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judge your partner?

In this moment, just look. What do I judge thatā€™s not good enough about them? Do I judge that they donā€™t spend enough time with me? Do I judge that they donā€™t tell me they love me enough? That they donā€™t appreciate me enough. Right? So look at what you judge them to do. And then notice that when you have that judgment; thatā€™s when loneliness comes. So, if you can see that then you can stop blaming them for your loneliness. It has nothing to do with whether they appreciate you enough, or how much they appreciate you. It only has to deal with whether you think about them appreciating you enough or not enough.

If you can see that, then you can come back to this moment. Oh, Iā€™m not missing anything. Itā€™s just these thoughts that are creating loneliness. Nothing else, itā€™s nothing to do with them. And when you stop judging them, youā€™re left with love for them. When you donā€™t believe youā€™re judgments about someone, whatā€™s left is love. Love is simply what remains when you donā€™t have judgments about others. So when you donā€™t judge your partner to be not good enough, youā€™ll feel love for them. And we canā€™t be lonely and feel love. We tend to think that somebody loving us will get rid of our loneliness, but it canā€™t. No matter what somebody else does that doesnā€™t get rid of our loneliness.

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In order to alleviate stress, you have to understand what causes stress

Hello, my name is Noah Elkrief, and in this video Iā€™m going to talk about what causes stress. The reason I want to talk about what causes stress is because many people that come to me for help with their stress seem to have a lot of misinformation about what causes stress. When we donā€™t truly understand whatā€™s causing our stress, it becomes very difficult to address the stress. We end up spending a lot of time and energy trying to change things that arenā€™t really causing our stress.

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What people think causes stress

The two things that people most often tell me are causing their stress are specific circumstances/situations and uncertainty. In other words, most people think that uncertainty and stressful situations cause stress. So, in this blog post, Iā€™m going to help you discover for yourself that thoughts create stress and nothing else. That neither uncertainty nor ā€œstressful situationsā€ cause stress, as if there was such a thing. On top of, that Iā€™m going to show you the exact thoughts that create this stress. But, nothing you read here is meant to be believed or trusted, because that wonā€™t provide much value for you. Rather, everything is meant to be directly discovered for yourself.

Why situations donā€™t cause stress

First, letā€™s look at a so called stressful situation, and examine whether it is actually the situation that causes stress. If you go to work at your job, and while you are there, you feel stressed, it seems almost obvious that the situation at your job is causing your stress. When youā€™re at work you feel stressed, and when youā€™re not you donā€™t. It seems so obvious. But, letā€™s look at the situation a bit more closely.

If some people can experience no stress in the same situation, the situation canā€™t cause stress

Certain situations seem to create stress. However, in order to claim that a specific circumstance creates a specific experience, it must always create that same experience, for every person, every time. For example, a flame creates heat. When anyone comes into contact with a flame, they will experience heat every time, for as long as they are near the flame.

The first question to ask yourself in order to discover that a situation itself doesnā€™t cause your stress is, ā€œCould somebody else be happy in this situation? Is somebody else that I know happy in this situation?ā€ Itā€™s almost always easy to see that ā€œyes, there are some people who are happy in this situation.ā€ Or ā€œYes, it is possible for people to be happy in this situation.ā€

If other people are happy in this situation, if other people are not stressed in this situation, then the situation itself canā€™t be creating the stress. If the situation itself created the stress then everybody in this situation would have to experience stress. But if thatā€™s not the case, then the situation canā€™t be creating the stress.

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If you have moments in the situation with no stress, the situation canā€™t cause stress

Another way to see that the situation doesnā€™t create your stress is to just ask, ā€œAm I stressed in every moment that Iā€™m in this situation?ā€ If we think that our work situation is creating the stress, we would ask ā€œAm I stressed in every moment at work?ā€ No, probably not. In some moments you enjoy it. In some moments you are stressed.

For example, you might not be stressed at work when youā€™re just talking with co-workers you enjoy, if youā€™re talking to a client that is enjoying what youā€™re saying, or you are just care-free in a given moment. If you can recognize that in some moments while you are at work, you donā€™t experience stress, then you can recognize that the situation itself canā€™t be whatā€™s creating your stress. If the situation was causing your stress, then you would be stressed in every moment that you were in that situation.

