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When Is Humility Is The Way Forward?
Is knowledge truth? This is an important question to ask yourself in the context of personal growth and finding emotional calmness. Because, generally, knowledge is captured in books, it is written down, recorded by millions [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] of combinations of the 26 letters of the English alphabet within words - to which we add our own meaning and each of us may interpret those words in many different ways.
If you ask people who want to emotionally grow what they want, the answer is nearly always "I want to feel more abc......." They describe the feelings and emotions they want to experience or to let go of and these feelings can't fully be expressed with words.
Words can't truly express the sound of a song; words can't describe colours or the beauty of a sunset, words tend to express the event, but not the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] feelings and emotions experienced by our inner self.
Our education tends to play a trick on us; we are taught that if we learn about everything, if we amass lots of knowledge, then we will know the truth, we will know right [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] from wrong. Of course, knowledge helps us in our life, but not necessarily with our happiness and wellbeing.
The reality is "what is truth" are words the truth? Are feelings the truth? Just because [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] a person has knowledge does it mean that what they do and say is the truth? Personally, I don't think so.
As you consider this you'll begin to see that we all live in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] our own personal worlds, there is the world from one person's point of view, what they feel is right or wrong "they shouldn't do that, she has [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] more than [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] me" and there is the world from another person's point of view "I'm not good enough, I'll never be able to do that" - Which is true? Are they both true? Either way they are looking to use words to describe their predicament and that detaches them from the feelings they so desperately want to change.
As living beings, when we experience nature in its finest glory, a view, a taste, a smell, when we experience the birth of a baby or an animal, we can often become lost for words, just emotionally overwhelmed.
When this happens, it doesn't matter if there is truth or not, it is not important who is right or wrong, in that moment our mind is quiet, we are just in awe and we connect with the fullness of our feelings and emotions, this is the state we are looking for and it has nothing to do with our conscious thinking processes.
As you learn to stop the racing mind and focus more on your feelings and emotions you'll see that truth is an internal concept, my truth is my truth and your truth is your truth. So following truth becomes more about how we are honest about our feelings and how we let go of fearful thoughts and beliefs that don't serve us well.
As this world unfolds before you everything becomes so very clear, you can see all the games people are playing as they hide their true feelings and project false images of themselves thinking that they will get more acceptance or more love or in some way be protected if they have more knowledge. They continue to accumulate knowledge and possessions to cover their emotional insecurities, whilst deep in their heart they long to be emotionally free to be able to love and be loved.
I use a lot of jokes and humorous stories in my therapy practice because it stops people focussing too much on conscious facts, laughing is just [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] natural, you don't need to analyse anything. I especially like to help people get to the point where they can laugh at themselves rather than feel [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] frustrated or feel guilty etc.
We humans are so similar that we are generally easily classified, in my therapy practice I see this every day. There are those who are caring and don't like conflict very much, they tend to worry [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] about the future and can become a little anxious if their security is threatened. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] There are those who like to take charge of situations and feel good once their goals are met although they know the price of this is a little stress. And there are the people who think that rules are for others and they look for self-gratification in their activities and can get a little anxious if not enough is happening in their life.
Which group do you fall into? Realise that what is truth is for one set of people, will not make sense for participants in another group, to them it will be false, yet that doesn't make it wrong (or right). Adopting more flexibility is the key to moving forward; allowing yourself to move to new points of view, perhaps even try living in one of the other groups for a while to broaden your horizons, expand your emotional bandwidth.
Regardless of which group you feel you belong to if what you are looking for is calmness and more emotional connection with life, more self-love and more self-respect then it starts with a few simple rules.
People usually don't realise that it is possible to choose your emotions, both the type of emotion and when you experience it. However, as they stop comparing and judging themselves against others, as they stop judging and criticising people, all the emotions caused by external factors begin to decline and true feelings can begin to surface.
As your self-esteem grows you'll need to take an inventory of all of your self-beliefs, we all have them, remnants from our schooling or the way we were brought up. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Beliefs about what you can do and beliefs about what you can't do, self-beliefs about how [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] lovable you are, how talented you are, how pretty you are. There comes a time when you need to actually see these beliefs as hurdles to further personal growth and choose to finally let them go.
Try letting your real feelings out for a change, speak your mind, stop protecting other people's feelings, allow yourself to be vulnerable, test it for a while and see [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] how it feels (the world won't end). By acting in new ways your old beliefs will be revealed to you and then you can decide to let them go and live a more fearless existence.
So the next step in the journey of personal growth is living with humility. As you let go of old behaviours and thought patterns, then drop the charade of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] self-importance a whole new world begins to open.
Humility is a funny word and means many different things to each individual, to me, it means that we are all equal, no one is more important than me and I am not more important than anyone else. I don't need to judge anyone and I don't need to judge myself. I don't need to put my agenda before anyone else's, I don't need to be right or wrong, I can just listen without needing to talk.
With humility you can just be you. You can love and respect others and need nothing in return. You can see clearly that you are living in your own little world and others are living in their own little world and we all occupy space on this planet, it stops being a competition to see who is the fastest or the best, really we all want the same thing, to feel loved.
Humility opens many doors and allows fear and anxiety to escape, you no longer need to worry about others, they can look after themselves, and they can be responsible for their actions and the subsequent consequences. You no longer need to try and change them, to save them, all you need to do is be there for them, love them and above all respect yourself.
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