If we’re too preoccupied about appearing perfect we are going to start living inauthentically. We will be in our heads; we will examine and second guess every move we make and every word we say. Enough to make anyone go crazy, am I right?
It’s okay to make mistakes – mistakes are what make us grow. And if we do not grow we will repeat the same patterns until we learn to do different and see different, or until we die. This might be about putting into practice things that we don’t yet understand in order to see the bigger picture.
Quick moral of the story? Get out of your head and get out of your own way.
Louise Hay would have us recite: “I am perfect, whole and complete.”
But maybe she means it’s in our imperfections that make us perfect, whole and complete just the way we are. Accepting ourselves for our curiosities, silly questions, world views and idiosyncrasies.
“I accept myself for exactly who I am and where I’m at in this precise moment. I am perfect, whole and complete.”
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