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Originally Posted by Honeywith4bees  By Sunday morning, I was feeling really down again. Like there was no point in trying to "tame" the Gremlin, because there wasn't one after all. Just me. And me = loser. I was able to get out of the funk pretty quick because I consciously chose not to believe this particular line of thinking. |
You could do that because the Gremlin has no power to make decisions for you. It had no control of the situation, no matter how big the fuss it seemed to be making was. You don't have to be rid of the Gremlin, you just have to recognize that whatever judgment it's making is wrong and has no power to control you. The down feeling had no power over you, the thought that you were a loser had no power over you, and that's all that there is to the Gremlin; emotions and judgments. All of them lies.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you try to control yourself through your judgments and emotions. However, since judgments and emotions are not where control comes from, you will always be frustrated in such attempts. Good feelings and good thoughts do not create good actions. They may accompany good actions, but they have no power to create those actions. You create those actions. So your thoughts actually have no ability to create the problem that you've decided you have, because they have no ability to create any action. It's you that gives the problem life, not the thought, and it's you that can take that life away.