Jumping to Conclusions – Fortune Telling (DW#497)
Fortune telling is when we jump to conclusions and make predictions about the future – predictions which are most likely to be negative.
If we lose our job, for example, we may predict that we will be broke and poor for the rest of our days. If we have a bad experience in a relationship, we may assume that we will never find love or settle down.
As you can imagine, fortune telling can make us quite miserable about things that may never happen! Instead of being realistic that various different outcomes are equally possible, fortune telling convinces us that the outcome is bound to disastrous, even though the opposite may be just as possible.
So the next time you notice yourself fortune telling about yourself or others (hint: as parents some of us are rather skilled at telling our children’s negative fortunes if they don’t follow what we tell them!), challenge yourself to consider other possible outcomes in the future.
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