It has enabled me too yes. I noticed today during my lunch break at work that my mind was very clear and enjoying my surroundings while going for a walk came effortlessly, where recently I’d been repeatedly returning to worrying about various problems and challenges. Unlike my previous attempts to stop worrying, this feeling good went ‘all the way down’ instead of a pseudo-feeling good sitting on top of a layer of uneasiness.
In this case the key was that since I am looking at how I am ‘being’ instead of targeting ‘feelings’ as something outside of “me” the potential reward was much higher. Basically the ‘upside’ of not worrying was much higher because it was a holistic genuine feeling good that was on the table. The ‘this is my only moment’ was higher stakes since there was something more valuable I was aiming at.
I think that the non-genuine feeling good I was targeting previously was also harder to reconcile with doing my job well, where as the genuine feeling good didn’t seem in conflict, which is something I am going to keep looking at going forward.