How often do you find yourself stressing out in attempting to maintain your position, with regards to comparing yourself to those around you?
Whether it’s at the beach, the gym, your workplace or shopping for groceries, we make judgement and comparisons to those surrounding us. Those judgements then serve to create either a positive or negative internal emotional reaction. Either way, our ego will use this to impact our mindset, leaving us with feelings of self-induced pride, or despondency.
If we can begin to understand the workings of our egotistical mind, we can then explore the options we have to negate the impacts it constantly has upon us. Those above-mentioned feelings of pride or despondency are a great case in point. What benefit do we really elicit from these emotional reactions? When we realise that the ego very rarely presents us with feelings of positivity, but rather those of inadequacy, of not being or having enough, we begin to understand why it benefits us to subdue our ego each time it negatively presents itself.
Freedom from negative thought is a goal every one of us should, and can, strive for. It begins with the realisation that the vast majority of society is caught up in exactly the same mind turmoil that you are, that you are not alone in this suffering, but that you can be freed from it. Start by monitoring your thoughts. How often does your mindset default to the negative? Observe this closely and you will be surprised how often you view situations with a dark taint, rather than feeling the freshness and buoyancy of positivity. We simply need to train our mind.
Begin by not comparing yourself to others, instead, understand that YOU are your competition. Don’t allow a negative mindset to drag you down or hold you back from enjoying an incredible life. You’ve been gifted an incredible opportunity, please don’t waste it.