Transcript
The drill I'm going to introduce right now is called another thing and this is going to be a five minute introduction explanation on the purpose of the drill and the format of the drill and how it may help you. Um So the format of the drill is what's one thing that currently makes you feel this emotion? What's another thing that currently makes you feel this emotion? What's another thing that currently makes you feel this emotion and so on and so forth? And the idea is to fix an emotion. So it could be sadness, could be joy could be anger could be whatever it may be and to try to rotate through possible context that are contributing to it. So I think very often in life say for example that if we're feeling angry, we can sometimes associate only one context with that anger. I am angry because this person did that. Okay, is that the sole source of the anger? I often believe it's not, I believe that many times it's coming from multiple different parts of our lives. Um That one emotion can have multiple derivations or multiple sources. And so the idea with this drill is really to drill down into that is to try to explore, a particular motion to break us out of almost the fixed mindset that we have this one thing that is causing this one feeling. So for example, if I'm feeling angry sometimes it's because somebody showed up late for lunch, but it could also be because I got stuck in traffic on the way there. It could also be that I didn't sleep that well in the previous night because I was worried about being late. It could also be that um, I lost a deal for business, you know, maybe a client fell through. And so there could be multiple things that were happening even that day, but even longer term, you know, perhaps in the past somebody showed up late repeatedly in a relationship. And so I got so tired of it and frustrated, but I was angry that I wouldn't speak up and say something about it. And so the idea is not. So the idea is to try to find multiple sources that are contributing to this emotion. So that, you know, sometimes it's very hard to resolve the one conflict that's in front of us. Maybe it's again somebody showing up late for lunch, maybe it's very hard change that they showed up late one we could express to that person, but maybe some things are very much outside of our control, but there are other things that are inside of our control that we can address. So for anger, it's maybe about addressing or approaching, but for different emotions, maybe it's about relaxation, it's about helping to see that there are multiple things that I could do, that could contribute to me feeling more relaxed if that's how I do want to feel. Um so there's lots of different ways. I think that we could take this drill um that those are some of the purposes that I see behind it is to just explore that we have this one. Feeling associated with so many other contexts, I'm realizing five minutes, maybe a little long. So I'll cut this 3.5. And so yeah, I would say explore it to try it and see if there are some things in the drill that can illuminate this idea for you. But also, I'm curious to hear if there are other answers or other reflections that you have using the drill and how it's helped you in different ways. So this is about three minutes, 45 seconds. And yeah, I hope this was helpful. Thanks.