How to Let Go of Shoulds and Live By Your Musts
- Anna Mae
- Jul 29, 2016
- 1 min read
''For all our presumptuous beliefs about being totally in control of our lives, we live up to 90% of the time in the vast subconscious. Our thoughts and behaviors arise from the depths of an iceberg that channel our direction while we sit atop, unaware of the forces beneath us.
The subconscious is like a vast warehouse that holds our deepest and most cherished desires. It's where our truest and most authentic self lives. Leaving it in charge can certainly be good for our happiness—but that is often not the case. The subconscious contains much more than the real us. From the moment we are born, everything that happens around us—overt, subtle or hidden from conscious realization—is thrown atop this self and stowed away in a haphazard fashion.
And here’s the problem. At the entry to this chaotic storeroom, stands a gatekeeper who is uninformed and disinterested. And as we charter our course in life, we turn to it for help, unaware that it rarely ventures deep into its territory. Instead it throws whatever belief or assumption is close by, and hopes we will go away...''
by Homaira Kabir
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