The Pleasure Cure

Very often therapists ask their clients to do the following exercise: Imagine that you are watching your funeral proceedings. What would you want people to say about you? The goal of this exercise is to get people to focus on what they want in life.

I got to thinking that maybe the more helpful and empowering exercise would be to decide what negative things I would want people to say about me. We all know we can’t be perfect; there has got to be an area that we suck at. Of course there is good and bad in everything, I know that. But, there has got to be some area in life that we pay less attention to.

When I tried to think about the negative qualities I wanted to own in my life, I was stuck. It was really difficult to choose my preferred negative qualities. And the truth is I haven’t chosen yet. But, I think that once I do choose I will feel empowered. Just think about it. Every time someone criticizes me for being incompetent at looking pretty, for example, I will be less likely to feel bad because I purposefully made the choice of not attending to beauty.

Contemplate which of the following you will choose to suck at: relationship, financial, intellectual, emotional, and physical.

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