Growing roots
Feb 25, 2021
Another thing that complaining does is that it "grows roots" for the problem. It solidifies it somehow. Makes it seem un-changeable. Fixes it in our consciousness as something permanent.
After all, our focus is on the disastrous nature of the problem in all its glory.
So try it: set a timer and complain for 60 seconds.
Describe all the ways the problem is a problem.
- How about the weather? That’s a great thing to complain about, isn’t it
- Because we have lots of opportunity to this.
- The weather in Canada, you know, awful.
- The winters are so long.
- It is sooo cold (it really is!!)
- Winter lasts half the year.
- The days are so short.
- The nights are so long.
- The roads are so icy.
- The traffic is so bad.
- It just snows and snows and snows ALL the time.
Feeling better yet?
No? Then how come we keep doing this?
Complaining about reality.
When we fight with reality, how often we lose?
Only 100% of the time, as Byron Katie puts it.
