To lighten up about bad feelings, I have imagined bad feelings as wild horses. There's an angry horse, a resentful horse, blaming horse, sulky horse, cranky horse, grumpy horse, an irritable horse - you name it, there's a stable full of bad feeling horses. If I feel some disappointment over something that has happened, then I say to myself, 'Why did you climb on the disappointment horse? Get off it right now, because it's heading for more disappointment and you don't want to go where it's going'. And so I imagine bad feelings as w
To lighten up about bad feelings, I have imagined bad feelings as wild horses. There's an angry horse, a resentful horse, blaming horse, sulky horse, cranky horse, grumpy horse, an irritable horse - you name it, there's a stable full of bad feeling horses. If I feel some disappointment over something that has happened, then I say to myself, 'Why did you climb on the disappointment horse? Get off it right now, because it's heading for more disappointment and you don't want to go where it's going'. And so I imagine bad feelings as w