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Upsets are never caused by what happens

When you get upset, you close down inside. You get tunnel vision and lose your ability to see clearly. All you can do is fight, resist, hang on and withdraw. You destroy love and make your situation worse. Upsets are very destructive.

If you could be free of your upsets, you would be very effective. You would see life clearly and could see what needs to be done. The first step in accomplishing this is to discover that upsets are not caused by what happens. They are caused by fighting what happens.

To see this in your life, find a time when you were upset. Didn’t something happen? Didn’t it happen no matter how you felt about it?
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