You Are Superman! Why Limitations Are Kryptonite
Imagine that a genie came to you and offered to make all your dreams come true. You’d be able to achieve anything you wanted and be anyone you wanted to be. You’d be able to start fresh and create the life of your dreams.
Now, picture yourself doing exactly that, doing what you love and being who you’d like to be. Feel how good it is to be living to your full potential. Cool, huh?
We all have the potential to achieve anything and be anyone we want to be without using a genie. So why don’t we? We can be as powerful as Superman (maybe without the flying thing and the cape) if we give ourselves permission to explore our potential.
Catch the Passion Fever but Don’t Call the Doctor
There is a new bug going around but no one is afraid of catching it. Actually, people want to get contaminated and help spread this fever. The lucky ones that caught this Passion Fever are now living a life of excitement. And here’s why:
When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell
I recently went through a process to discover my number one passion in life. Even though I already felt passionate about life and I thought I knew exactly where I wanted to go, I was astonished by the results.
This test changed my life and how I relate to my number one passion. I’ll tell at the end how this was revolutionary for me and how it can be for you too. First, you need to understand how to uncover your main passion in life. I’m going to lead you through the same process that I went through.
How to Be Happy Despite Your Partner’s “Flaws”
How can we find happiness and have a perfect relationship when our partner is abusive in some way? What if no matter how loving you are, your partner still behaves in a physically or verbally violent manner? This situation can be enormously frustrating, extremely challenging, and even dangerous, but not hopeless.
In my previous post, The Best Relationship Tip Ever, I explained the concepts of the “flawless partner” and of seeing perfection in others. We are going to apply the same concepts here, but with a different twist.
The first step is to avoid trying to change your partner. Since this is crucial, let me say it again. “Try not to change your partner”, even when you think his or her behavior is appalling. Got it? Stick with me here and it will all make sense in the end.
The Best Relationship Tip Ever
What do you do when your partner starts to change and he or she is no longer the one you were initially attracted to? How can someone so right became so wrong after a while? What changed? Whose fault is it?
The answer is not as complicated as you think. There is never anything wrong with the person we are with; only our perception of them may be faulty. This may seem like a mouthful. Let me walk you through the basic relationship syndrome.
Why We Don’t Need to Know a Thing
This post was written as a contribution to the Life Lessons Series, a project for personal development bloggers to share their life experiences with readers. I feel honored to have been invited to be a part of such a wonderful project.
We often think that we know what is best for us and for everyone around us. Actually, we even think we know how people we haven’t met, such as celebrities, should lead their lives and what they’re doing wrong. We think we know what is best for the environment and for the world as a whole.
If we knew what was best for our lives and the world, wouldn’t we all be living a happy life in a happy world?
Notice how many times during the day you are caught giving advice to people on what they should do. We also tell ourselves in subtle ways what we should be doing later – say, the next day and the next month — like we already how our lives should turn out.
We think we know what is best for us, but as the old saying goes “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans”. In truth, most of the time we actually don’t know what is best for ourselves or anyone else.
How to Recognize if You’re Living Behind a Mask?
We have so many roles that we play in life that sometimes it is difficult to remember who we really are. We take on specific roles such as parent, friend, daughter, son, employee, and so on. We live these parts as if they are our identity trying not to disappoint others or ourselves for performing a less than perfect role.
And then there are all these other labels that are assigned to us based on birth such as astrological sign, based on certain behaviors such as a dosha type in the Ayurveda tradition, or based on testing such as personality and IQ testing. The list goes on and on.
How do you escape all the labels and parts that you have to play so you can be free and happy? Who are you anyway?
I tend to see the integration of our thousand masks into one as a three step process. Read the rest of this entry »
The Only Step Needed for True Happiness
If we ask one hundred people what it takes to be happy, the answers will be very different. Our idea of happiness varies widely based on our ideas about life and ourselves. Even though we may all have different ideas about how to be happy and of what happiness is the answer to how to be happy is actually the same for all of us.
So, the big question is: What is the secret to always being happy — no matter what happens and regardless of the circumstances?
The comparison syndrome
When you think that you should be single, married, thinner, taller, richer, successful, and so on, you fail by comparison. You think you should be something else and therefore you are immediately unhappy with who you are or where you are in life.
Britetalk is self-empowerment blog, a place for sharing how to live a happy, positive, passionate, peaceful life.Author Andrea DeBell is a happiness expert, bliss consultant, blogger enthusiast, spiritual geek, personal growth fanatic, and lover of all things bright. More...
