I'm just putting myself in the position of somebody listening and I say ''I don't feel seen or I don't feel
appreciated'' I find that people are nodding along at the logic but if I could see the thought balloon over their heads their heads would be shaking, no way. Unless someone is living in utter social isolation we are routinely surrounded with factual opportunities to feel included and seen and even appreciated just in ordinary life that people have walking down the street, getting a meal, interacting with other people, social media those are there every second even if in a person's life they're pretty thin there are things we can do to foster them and one of the simplest ways to foster them is to rest in a kind of benevolence yourself, a kind of good will, good wishes, being basically benign, looking for the good in others approaching people in a supportive kind of way in very simple terms immediately other people will respond to that which gives you then opportunities to take in a sense of healthy connection, I find that the issue for most people is not a lack of actual caring toward you, even though it would be good to get more caring coming towards you in its various forms and to find better relationships and all that, I find honestly that the lack is that people don't recognize the caring that's there and when they recognize it they don't feel it and when they feel that they don't take it in and the issue around all that is motivation, it's getting on your own side and tipping over to feel that this is the medicine I
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