Breaking Free from Old Beliefs.

I’ve cried a lot, lately.

I can’t believe there was a time where I was afraid to cry. Ashamed to cry.

All because of a misguided notion that crying, somehow, makes a person weak. Not so, at all, I now see. How grateful I am to have shed that false skin and gifted myself freedom.

I’m always scanning for other outdated stories my psyche might be holding onto; stories that are also untrue, and causing me to limit myself.

Another false belief I once held was: ‘yoga is for hippies’. People are so unkind to hippies, I thought. I should definitely not be one of those. That’s just the thing, though. When I could clearly see that there was nothing actually true about the story that ‘Yoga is for hippies’, I became free of it. The fear was gone. Now, I love yoga, and regularly use its benefits to improve my life.

Also, the concept of ‘a Hippy’ no longer holds any meaning, for me. It’s an identity label that some may choose to embrace, if it means something nice to them. But much like the belief, ‘Yoga is for hippies,’ the label ‘Hippy’ hasn’t any real truth to it, either. Humans are far too nuanced to be held solidly within one fixed, narrow label, surely.

What is that wonderful quote from Hamlet? There is nothing either good, nor bad, but thinking makes it so.’ The human mind is the ultimate meaning maker.

Just think of the possibilities available to us, if we guide our minds with care.