Introspection

𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬? 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧, 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭?

For example, who told you that you are not beautiful? How did you come to that conclusion?

Did you see a heavily edited picture of a model and conclude that you aren’t beautiful? Or did some angry people tell you this and you believe them?

If you haven’t interrogated your thoughts before, it’s highly likely that 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛 - 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

It is simply diabolical!

We lose our human agency when we can’t think for ourselves or even worse, when we don’t question our thoughts.

Our thoughts form our beliefs, and our beliefs control our lives.

𝐀𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭: 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: “𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨?” “𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦?”

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