“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”
Eckhart Tolle.
We are obsessed with trying to please others. We don’t want to let people down. We don’t want to disappoint. Why? Because we were conditioned this way. Discipline at home, in school, or even through playing sports taught us as young children to behave in a certain way. To obey ‘the rules’. To ‘not step out of line’.
If we did, the consequences were clear. We’d be punished. Deprieved of something we enjoyed. Told to go to our room. Stand in a corner. Maybe even shouted at or given the silent treatment. Worst still, for some it resulted in physical violence.
The message was the same. Don’t disappoint or you’d be punished.
We were made feel broken and that we needed to be fixed.
Society encouraged it. Parents, guardian, teachers, coaches knew no different. It was not their fault. This is how they were conditioned and believed this is what they were meant to do.
But you are already complete. You don’t need to be fixed.
Through awareness, you can drop the conditioned beliefs imposed upon you. They are not who you truly are.
You don’t need to please anyone. Do what you want to do. Be your true self.
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