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Inadvertent Condescension
My intent was good — but my approach needed adjustment.
I have been studying various sources of mindfulness, conscious reality creation, the Law of Attraction, self-improvement, and other self-awareness life tools for almost 20 years.
Some are really out there. Hippy-crunchy, hooky-spooky, and occasionally off-putting. But some have a more grounded basis in reality.
Having worked with both, and applied many practices to my own life, I choose to share this. But in doing so, I work to put it into more laymen’s terms, to make the ideas less pie-in-the-sky and more reachable.
Sharing these things online via blog posts and articles is one thing. I also like to share them with my friends and family in conversations. Sometimes this occurs via the natural progression of a given conversation. And sometimes, having had a similar experience to the person I am conversion with — or insights from things I’ve read or otherwise seen — I share some thoughts intent on being helpful.
This is not unsolicited advice, per se. My approach tends to be, “Hey, can I offer a thought?” before sharing. That’s not where the problem lies. I dislike unsolicited advice, so I strive to be mindful not to offer it.
