02/05/2018

How Hacking Your Mind Can Bring Intention Into Your Life

This is how you can observe your own mind

I know the exact moment I decided to become a therapist. I was eleven years old. For a long time, my life had felt fraught with anxiety, a temper, and an expectation of impending doom. There had been days when I refused to go to school. I wanted to stay home to protect my mom, because there wasn’t much trouble when I was there. I had been taken to see Dr. Moe, the guidance counselor, a lot. Those meetings were excruciating. Defiantly, I refused to speak, and I managed to survive elementary school in stoic silence. Because I had a hard time focusing, I was kept back in math.

In the middle of the sixth grade, my parents had split up and my dad finally left town. I was promoted to a high-level math class, which was no small achievement and reflected how much better I was feeling about life. It was the tentative budding of self-confidence. On the first day of my new class, Mrs. Dulfer was handing out papers with a scowl on her face. As she walked along the rows of desks, I realized she was handing out a test and I started panicking. Timidly, I raised my hand.

Mrs. Dulfer glared at me, “What is it that you need?”

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