Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness