The Seven Habits - Book Seven - Master Yourself: Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone (The Seven habits for Feeling Good 7) by Julieana Farrell

Author:Julieana Farrell [Farrell, Julieana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven – Exercise – Taking Responsibility for Everything

Just as a thought experiment, close your eyes and imagine that everything you experience in the world ‘out there’ is a projection – a creation – of your own mind. During this exercise, you are responsible for creating everything in your life: the way people behave around you, the situations you find yourself in, and the stories that you hear. Let’s suspend disbelief and pretend that you can even influence the weather and the things people say to you. How does that feel?

This is only a thought experiment – there are, of course, real people ‘out there’ in the world, and there are real objects made of real matter, which you have no control over. But you do create the people in your life in your own experience, by believing the stories you make up about them. You keep them in boxes and relate to them as concepts. You create whether the rain storm is good or bad. You decide whether to go with the flow, or resist reality.

If you repeat this exercise for a couple of minutes each morning while you’re cleaning your teeth, you’ll start to cut through the stories you create, and develop an ability to take responsibility for the things you can control. Instead of seeking to blame others and putting your happiness in their hands, you can empower yourself.

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