Your Daily Matrix and Hooks 1/2/25
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Hooks are memorable experiences that stick with you. They can feel satisfying (falling in love) or yucky (someone cuts in front of you in line). Hooks drag you inward, and you pay more attention to the hook and less to what comes in from the senses. They can be mesmerizing or tormenting.
You don't need to do anything with the yummy hook of looking back at a delicious holiday meal. It's those pesky yucky hooks like recalling a past argument with your important people that suck up your time and energy.
You might notice some hooks showing up if you are like Kevin and me.
(More about hooks below.)
Who’s important to you?
What’s your yucky stuff?
What are your relief moves?
What can you do for who’s important to you?
The We Matrix
What’s our shared purpose?
Is any social yucky stuff showing up?
What do you do to relieve yourself from the social yucky stuff?
What might we do to achieve our shared purpose?
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A bit more…
When the lure of anger (insert your strong, unwanted inner experience) flashes, you "take the bait." The struggle drives you deeper.
You can keep struggling and biting on what's hooking you or use the Matrix to "notice the hooks" showing up inside you and then notice what you do next. You can "have" the hook rather than "buy" it and see where you are heading. Am I moving toward what matters or scrambling for relief (which usually gets us more hooked)?
Since hooks are part of life, practicing noticing them is a great way to develop flexibility and change the game from taking the bait to swimming along.