What is really happening ...

If we can pause and recognise the true reality of what we are feeling or the non-reality of the story we are creating in our Mind, we can step away from denial. Denial undermines our ability to be free from suffering. Denying we are working too hard or not hard enough. Denying we are ill. Denying we are spending too much time on our phone or spending too much money. If we deny our own dissatisfaction, pain, anger and frustration we continue to suffer. In the same way if we deny our own values, beliefs and goodness we will continue to suffer.

So when we get caught up in that story in our Mind ask a second question ... "Are you sure?"