Stop Borrowing Other People’s Eyes
Think about a situation, maybe it’s a job, a purchase, or even a social media post. Or maybe it’s about starting a new hobby, or routine. Now think about who is seeing your choices. Who is seeing what’s in front of you. Is it you? Is it really you? Or is it all the people that may have an opinion on “how it looks” or other people that have opinions on “what you should do”. We borrow other people’s eyes to see what’s in front of us.
Now, stop and think about what you really want. Turn all the other perspectives off. Quiet all of that. Ask yourself what you really want. That resistance you feel? That twinge you get when you give yourself permission to think about it ONLY as what YOU want? That’s just the layers of conditioning you are pushing against, it’s the resistance of all the other peoples’ voices telling you to listen to them instead of trusting yourself, instead of trusting your own voice. We’ve been trained to listen to everything outside of us. We’ve been trained to borrow everyone else’s eyes to look at it for us.
You know what you want. No one else has your perspective. No one else has your emotions from the source. No one else feels what you feel. Your feelings are guiding you, whether you know it or not. When you are really connected, you can feel it in everything you do. We’ve been taught to ignore it. We’ve been taught to listen to others and to be disconnected. But you know. Everything you do, if it is aligned, it feels good. If it is not aligned, it feels bad.
And the more in tune you get with your own perspective, with your own feelings on your choices, the more you are using your own eyes to see the situation, using your own voice to tell you if something is a fit or not, the more you do that, the easier it gets to hear your own voice and the harder it gets to ignore it.
In other words, the more you tune in to yourself and ignore, tune out all the rest, the easier it gets, and the better you get at it. Meaning, you can cut through all the rest, and you don’t have to listen to all the outside voices telling you what you “should: want. The louder your own voice gets, the quieter all the others get. And you know the difference. You know when you are doing things only because society, parents, teachers, church, whomever it is, you know when you are doing what THEY want, even when your inner voice is screaming to do something different. You know when you are listening to them, vs. when you are really listening to yourself. Trust that. Trust yourself. Trust that what you want is what YOU want. And that is right! Trust that you know better than all the outside people. Trust that they can’t see what you can. They can’t feel what you can feel.
So stop borrowing their eyes to see your own situation. Stop borrowing other people’s eyes. Use your own eyes. Trust your own eyes. And trust that you are seeing things more clearly than anyone else possibly could. Listen to your own voice. Trust your own voice. And trust that you are doing what YOU want to do.