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Encountering Truth - pain or progress?
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<blockquote data-quote="ScentofCedar" data-source="post: 101860" data-attributes="member: 3353"><p>I find it helpful too to label the fear of confronting old belief systems exhilaration.</p><p></p><p>Is it true that it is our own belief systems we are challenging when we choose to change? </p><p></p><p>Whose voice is it, telling us who we are and making us afraid to try a different way of being in the world?</p><p></p><p>There are so many people willing to convince us that we are no more than we appear to be.</p><p></p><p>I think that may not be true though.</p><p></p><p>I think we become whatever we were taught our limits were.</p><p></p><p>If we can challenge those old beliefs, then we can choose, and truly change our potentials and our lives.</p><p></p><p>Those old, negative tapes telling us how we are going to lose or look foolish are insidious, and so familiar that we don't recognize them. When something goes wrong in one area of our lives, it seeps over and we lose confidence in other areas, I think.</p><p></p><p>Pain does push us toward change.</p><p></p><p>But here is the question: Is there a way to motivate ourselves toward the positive changes we can imagine, if we allow ourselves to do so, WITHOUT pain?</p><p></p><p>Comfort levels are so...comfortable.</p><p></p><p>You have given me some very nice things to think about, GG.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScentofCedar, post: 101860, member: 3353"] I find it helpful too to label the fear of confronting old belief systems exhilaration. Is it true that it is our own belief systems we are challenging when we choose to change? Whose voice is it, telling us who we are and making us afraid to try a different way of being in the world? There are so many people willing to convince us that we are no more than we appear to be. I think that may not be true though. I think we become whatever we were taught our limits were. If we can challenge those old beliefs, then we can choose, and truly change our potentials and our lives. Those old, negative tapes telling us how we are going to lose or look foolish are insidious, and so familiar that we don't recognize them. When something goes wrong in one area of our lives, it seeps over and we lose confidence in other areas, I think. Pain does push us toward change. But here is the question: Is there a way to motivate ourselves toward the positive changes we can imagine, if we allow ourselves to do so, WITHOUT pain? Comfort levels are so...comfortable. You have given me some very nice things to think about, GG. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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