I discovered my sunglasses were missing when I reached for them as we stepped out of a shopping mall into the bright sunshine. I had taken them off to go into a parking garage and apparently forgotten to put them back in my purse before I got out of the car.
I groaned at the idea of walking the full block back to the car when we were about to start walking to the art fair, where we would be walking a lot for the next hour or so. I pictured the console where I often put them down when I temporarily remove them and decided not to go back.
To make a long story short several hours later when we went back to the car the sunglasses weren’t there. My self-talk became brutal. “I was lazy for not going back to the car. I should have been more careful. I was dumb for thinking they were in the car.”
I thought I had given up that type of self-criticism years ago. I didn’t expect to be triggered by making a decision that turned out badly, but I certainly was.
Within 5 minutes I was using the three sentences I teach in “Letting It Go,” to take my energy back from “this situation around losing the best sunglasses I have ever owned.” That worked. The self-talk stopped. Two days later I bought myself beautiful new sunglasses.
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