The Good Vs. The Evil Wolf Story

Are you feeding the Good or the Evil wolf within you. There is a beautiful story of an elderly Cherokee and his grandson talking about life. In there is a great learning that can be explained psychologically and be very useful for your daily life. Enjoy and I hope to see you again for the next psychological grounded insight.

Julian

Transcript

The story of two wolves.

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson something about life.

He says,

A fight is going on inside of me.

It's a terrible fight and it's between two wolves.

One is evil.

He's anger,

Envy,

Sorrow,

Regret,

Greed,

Arrogance,

Self-pity,

Guilt,

Resentment,

Inferiority,

Lies,

False pride,

Superiority,

And ego.

He continued.

The other is good.

He's joy,

Peace,

Love,

Hope,

Serenity,

Humility,

Kindness,

Benevolence,

Empathy,

Generosity,

Truth,

Compassion,

And faith.

And the same fight is going on inside of you and inside every other person too.

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,

Grandfather,

But which wolf will win?

And the old Cherokee simply replied,

The one you feed.

So this story can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people,

But to me it shares sort of the struggle that's going on throughout most people's lives continuously.

And we quite often recognize it either with our thoughts,

That there's sometimes we think good thoughts about ourselves and about others,

And sometimes they're thoughts that are pulling us down and not helping us to be a good human being,

Contributing to other people's lives in a positive way.

And the story always reminds me that there is this continuous sort of feeding to the good wolf.

And what does that mean is focusing on supporting the good wolf,

Focusing on just giving it more space and more time and sort of recognizing in the moment,

Oh,

I want to be the good wolf.

I have this great vision of myself that is a really great human being.

I have this potential.

I know I do.

And every decision that you can make,

Every small step,

Whether it's getting up earlier,

Whether it's learning this,

Whether it's being kind to this other human being,

All of those tiny decisions that you can make are a decision to feed the good wolf,

Are a decision to help you to bring you closer towards this vision of the best self,

Of the best version of yourself.

And it's really in your hands to decide which version you want to be.