I've been browsing through websites doing some research on personal development. The cynic in me notices the clever use of celebrity endorsement and highly niched target marketing, and I'm left wondering if everyone is saying the same thing, just differently?
What does impact me is how we can't do it alone on this earth .... meaning we do need one another for a source of support and inspiration. So whether we connect to one person or another perhaps is irrelevant and it's more about who speaks to us the most. In some ways it's as though these people know our deepest fears and what consumes our thoughts. It's as though they're having a one-to-one conversation, although they don't know us personally.
Maybe it's a bit like reading your horoscope - you see the relevance to your own life because we want to and we're good at creating meaning. It is actually what humans do - we are meaning-making machines!
Knowing that we create our own meaning can be the starting point for change because if we are the 'creators', we have choice.
Perhaps, before 'fixing' meanings in our mind, we can consider what's happened and choose which one fits best - and here's another difference - not which one fits best in terms of defaulting back into old unwanted patterns, but more in terms of which one helps us live life differently - and in a more meaningful and empowered way.
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