Podcast Excerpt:
Katie: How do you advise people to deal with negative emotion? What do you like to do with that?
Leslie: What do I like to do with it? I never like to do anything! But when I catch myself and I realize I’m reacting to this negative experience, I’m having a lot of emotion around this… First of all, I give myself some GRACE and I choose to believe that everything we need is STILL being orchestrated.
That is one little tweak that I discovered years after working with these principles and practicing and testing them. Just blowing it for a day isn’t what kills the dream seed. What blows it is when you kill it for a day and then you think: “Oh man, I killed it.”
Katie: And then it’s done.
Leslie: And then it’s over. So instead, I have my bad day and say, “Whoa! Okay, I caught myself. You know what? I know there is a seed of equal or greater benefit in this nasty, ugly thing. There’s something here for me to find, so I’m going to choose to look for it. I’m going to go back to letting myself see what I’m really trying to create.” I let myself see it, experience it for a minute to change my feeling, and then I can know that what was pulling away from me is now on its way again. Listen here… |