“You don’t experience anxiety unless you’ve attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple. You don’t ever feel anxiety until you believe that a thought is true- and it’s not.”
Byron Katie
Attached to a thought that isn’t true for you or believing a thought is true and it’s not.
I didn’t know that the anxiety was from lies, from believing in something that isn’t true.
What I guess we fail to notice is that there are false thoughts; untrue thoughts that we attach to and ride while anxiously holding on.
Which is why Byron Katie’s first question is, “Is that true, can you positively know that it’s true?” Then she asks, “Who would you be without that thought?”
What is the most amazing thing is that by believing or not believing our thoughts we can turn from suffering to not suffering, from anxious into peaceful.
Changing what we believe is all we can do, reality is as it is, it flows and moves and changes, it is in our minds all within our heads that we suffer the most.
Watch which thoughts you become attached to and how they make you feel?
When you are feeling anxious, search out the lie!
