No more need for willpower, coping, re-framing, processing, getting triggered or anything of the sort. Just one day you notice that you reacted different... without even trying.
And then imagine that keeps happening permanently.
THAT ^^^ is the kind of freedom I wanted from every kind of negative reaction I had—both big and small. Because those automatic, gut reactions and instincts had led me into several addictive behaviors, bouts of depression, manic mood swings, and sometimes suicidal thoughts.
I honestly felt like I was somehow born defective.
That I wasn't good enough and would NEVER be good enough, no matter:
how hard I tried
how much money I earned
how handsome I looked
how well I could fight
how intelligent and well-informed I was
how many scriptures I knew or alms I gave
The list could go on.
But the thing is... that BIG one only rose the surface here and there.
It was all the LITTLE reactions I had all day long that seemed to build until finally it was too much to handle. I would be managing, functional, "alright", and then I simply wouldn't be. So, among all the things I was learning about how to train the body itself to calm down and quit reacting, I also knew that I needed to somehow train my mind to stop bringing all of its baggage to the surface as well.
Or even better... to simply let it go for good.
This amounted to four years studying and training with an old-school mindfulness teacher (not the new-age stuff, but the original version straight from the teachings of Bodhidharma himself). Then came some of Byron Katie's work, Garrett J. White's Wake Up Warrior approach, Adlerian psychology focused on ascertaining the telos of the action, the Lefkoe method and more.
What I was left with, for the most part was 1 of 2 things:
A way to simply challenge the story in my head
A way to create a "better" story.
But the thing is, I didn't want a "better" story. I had read early in life that "the truth will set you free."
So that's what I wanted:
The Truth
Just like the truth set me free of believing in Santa Claus anymore—writing him letters, worried he might be watching me, believing he was the one magically coming down the chimney we didn't have and stashing gifts under the tree instead of simply my parents—I wanted the truth of reality to set me free of the little stories that caused me trouble.
What I ended up with is called the Reality Check™.
It's a series of questions designed to take ANY reaction (even positive ones if you don't want them) and systematically disintegrate the mental process that's creating it.
Plus, it even comes with a brain-dead simply way to test how strong the reaction is and how much progress you've made in getting rid of it.
And after a lot of finesse, work, and practice—doing hundreds, if not thousands of these on my own for years—I started using it with others as the primary way I help them train their brain to quit making the automatic assumptions and reactions that have been driving their moods and behaviors.
Coupled with the physical work I teach, this is the one-two punch that gives you back the keys to your life PLUS the ability to teach your brain and body to work FOR you instead of against you.
This in-depth training (newly updated) gives you to keys to finally start being in charge of your brain instead of it running old programs that no longer serve you.