Hey there it's Alyssa again and something that I wanted to talk about today is how other people's opinions and other people's ideas of us,
How that can affect how we view ourselves.
So basically what I was going to say is that I believe that life is a constant questioning of our beliefs and our thoughts and a lot of the time I've noticed that I've let other people's thoughts of me or ideas of me that's kind of just been in my mind of like,
Oh when I think about myself what do I think of and then if I take so much stock into what other people think of me then that means like I care about it and then I get hurt and that can affect the way I feel about myself.
So what I wanted to share is that it's been a good thing for me to think about,
You know,
Whenever I'm ready of course.
I'm not always,
You know,
The thing with self-healing and doing the kind of work of self-awareness and things like that,
It's heavy work sometimes and so I always take what I need in doses and whenever I share information about this just only take with what resonates with you and you know this is just information for me to share.
I don't want to put pressure on this or anything,
You know,
It's just it's just information I'm sharing.
So yeah,
So I just wanted to say that but I've noticed that yeah other people's thoughts sometimes have shaped how I think about myself so now I'm letting go of what other people think about me.
I'm basically not fixated on that because any person can have their idea or thoughts about me anytime,
Anywhere and that will continue to exist and that is a fact that people will have their ideas and opinions about me because that is inevitable and why would I expect that to always be a good thing all the time because our world is dark and light and in between,
You know,
So that is going to be the feedback regardless,
You know,
Like from the collective it's a little bit of everything and for me to be aware of that and know that that will continue to exist then I don't have to let other people's opinions and ideas define me because I need to have my own ideas and opinions about me.
I need to be able to define me with me like being by myself without anything else around me,
You know,
What defines me without other people in the picture basically and yeah so that's just something that I wanted to talk about that when you think about yourself are the thoughts that you think about yourself other people's ideas of you and if it is,
You know,
What's your idea of you and I believe that anything less than love that's in our mind like about us that it's not true that somewhere that was,
You know,
An influence from the environment,
You know,
And then sometimes like,
You know,
Like self-criticism and things like that come up so I realize that for most of my life,
You know,
I've clutched to self-criticism and judgment and,
You know,
Things like that for myself and,
You know,
So there's always something we can unlearn that isn't really supporting who we are and yeah so anyway that's just something that I wanted to share today about how other people's thoughts and opinions do you have their place but it's not supposed to take over how you think and feel about yourself because you're the one who's went through what you've went through to get to where you are today you are the one that has had those experiences and those thoughts and those feelings for a reason and that should be acknowledged and valued within yourself to understand that you're the only one that's going to know how important and how much that matters because you're the one that has lived through it so we all have our own ideas and thoughts for a reason as individuals by nature and it's something that we need to be understanding and not taking others opinions and beliefs as our own and saying that that's our identity you know really I just think that's covering up who we truly are to take someone else's ideas and thoughts and you know say that that's who I am and I just think it's worth it to look at these things that might be putting us down and understanding where that came from and you know am I ready to let go of that and implement a new love for myself and want to have a new love for myself even you know or think that other things are you know more for my highest good than what I've been doing this whole time and that's what I'm realizing a lot right now is that like just because these ways that I've set for myself have worked this long doesn't mean that it's still going to work for me now you know we're always changing and evolving and adapting and learning new things about our lives so it's just worth it to see where our thoughts came from and know that we really do deserve all the love and we deserve to give the love back to ourselves and anyway thank you so much for listening and have such a great day
