Chapter 27
Reality Check
Awareness and care of our emotional state is more sustaining when paired with a balanced look at what’s really going on. Reality check is about using your reasoning mind to cut through the gloom of negative or naive stories to enable change and growth toward your values. Jordan K. Harmon’s discussion in chapter 26 of reality acceptance—not approval or resignation—as it is in this moment highlights how important these tools are. While Harmon’s reality acceptance comes from a mindfulness lens, the Sustain Reality Check tools are an actionable set of ways to find the reality that is hopeful, helpful, and motivating.
In her book The Future of Happiness, Amy Blankson writes that “the human brain receives eleven million bits ...
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