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If you can lose your stress by distracting yourself from thoughts, the situation canā€™t cause stress

If having a specific job was the cause of your stress, then as long as you had that job, you would be stressed. But, if you are stressed in a given moment, then someone sends you a link to funny youtube video, what happens to your stress? It completely vanishes for the moments that you are watching the funny video. Why does your stress disappear when you watch the funny video? Simply because the video is distracting you from the thoughts that were creating your stress.

If all it takes to stop feeling stress is to simply distract yourself from thoughts, then itā€™s clear that the thoughts must be creating your stress and not a particular situation. Can you see that? If all it takes to lose your stress is to think about something else, to put your attention on something you enjoy then clearly it has to be your thoughts thatā€™s creating your stress.

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Why uncertainty doesnā€™t cause stress

We tend to think that uncertainty creates stress. In other words, most people believe that when you are in a situation where you donā€™t what the outcome/future will be, that creates stress. But letā€™s dispel that myth for a second here. If somebody said to you, ā€œIā€™ll either give you a thousand dollars tomorrow or nothingā€, how would you feel? You might be stressed about whether you get the thousand dollars or not, right? And it seems as though the uncertainty creates the stress.

But now imagine someone said to you, ā€œIā€™ll give you a thousand dollars tomorrow, but it might be all twenties, might be all singles, might be all fives.ā€ Are you going to feel stressed about it? No. Thereā€™s uncertainty in the situation once again, but you wouldnā€™t feel stressed. So why not? The reason why you wouldnā€™t have stress is because thereā€™s no outcome we think would be bad. Thereā€™s many different possible outcomes. But since all of them are judged to be equal by our minds, thereā€™s nothing to be stressed about.

What causes stress is believing that one outcome would be worse than another outcome

Imagine that youā€™re going into a job interview where there are two possible jobs you can get. They already said to you, ā€œYouā€™ve already got the job. We just donā€™t know if youā€™re going to go into this division or that division. This is the interview to help us pick.ā€ If you really like one division and you really donā€™t like the other division, are you going to be stressed about the job interview? Of course. Because one outcome is labeled ā€œbetterā€ and other outcome is labeled ā€œworseā€.

But, what about if you liked both divisions equally, and you donā€™t know which one would be better for you. Are you going to feel stressed about the job interview? No. Why not? Because both options are seen to be equal. Thereā€™s uncertainty there, but since both options are viewed to be equal, and neither is viewed to be worse, thereā€™s no stress.

Uncertainty itself does not create stress. The only thing that creates stress is believing a thought that says ā€œa bad outcome is possibleā€. Broadly speaking, there are two ways that this shows up. The first way is deciding what outcome ā€œwould be bestā€, and then inherently considering every other outcome to be ā€œworseā€. For example, in a job interview example, we would think ā€œit would be best for me to get the jobā€, and every other outcome is bad.

The other time when we experience stress is when we decide that a specific outcome would be bad. For example: ā€œIt would be bad if I donā€™t get the job offerā€. ā€œIt would be bad if I donā€™t get this done in timeā€. ā€œIt would be bad if they break up with meā€. ā€œIt would be bad if I get hurtā€. When we think about an outcome that we think would be bad, we are creating stress. Any time we think a bad outcome is possible, thatā€™s what causes stress, nothing else.

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An easy way to see what causes stress right now

Please take a moment to think about the ā€œbadā€ situation thatā€™s creating your stress, or the possible ā€œbadā€ outcome that could happen. Tell yourself the story in detail and give it your complete attention. Picture the situation in your mind. Envision the scenario with all the relevant details. Think about how ā€œbadā€ it would be if this ā€œbadā€ thing happened. Look at every-oneā€™s facial expression, look at the background details, and give it all your attention. Take a few seconds to stop reading and imagine this now.

Now, how does it feel when you tell yourself this story? How does it feel when you think about it? What happens when you think about the stressful situation? Take a moment to look at how you feel? You feel tense, right?

A moment ago you likely werenā€™t feeling any emotion. Then, just by thinking, you began to experience an emotional reaction. Thereā€™s no situation here to create your stress. Youā€™re just reading a blog post. If you experience an emotional reaction right now, it must have been created by something thatā€™s going on right now. As soon as you began to give attention to the thoughts/stories about the future, tension or stress was created. The feeling of stress in your body is a direct reaction to the thoughts you just had, not any circumstance or event.

The only thing happening right now is your thinking. If as soon as you think about something ā€œbadā€, you feel the stress, then clearly itā€™s the thinking thatā€™s creating the stress and not the situation itself. Chapter 11 - It's Easy (Rules) (Part 1)
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