1. Is it true?
Yes.

2. Can you absolutely know that it is true?
No.

3. How do you react when you think that thought?
I want  to pillory them. I want everybody to know that they lied. I want everybody to know the truth. I judge them harshly. I see them as immoral.

With the thought: disgust and separation.

4. Who would you be without the thought?
I would be relaxed. I would hear people lie and I wouldn’t have a story about that. I wouldn’t condone it but I also wouldn’t judge them harshly or talk about them to others.

Without the thought: peace and being relaxed.

Turnarounds:
People should lie.
- That’s reality. In this world people lie. Sometimes.
- Sometimes that may be best for their or mine or other people’s path in the long run.
- Often it takes courage to be honest, even to themselves.

I shouldn’t lie.
- I have. So if I think others shouldn’t, how even is that?
- Yeah, I live that. Honesty is one of my most important values. It is for me to live.
- Sometimes I am lying to myself by telling myself I can’t do that or I am too weak, not smart enough, too big – stories that are just not true.

I notice how I don’t really believe this thought. Interesting.