Beach Walk 601R - Making Up Stories

Amanda Congdon and Andrew Baron were experiencing some public disagreements regarding their video blog, Rocketboom. Gut feelings and instinct are great tools...except when they turn out to be wrong! So here's a catchy little concept I learned to help me step back from the brink of getting emotionally invested in situations before I know the facts: 1. Making up stories 2. Pretending they're true 3. Having feelings about the stories 4. Acting on those feelings It's human nature to speculate and have opinions. But consciousness is the opportunity to stop there, claim one's feelings as personal and subjective, and sit with all the discomfort that accompanies them without having to pretend that the hunches and feelings are facts. You can watch a wrenching example in The End of the Affair with Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, where he made up stories, pretended they were true, and the ending is tragic. P.S. We were traveling this week so please enjoy this Beach Walks Classic Episode, originally aired as Episode #134 and there are some good comments on that page. Hawaiian word: Hoʻomeamea: pretend