You Are Not Broken - You Are Becoming Better And Better Every Single Day

I keep on hearing people saying that they are broken somehow, or they need healing, or they are defective in some way. It seems like a terrible way to view oneself, and I wanted a suggest an alternative path.

Transcript

Hello everyone!

I hope that you're doing amazing wherever you are in the world.

My name is Boom Shaka and I welcome you to my channel.

As always I'm so grateful that you're listening,

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In this one I wanted to speak to you about something that I've been thinking about quite often in the recent past and I think it has something to do with the fact that I've been noticing a surge of healing practices around me and I'm really grateful that people are getting into healing themselves and doing interesting things to fix themselves.

I don't know if that's the right word because we're not really broken if you think about it.

And that's basically the gist of my video or my audio here is that I wanted to focus on the idea or the fact,

I really think it's a fact,

That we're not actually broken as such.

For some reason as soon as we're born we're perfect,

Right?

As babies everyone thinks babies are perfect.

We are perfect as we are here and no one thinks that we need to be fixed or healed or anything of that sort.

And so you're a child,

Same thing kind of applies mostly until perhaps you're seven or eight years old and all of a sudden something changes within the people around us and they start seeing us as imperfect.

They start looking at our flaws and enumerating them.

These are all the things that are wrong with you and then it's not focusing or not even thinking about all of our good characteristics and no not telling us on a regular basis how cool we are and how awesome we are and how good we are at speaking or how good we are at dancing or whatever it might be but rather just focusing on our flaws.

And as time goes on that becomes more and more pervasive.

So as an adult we rarely hear things that are good about us.

Rarely ever does anyone say to you,

Oh you're really awesome at that.

I really love when you do that.

No one really says that.

Very rare is it to receive compliments as an adult about the things that you're good at and things that you're awesome at.

Mostly it's about you know I really didn't like how you did that.

I'd love it if you improved upon that or you know I think you kind of you need some healing in that regard because you're still a little bit broken after that breakup.

Breakup is such a terrible word because it has break in it.

Or in general we're kind of told of things we could improve upon,

Change and you know heal within ourselves rather than all the amazing things there are already within us.

And so as an adult I guess you get we get used to the idea or idea of hearing about and also thinking that we are broken somehow.

That we need to be fixed.

That we are not complete somehow as well.

That's why some of us are always looking for that other person to complete us because we think well if I'm one piece like this and I have all these things all of these things missing then perhaps if I find someone else who has all of these things that I'm missing then we can complete each other.

And so constantly and on a daily basis we're told that we're flawed,

We're broken,

We need healing,

We need to change ourselves,

We need to fix ourselves,

We need to complete ourselves,

We are very puzzle pieces and we need to find our other puzzle piece and things like that.

And all of these phrases,

Meaningless phrases really somehow are always constantly told to us and as I said we start believing the idea that we need healing.

And I noticed this a lot around the people around me and in the world in general where I notice on all the social media feeds and all the different Facebook feeds everywhere all the information that's coming at me is constantly telling me that all of the people around me are in not all but a lot of the people around me are in a constant process of healing.

Now I'm not saying that people shouldn't be healing of course you know I think healing is a great great thing.

I think it's a great idea that we can we constantly on a quest to improve ourselves.

And I think the more the idea should be more about improving and becoming the best version of ourselves rather than being this broken down incomplete person and trying to fix ourselves to become something better.

Right?

I think we're already perfect as we are,

As perfect as we can be in this moment in time,

As perfect as we can be with all the tools and the circumstances and the life experiences that we have been handed.

And so we are perfect in this moment in time and I think we just need to start off from that moment of perfection rather than from that moment of brokenness.

I think it would be really nice if we started off from that idea that we had as children that we are superheroes,

That we have all of these amazing talents and abilities and we're starting off from that point rather than from an adult perspective where they think oh there's so many things wrong with me maybe one or two things right but mostly I'm completely broken and flawed and so I'm starting off from that point of view.

It's such a different point of view to start from.

Can you imagine?

Can you see the difference?

Think of a child or like even a baby who's completely perfect in all of the different ways and you look at the baby and there's nothing for that baby to improve on.

They are perfect as they are.

