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Melissa Sandfort's avatar

Another way of articulating this concept is that you can choose which part of you does the task.

Your day-to-day “Self” as you experience it may not be who wants to do these tasks, particularly if you tend to live from a more protected place in your personality. In IFS language, often it may be a deeper “Self” who would be better suited to do it.

Learning how to move the parts of you that don’t want to do it out of the way, in order to free up the parts of you who can do it, is a great skill to have!

Of course, this is easier said than done, but the capacity to switch between parts is exactly what IFS teaches. So if it sounds good, and you wish you could do it, the solution is to learn IFS (Internal Family Systems). For me, it’s been the missing link between self-help advice and the capacity to actualize it.

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Nikki Lampe-Nalchajian's avatar

I love this. Today I said, "I'm an actor playing the role of someone who delights in posting, no matter how people react." And I added, "I'm an actor who keeps her promises to herself." Thank you, Chris!

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