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The Only Mind You Can Positively Change is Your Mind
Why not focus on positively changing your mind for the better?
Spending any time at all browsing social media can be infuriating. Any encounter with news sources — legitimate or not — can be disheartening and depressing.
Between the ongoing fight with the COVID-19 pandemic, seriously disruptive and destructive politics, entitled people being awful, and various other world events — it’s easy to lose sight of our own lives.
No matter what side you fall on in any given discussion — the desire to change minds is strong. “They” want you to think more how they think — and vice versa.
No matter if it’s all about an unsupportable opinion or scientific fact — nobody can change anyone else’s mind.
I share a lot of the blogs I do with the notion of waking people up. I desire to help people become more empowered and do more for themselves. That’s why I am regularly sharing practices for mindfulness, conscious reality creation, finding and/or creating positivity, and overall self-awareness.
I can share all I want. But I can’t persuade, push, force, or otherwise make anyone change their mind.
Yet because so much of the narrative in the collective consciousness aims at changing…
