How Our Awareness Changes Belief
Do We Get What We Deserve or What We Think We Deserve?
I used to believe that people got what they deserved. But as I’ve grown older I’ve come to see that this is rarely true. People don’t usually get what’s coming to them. Life is indeed unfair.
But as unfair as this is, it’s not something worth dwelling on. So much of “what people get” is out of my control. Instead, I try to put emphasis on a similar but greater truth.
People do usually do get what they think they deserve.
I see this playing out over and over. Many people I know can’t see how they allow their past experiences to hold them back. It’s a sad, but true reality. They don’t move forward in life because they don’t believe they deserve better.
One of the world’s greatest psychologists had a lot to say about this.
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
How We See Ourselves Is A Very Big Deal.
Jung wrote that if we think we deserve to suffer, we usually suffer more. Especially when it comes to what we hide from ourselves. If we can’t see how our limiting beliefs affect us, we can’t move past them.
“Until you make the…
