MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion and immediacy of current events.
Exercise:

Start with thinking about anything you think you have no control over. This can be as subtle or intense as a recurring thought about anything that won’t stop, or a chronic defensive reaction that seems automatic and consistently leads to troubled thinking about what is happening. In addition, look at any compulsive behaviors or attachment to having or needing more or less of something or someone else. Watch your experience. Begin to allow for the possibility you will never have any control over these occurrences, that there is absolutely nothing you can do about them, and that they are and will forever be a part of your experience, as their intractable nature will always define you. Conceding this genuinely will at first seem ridiculous and unusual, unnatural and unnecessary. Any genuine commitment to the disturbance will effect a sense of helplessness and hopelessness will often grow as your focus grows. Notice how your experience changes. Coming to terms with your experience and the nature of these seemingly intractable, permanent, stuck conditions can now be better seen as flexible. If you can make them worse you can make them better. But getting better and Being better are two different approaches. Getting better maintains the problem. Being better is the elimination of the problem. If the thoughts are made up so that we can change them and feel better or worse we can also notice it is in the making of them that this can seem the only possibility. If we can make them we can unmake them. Getting better is trying to overcome the thing we think and Being better is noticing it is only a thought and there is nothing to get over. They are only thoughts. Thoughts are only imagined. They only take on characteristics we assign to them. They are what we ask of them, want from them, and demand of them. They do not have a life of their own since they are assigned to govern the life form we’ve been given, that we effectively own, the body that we have, with the brain that has thoughts. We are free to think whatever we want. And when we think up conditions we feel condemned to it is only a lack of sense and sanity since insanity’s nature makes no sense. Choosing not to think insane thoughts can happen as quickly as we concede we are the chooser of them. Once we see how silly it is to make believe they are true the silly nature of who we think we are will be laughable, and easily forgettable, compared to the serious nature of taking a sel born of thought thinking of itself, seriously.

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