relationship with self
how we relate with and feel about ourselves
Supritha S and
relationship with self
A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a kid.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.
Robert Greenetwitter.com“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
The way to find what that emotional blind spot is is to ask yourself: “If I couldn’t feel judgement at this moment, what emotion would I have to feel?”
For example:
For example:
- “If I couldn’t judge my friend for showing off, I would have to feel my own hurt at not being seen.”
- “If I couldn’t judge my coworker for being disorganized, I would have to feel my own
Lesson 2: How to find your emotional blind spots
Until we’re treating ourselves with dignity when we are struggling, we’re not healing.
Heidi Priebe is in motion • Tweet
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan Watts • Tweet
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling responsible for other people's emotions, reactions, and inner turmoil. We have an innate desire to be understood and accepted. So when others seem upset with us, judge us, or want us to change, we leap to explain, rationalize, and pacify. But in our quest to please or appease, we often lose ourselves.... See more
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