Check the story you keep telling yourself!
I’ve discovered that in life, the way you perceive what happens to you is directly proportional to how emotionally healthy you’ll become. How do you interpret the way people behave toward you and around you? What story is going on in your mind? I’m presently learning that if a person has not fully healed from a dysfunction e.g. childhood dysfunction or even traumatic experiences in life, a person can have a skewed perception of things in life. Past experience has shaped our understanding of the world and our patterns of thought and behaviour. Experience has taught us to see how to perceive certain situations, what to expect from others or ourselves, and how to behave in different situations. For example, if most of our classroom experiences have been humiliating or unpleasant, we may enter a new classroom ready to fight and defend ourselves, or to be afraid. Culture inclines us to view some behaviours as positive and others as negative. So it is extremely important to c