Painting, a self disparaging picture of yourself will push…

Painting, a self disparaging picture of yourself will push away all your comfort and thus the cycle of self deception is resumed. Denial is your drug of choice

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

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A self-limiting belief — I am not capable, I am not worthy, I am not safe — is rarely examined; it just runs in the background, deciding what you will even attempt. Paint a disparaging picture of yourself and you push away every comfort, which deepens the very picture you painted. People will believe astonishing untruths to keep an old story intact — there are those who remember a parent's cruelty and have quietly relabeled it as love, because the alternative was unbearable. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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