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  "description": "Everything is relative. Without change, there'd be nothing! 🫥",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T06:00:08.000Z",
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    "“Coming out of it is the high”Some words of wisdom from my favourite front man, Dave Gahan ☯️The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "I was running a group coaching session for the Daily Reminders Premium 🔖 crew the other night and among the topics we covered (which included money, parenting & helping others), we spoke about moods.\n\nSpecifically the hallowed process of moving from a ‘low’ one, to a ‘higher’ one.\n\nIn my response, we touched on this notion of ‘low’ and ‘high’ and how you can't really appreciate the existence of one, without the other. (Sounds overly philosophical, even as I type it, but it's true!)\n\nAnd then yesterday, I had my own example.\n\n## Outside-in masterclass\n\nI was in a foul mood in the morning. Snappy, impatient, disheartened, even despairing at one point. It looked pretty bad in there (the same as it always looks, to be fair – low moods are spectacularly uninteresting).\n\nAnyway, the day continued. It was a busy one. My wife's away for a week and I'm taking the child on a 2-day cycling tour, with luggage, which requires _muchos_ prep.\n\n🚲 🧳 🧽 🎒 🔧 🥖 🧼 🗺️ 🛞\n\nPlus queuing up Daily Reminders for while we're away.\n\nWhat's more, I had a full-on Focus Magazine article end-of-day-deadline to boot!!\n\n😳\n\nSo I felt overwhelmed and grumpy and basically like life was a bunch of crap that I wanted to have nothing to do with.\n\nOf course I knew it was _‘just my thinking’_ (about all of the above) but that's got nothing to do with anything in these situations, certainly not for me, anyway. (Your mileage may vary.)\n\nAnd then later in the afternoon, having finished writing the article in record time (_and_ being really pleased with how it turned out; ego-expectations _exceeded!_) I suddenly noticed what a great mood I was in.\n\nAnd the mind says:\n\n> 📦🗣️: _“Well, that's because you've written the article. Of course.”_\n\nAnd it kind of was. But it also wasn't.\n\nIt was a lot more obvious from the position of the ‘good’ mood, that I'd been properly caught up in a whole bunch of outside-in thinking about how busy my day was and how unfair that all was, and the mind's predicted consequences of not getting everything done and the like; none of which came to pass.\n\n(It's obvious that unnecessary worry is unnecessary when in retrospect the thing doesn't even happen! 😂)\n\nBut it was also obvious that the feeling-good wasn't so much about having _done_ the article, but more that all of the low-mood thinking I'd been doing had gone away.\n\nThat was the change. That was what I was feeling. The change. The difference.\n\nFor which I was profoundly grateful.\n\n☺️\n\n## What difference?\n\nWhen you read that, you might be forgiven for asking:\n\n_“Well, hang on Giles, if you can't ‘use’ the Innate Health understanding to get yourself out of a low mood, or even properly see that you don't have to worry like that, what difference does it make?!”_\n\nAnd all I've got for you—here and now, as I write, the next day—is that even though I was in the full effect of that low mood, I knew that's all it was, so I didn't take it too seriously.\n\n  * I _knew_ it would pass; that's what it means to be human\n  * I _knew_ it didn't have to stop me from doing anything that needed doing\n  * I _knew_ it didn't mean anything about me (or anything else for that matter)\n  * I _knew_ not to waste any time _thinking_ about this so called ‘low’ mood, thereby layering it up and making it worse.\n\n\n\nAnd I don't know about you, but that seems like quite a lot of difference to me!\n\nFor which I am profoundly grateful.\n\n💝\n\nGiles\n\nSIGN UP FOR THE DAILY REMINDERS newsletter\n\nWant to start __every__ day with helpful, insightful content like this? The Daily Reminder is a quick, lighthearted email that arrives in your inbox every morning, to help keep you grounded in reality, so that you get to __‘Think less, and live more.’__\n\n __“They feel like a moment of stillness in a world of madness.” ~__ Neil, UK\n\n __“One of those small things with big impact. Honestly, just sign up!”__ ~ Paula, UK\n\nGET YOURS NOW\n\n### Related\n\n“Coming out of it is the high”Some words of wisdom from my favourite front man, Dave Gahan ☯️The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft\n\nIt could be worse. You could be coming off heroin addiction.",
  "title": "Feeling the difference",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-18T06:00:07.877Z"
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