Since we're doing shadow work now, try this one: what if the reason you're being nasty to yourself is that there are no real, immediately obvious bad consequences to doing so?
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Would you talk this way to your friend? No, because they'd sulk and might even leave. And you wouldn't talk this way to your coworker either because, well, you might get fired. But what do you lose being nasty to yourself? You can't leave, and you can't fire yourself.
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Turn this around for a greater twisst: what if this is the way you'd love to treat everyone else, if there were no bad consequences to do so? What if this is who you are when you have absolute power?
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(if it's not obvious why I'm doing it to you/me- )https://twitter.com/fvathynevgl/status/1314482038624473088?s=20 …
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The usual advice goes "treat yourself as you would your friend". The crucial difference is that I *like* my friends, but I don't like myself, and I don't have much compassion either; I think I deserve what comes to me as a consequence of my actions.
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What if the reason you’re chill with treating your friends that way is you’re *okay* with them failing and burning up? You’re not out here worrying they’re going to screw up their life this way or now. You are for yourself.
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Variant: When your friends crash and burn, they'll only blame you for it if you were helping. When you crash and burn you don't have that luxury.
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