Speaker: Vince Klassen
Everyone has one: the scroll that never really ends, the show that autoplays into the next one, the project that always needs one more hour, the busy that keeps you too busy to notice what you’re avoiding. It works, until the day it doesn’t, and whatever you built it to outrun is still sitting there waiting.
There’s an old story about a group of people who couldn’t sit with their pain either, so they built a statue of a calf out of gold to make the feeling go away. We all have our own version of that Golden Calf.
This Sunday we’re looking at what ours actually is, what it’s been standing in for, and how we deal with what we’ve been trying to make go away.
Come find out this Sunday at 10:30 at the Spiritual Gym.
AI Prompt: I think there’s an emotion I’m avoiding instead of working through, and I want help finding it and naming what I use to distract myself from it. Walk me through this one question at a time. Don’t give me the whole list at once, wait for my answer before moving to the next question. Start by asking me when I last felt something rise that I didn’t want to sit with. Then help me find the actual emotion itself and name it. Check whether there’s a second emotion riding along with the main one, since feelings often travel in pairs. Once we’ve named the emotion clearly, help me name the distraction I used, whether that’s overthinking it, scrolling my phone, staying busy, joking about it, or something else. Then help me come up with a plan to use that distraction less and feel the emotion more.
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