Rob Dial

And so that's the first thing.

You have to understand that about your mind.

The second thing...

I really want you to ask yourself this question, jot it down, put it in your phone, whatever you have to do.

Ask yourself this question, what is actually true?

This question can change your life.

I don't say that as like, just like a little thing, like it really can.

Because when emotions rise, your brain starts stacking stories, right?

One thing happens and then your mind suddenly creates 17 different catastrophic scenarios.

That's exactly what my mind was doing Saturday morning in the beginning.

so you've got to slow yourself down you've got to breathe you've got to get yourself back to this present moment you've got to ask yourself what is objectively true right now objectively true not what am i afraid of or what story am i telling or what could happen or don't fall into a case of the what ifs what if this happens what if that happens what if this happens what is true in this moment truth regulates the nervous system because most of the time

We're in this moment and we're just living in pretty decent, perfectly fine present moments.

And we are creating so much suffering in perfectly fine present moments by letting our brain create fake futures and catastrophizing.

So we've got to bring ourselves back to this moment.

What is actually true?

Lesson number three, your nervous system teaches your children how to live.

Everybody is picking up on everybody else's nervous system, whether you realize it or not.

This one hit me hard in that moment because my son was sitting on my lap.

right?

His back was against my chest.