Now of course you know that as they develop their personality they're going to need some tweaks and some little changes here and there but they're still perfect as they are and I think that's what all human beings need to realize in all of the different forms that we are perfect as we are and this is not just some spiritual woo-woo thing to say.

It literally is the idea that if you look at any religious text and if you are a religious person you know that says it over and over again that we are built in the image of God.

We are built as God is and yes God is not perfect either and that's again another theory that's really important to realize but he's as perfect as can be and we are as perfect as we can be as well.

Now of course as time goes on we become more and more perfect right?

We become more and more of who we are.

We learn more about ourselves.

We grow more in the direction that we're supposed to go into.

We become more of that person that we are supposed to become so we can stop the cycle of forgetting and reincarnation if that's something that you believe in.

But as in general in this moment in time as you are sitting there listening to this audio or watching this video whatever more format you are in you are perfect as you are.

As you're sitting there however you're sitting if you're sitting standing laying down sleeping whatever your position is and wherever you are in your life it doesn't matter how old you are how young you are how much you've accomplished how little you've accomplished how much you have how much money you have how much money you don't have you know all of those things no matter what is going on around you because all of that is just meaningless anyways because as soon as you die it all gets erased except for the lessons that you learned.

The thing is that you are perfect as you are right you already are there and so if you if we just kind of tweaked our thinking a little bit I'm not saying stop healing of course not because the process of improvement and the process of learning and growth is absolutely paramount to being a human being on this planet a human being in general but it is important to realize that there are different point of views that we can start off from different places that we can start off from right we can already start from the side of a mountain so we've already gone up a bit and we've learned something about ourselves and then we're moving towards a peak or we can start from the absolute bottom of the mountain and be like we don't know anything we are nothing and we are flawed and we're broken and we're useless and we are pieces of garbage things that people say to themselves all the time and then we move up and we improve ourselves it's such a different perspective to start off from the bottom of the mountain rather than from the side of the mountain right and so I really want you guys what all of you people all of the individuals who are listening to this and I wish all the people in the world who are in the process of healing themselves to just stop forcing the process to be so convoluted and painful it's not supposed to be as painful as we make it out to be and also it's not supposed to be so rigid regimented and so rigid and so inflexible either I notice people who are literally doing a thousand different healing modalities almost every single month they're doing something new something different every single day sometimes and I feel like they don't give themselves time either to integrate and also not to realize they don't give themselves time to realize that they are good enough as they are they they're actually perfect they just need to improve themselves a little bit and that's all and they don't need to force it so much they don't need to try so hard to heal themselves they don't need to try so hard to be not broken because they're not really broken and I really wish that we would change the language around the healing process I wish that we would make it more of a process a long-term process and there's no urgency to it there's no time barriers and there's nothing that you need to worry about you are fine as you are right now it's it's fine if you don't even do any healing that's okay as well but of course as human beings you always want to grow we always want to improve ourselves so you're probably going to do healing in general are you going to improve yourself in general but realize that you're not starting from point zero you're not starting from zero but you're starting from somewhere maybe 50 I would say and or 40 or something like that and you're good as you are you don't need to berate yourself you don't need to put yourself down in fact you're great you're awesome and think of yourself as the unflod baby that you were in the past a lot of that still remains within you you haven't completely lost it even though we like to tell ourselves that even though society likes to tell us that and media especially likes to tell us that it's not true all right I hope this makes sense to you I hope that this was useful and hopefully you can kind of take some of the lessons for yourself and use it in your life again thank you so much for your support I am so appreciative so grateful and I shall see you in the next one bye for now

Reviews

I love the reminder of “you’re not starting from zero.”

This was well spoken and there are many good thoughts in it, but I feel it is hard to relate to because I dislike myself.

Thank you! This was great, I agree with you, I don't like it when people use the term broken to describe themselves and others I thing it diminishes oneselves instead of filling with light and perspective the way we see ourselves and the world

Thank you

Really enlightening and down to earth. Thanks!

Incredible! Thank you🙏

I would recommend this talk for anyone who is in a headspace where they feel fundamentally flawed. It really puts things in perspective and offers some fresh and positive insights so that you can feel better and move on quickly.

A lovely talk, 🙏☺️