Donald Trump is ruining the country
already. Is it true? Yes. Can I absolutely know he is ruining the
country already? No. Maybe he's dismantling an old way of being so
that something new can be created. Maybe he is playing a destructive
but necessary change agent.
How do I feel when I believe the thought that DT is ruining the country already? Immensely frustrated, fearful, helpless and enraged. The tension in my chest and across my arms is tremendous. I feel like lashing out at all the things and people I cannot control, most of all him. I am closed down. I resent the people who voted for him or for third party candidates, or who didn't vote at all. I resent the Republicans who gerrymandered and voter-suppressed. (Republicans gerrymandered and conducted voter suppression, is it true?) (Hell yes. Crap, I really have to do this one.) I am angry at a huge chunk of my fellow Americans, and that is painful. Very painful. I terrify myself with the story of the future that I tell. I feel trapped. I lose touch with any happiness, joy, peace, beauty or delight. My sense of humor is gone. Everything is dimmed by a blanket of depression. It is a terrible thought with no hope.
Can you see a reason to drop the thought that DT is ruining the country already? Yes. It causes me a lot of suffering.
Who would you be in these early weeks of his presidency, if you simply couldn't think the thought that Donald Trump is ruining the country already? I would be much more peaceful and curious. Open, observant. Wondering what might happen next. Open to possibilities that aren't bleak. Taking care of myself. Being gentler with others.
Turn It Around:
Donald Trump isn't ruining the country already. No, he's doing things very differently than any other recent president, but that doesn't mean it has to end badly. The country is still running. In fact, it seems to be more compassionate and caring.
Donald Trump is fixing the country already. Okay. Well, lots of people are standing up for love, justice and compassion and that's a good thing. Maybe the TPP was going to be a bad deal for the average American worker. Maybe all the other executive orders will result in a better world, either because we are motivated to stand firmly and in great numbers against them, or because some of them end up helping us economically.
My thinking is ruining the country already. God yes. I can put us into nuclear war pretty quickly with my thinking.
My thinking is fixing the country already. Yes, when I see it clearly, and question it, I can liberate myself, and by projection, everyone else.
How do I feel when I believe the thought that DT is ruining the country already? Immensely frustrated, fearful, helpless and enraged. The tension in my chest and across my arms is tremendous. I feel like lashing out at all the things and people I cannot control, most of all him. I am closed down. I resent the people who voted for him or for third party candidates, or who didn't vote at all. I resent the Republicans who gerrymandered and voter-suppressed. (Republicans gerrymandered and conducted voter suppression, is it true?) (Hell yes. Crap, I really have to do this one.) I am angry at a huge chunk of my fellow Americans, and that is painful. Very painful. I terrify myself with the story of the future that I tell. I feel trapped. I lose touch with any happiness, joy, peace, beauty or delight. My sense of humor is gone. Everything is dimmed by a blanket of depression. It is a terrible thought with no hope.
Can you see a reason to drop the thought that DT is ruining the country already? Yes. It causes me a lot of suffering.
Who would you be in these early weeks of his presidency, if you simply couldn't think the thought that Donald Trump is ruining the country already? I would be much more peaceful and curious. Open, observant. Wondering what might happen next. Open to possibilities that aren't bleak. Taking care of myself. Being gentler with others.
Turn It Around:
Donald Trump isn't ruining the country already. No, he's doing things very differently than any other recent president, but that doesn't mean it has to end badly. The country is still running. In fact, it seems to be more compassionate and caring.
Donald Trump is fixing the country already. Okay. Well, lots of people are standing up for love, justice and compassion and that's a good thing. Maybe the TPP was going to be a bad deal for the average American worker. Maybe all the other executive orders will result in a better world, either because we are motivated to stand firmly and in great numbers against them, or because some of them end up helping us economically.
My thinking is ruining the country already. God yes. I can put us into nuclear war pretty quickly with my thinking.
My thinking is fixing the country already. Yes, when I see it clearly, and question it, I can liberate myself, and by projection, everyone else.
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