A Comedic Truth

 Anyone who has been to a therapist can relate to this MAD TV skit that still sticks in my memory from a few years ago.
 A big phrase repeated in one coaching school I attended was, "Don't be stuck in your story."  I don't exactly coach with that philosophy of making story wrong. Story is important. It's the "stuck" part of that sentence that I would focus on more.
It's hard to keep intellectualizing and trying to figure out why things happened to us....or how we can heal a past wound. Sometimes we can intellectualize a situation so often that we begin to feel like we're in a Woody Allen movie .
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just detach and "stop it?" Wouldn't it be nice if therapy cost $5 and lasted 5 minutes? That skit was ahead of its time.
It's those little things called feelings that make letting go difficult....especially when a current situation pours salt on a past wound.
So far, with a lifetime of experimenting with how to "stop it," I find Eckhart Tolle's philosophy of living in the now to come the closest to detaching, letting go and keeping on the path. But, as the skit says between the lines...it's simple, but not always easy.