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Monday, September 8, 2014

You can change your views, opinions, ideas, and beliefs....



"Changing yourself takes time; it is incremental and can seem like hypocrisy to judging observers. While developing you you may reverse opinions, contradict yourself and seem inconsistent with your beliefs and actions.
Don't allow people to control you with the consistency trap. Consistency has been weapon.
Don't let consistency be used against your holistic being and full-spectrum intelligence.

You are not illogical.
You are not stupid.

Being 'smart' is a total spectrum of behaviours; it is about balance not just intellect.

Your opinions matter and you can even change them! You can say things that are completely wrong and still be a part of a legitimate dialogue.

You can do things that are completely wrong and still be a part of a legitimate evolution.
You are an amorphous being and can change your views, opinions, ideas, and beliefs at will and as frequently as you desire.
You are allowed to be inconsistent, contradictory and unbound by conventions such as sanity, intelligence or making sense.

When you reserve the right to total contradiction, you reserve the self-acceptance to be human.


"In every or any situation, regardless of the mitigating factors, you can always change your mind. If what you are thinking, saying or doing in response to any person or experience is not bringing you peace, change your mind! Changing your mind about anything or anyone transforms how those things or persons impact your life."
— Iyanla Vanzant

Accepting a person who is not consistent is difficult because it means you cannot depend on them to have unchanging values and ideas, which is another way of saying you cannot "understand" them.

People often want to "understand" others to "know their place" for strategic self-positioning, which is ultimately about control and safeguarding their advantage.
If you make a big life-change it may literally shatter those around you because they can only accept and "love" you "their way."
They may judge you as unstable, but really they are unstable, which is why they may fall-apart as you move forward. It is really their illusion of knowing and control that has ended.

The inconsistent person is free, and freedom is really what people fear most.

Who says you have to be the same person tomorrow that you are today?
It is a ridiculous notion.
Change is inevitable.

Your personal and spiritual evolution will always be seen as a betrayal by those whose values you abandon.
You have a right to change your values, beliefs and ideas.
The discomfort you feel when you attempt to change is just the social control that surrounds you becoming more obvious and bearing down on you.
There is nothing more spiritual than freedom and it is very spiritual to violate old beliefs for new values.

"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing."
— Brian L. Weiss

Remember.
We so easily sling judgements on others, yet we don't want judgements levied against us when we change our ideals.
Everyone just wants acceptance.
Accepting others is really about accepting yourself, because when you accept others you are freed from your own inner-conflict.
When you quit judging others you can be your true-self, rather than being emotionally embroiled with other people's lifestyles and beliefs.

Your spiritual journey is about freedom, but not just your freedom everyone's freedom."


by/ps/smoh