The Only Person You Can Change Is Yourself
Presently I am going through a lot in my life and looking to the outside world for my answers, I remembered the Concept: ‘The only person you can change is yourself!’ This Concept redirects me back to look to my inner world for my answers.
When I am only focusing on what is going on outside of me, then I am not able to change me. As simple as this Concept may sound, I have personally experienced how easy it is to overlook and believe I get it. The question for me is “Am I living the Concepts?” When I am living them I flow. When I am not living them I experience life as a struggle. Hence the Concepts, ‘Beliefs create realities,’ ‘You can only see that which you know,’ and ‘Life is a projection of your beliefs.’ These Concepts tie in for me in changing myself.
So I then look at what I perceive is going on in my life. What beliefs do I still hold on to, such as life is hard? Believing life is hard will create the hard both internally and externally. Life will show up as I believe it to be. I personally have experienced what inside change can create, joy and ease. I have also experienced what holding on to the beliefs can create, the hardness and unhappiness. The choice then becomes mine on which experience I choose to have. I am the creator of my life and the only person I can change is myself.
~ Annmarie Serratore
Excerpt from “Living the 55 Concepts” by Michael Cavallaro and Friends.
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