Rob Dial

All of the time, almost.

is not reality, it's projections.

And so your nervous system will start reacting to your mind, to your stories, to your assumptions, to your fears, to your worries.

Instead of what's actually happening in this moment,

And your body will pay the price for thoughts that aren't even real.

So you have to be aware of when your mind is causing your body suffering.

When it is bringing up... When you feel anxiety, it's 99.9% of the time your mind imagining a fearful future that's not happening in this moment.

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.