aurelius wrote in his meditations, You have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realize this and you will find strength.
Here's the immediate application.
It's three words, and I want you to use them every time a thought arrives that feels like an indictment.
Is this true?
Yes.
Not is this possible?
Not could this be true?
Is this actually, demonstrably, evidentially true?
And if you can't answer with concrete evidence, if the thought is a feeling dressed as a fact, you are not required to take delivery.
You are not your thoughts.