Why You Don't Need to Change
RSS Feed Catherine explores a paradox: how can we grow and change without making ourselves wrong or trying to become somebody different?
Drawing on an Enlightenment Intensive workshop she attended years ago, she asks whether we can give up wanting to change and instead surrender to accepting ourselves and our lives as they are. She suggests that our power lies in being present with what is true now, rather than fighting with ourselves.
Catherine distinguishes between working on aspects of our behaviour and trying to change who we fundamentally are. She uses her own capacity for being bossy as an example, and explains how accepting that part of herself actually reduced its hold on her and created more freedom to choose how she behaved.
She also explores this through the metaphor of a garden. We can remove dead growth, clear paths and help the roses thrive without believing the garden is fundamentally broken. In the same way, we can work on our relationships, behaviour, attitudes or knowledge from a place of self-trust and acceptance.
The invitation is to surrender into exactly who you are now, while remaining free to learn, grow and make changes by choice rather than from a belief that you need fixing.
#SelfAcceptance #PersonalGrowth #Presence
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Where our conversation went:
00:09 Changing without trying to change
00:25 Giving up wanting to change
01:05 Where our power really is
01:28 Accepting the parts of ourselves we struggle with
02:34 Why Catherine works with change
03:07 What we miss when trying to be somebody else
03:48 Working on something without needing to be different
04:14 Changing from a place of self-trust
05:07 Behaviour is not the essence of who we are
05:33 The garden as a metaphor for ourselves
07:44 The difference between working on something and changing who we are
08:10 Could you give up wanting to change?
08:17 Surrendering while still choosing to grow
#SelfAcceptance #PersonalGrowth #Presence #podmatch
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