A journey from “the world I’ve to dwell in” to “the world I modify.”

A number of years in the past, in a profound dialogue about “management” with my colleagues, I described myself as a solitary planet inside an immense cosmos, perceiving surrounding relationships as meteoroids. I believed that too shut an encounter would inevitably result in a catastrophic collision, damaging each entities.

Nonetheless, with time and introspection, I’ve understood that this attitude was the foundation of many challenges I confronted in relationships. I’ve since shifted my perception, embracing the concept everybody embodies a definite universe ruled by distinctive legal guidelines that deserve recognition and respect. It is a second I name “development in self-awareness” in my journey towards heightened self-awareness.

Looking back, traversing this journey of dismantling former beliefs and cultivating new ones, I pen down these reflections. Hopefully, it’s clear and useful to your path of self-awareness.

Degree 1: The world I’ve to dwell in

Think about your self as a butterfly.

In your caterpillar section, you’re unaware of your latent potential to fly, even blind to such potential. Your world, consisting of vegetation, leaves, and flowers, is a playground for climbing, feeding, and evading predators.

Like animals adapting to their pure “Panorama,” we people are entrenched in a societal “Culturescape” — sure by norms, expectations, and limitations imposed by society.

At this stage of consciousness, we passively settle for our actuality, attributing successes to future and failures to misfortune. Basically, we view ourselves as mere victims of exterior circumstances.

When a caterpillar is caught by a sparrow, it wonders why the chicken arose sooner than standard. Equally, we’d unfairly blame our ancestral spirits after we face setbacks.

Life is brief, so it’s important to maneuver past this stage to find hidden potential.