Years ago, when I first got into the world of personal development—a synonym for which is ‘ego’ (personal) ‘boosting’ (development) 🤷🏻♂️—I heard all these teachers banging on about the pivotal role that thought plays in our lives and how we need to change our thinking, in order to have a better experience of life.
Here's one:
“Change your thoughts and you can change the world.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
It made sense to me (it seemed pretty obvious) and so I gave it a go. Affirmations, visualisation, the whole nine yards.
And oh my god it was EXHAUSTING. Like constantly trying to take control of your own breathing or something.
🤔 🫁 😮💨
I became profoundly dispirited by the world of personal development (here's another synonym for that: ‘separate self reinforcement’ 🤷🏻♂️) as a result.
I thought I just wasn't cut out for it, so I turned against it.
I had failed. Happiness involved hard work and I couldn't be bothered. I deserved to be miserable.
And boy, was I miserable.
😞
Then someone pointed me in the direction that this quote points in.
This was different. It made me curious. It didn't seem to involve any hard work at all.
(Right up my alley! 😂)
I started learning about the nature of thought and over the course of just 17 days (I've checked the calendar), as insight after insight rebooted my tired, struggling little brain, my entire life changed, as if by magic.
(I should note, it's not magic, but it sure as hell feels magical when it happens.)
- What did I do? Nothing. I just listened.
- What changed? Everything. Forever.
- Why did it happen then? I dunno. Timing, I suppose.
I honestly don't know why, and am profoundly grateful that it happened. Pretty much every day I wake up. No matter how ‘bad’ things might appear. (And boy, has some ‘bad’ shit happened, since then.)
Maybe I'd spent so long clinging onto false beliefs about how life worked, and struggling against its flow as a result, that the universe just threw me a bone:
Oh, the relief.
😌
Why am I telling you this?
I'm unique—just like you—but I'm not special. Irrespective of who you are, what you've been through, where you live or how you see life… at the fundamental level, we're both made up exactly the same way. Therefore:
It's possible for EVERY being on this planet to get this liberating shift in perspective.
This is just how it is, and it's just how we are. Right here, right now.
But nobody told us.
It might look like actively ‘changing your thoughts’ is the answer, but it's really not.
You'll find that thought changes all on it own, once you start to see through the tricks of the mind and relax into the truth of who you really are.
There's no hard work to do; no wrestling with your mind, just curiosity, listening and openness. Those are the only ingredients required.
I thought you might be interested.
😁
Giles
These sorts of jaw-dropping life changes don't come about through willpower, they happen via insight – the seeing of something new.
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