Saying "Yes" to Yourself
Currently Reading:
Man's Search For Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Mike Meyers Revisited:
As I've quoted before, actor Mike Meyers (Austin Powers, Wayne's World) once said, "The secret to improvisational acting is saying 'yes' to everything that comes to you." An improv actor can only improvise if he accepts what's around him fully, and then reacts. I've already discussed how this teaching has become invaluable to my daily interactions, but now I want to take it to another level.
Bad Thoughts:
How often do we have a thought, and then think something like, "That's such a terribly bad thought, I shouldn't be thinking about such things." So you push against it, and yet seems to stay firmly planted in place. We're essentially telling that thought "no", but in order to work with it, we need to tell it "yes". Like it or not, that thought is not only yours, but it's you. To deny it is to deny yourself.
Namaste,
CET
"Much of the suffering in the world comes from the illusion that we are separate from one another." - Gautama Buddha
Man's Search For Meaning
by Viktor Frankl
Mike Meyers Revisited:
As I've quoted before, actor Mike Meyers (Austin Powers, Wayne's World) once said, "The secret to improvisational acting is saying 'yes' to everything that comes to you." An improv actor can only improvise if he accepts what's around him fully, and then reacts. I've already discussed how this teaching has become invaluable to my daily interactions, but now I want to take it to another level.
Bad Thoughts:
How often do we have a thought, and then think something like, "That's such a terribly bad thought, I shouldn't be thinking about such things." So you push against it, and yet seems to stay firmly planted in place. We're essentially telling that thought "no", but in order to work with it, we need to tell it "yes". Like it or not, that thought is not only yours, but it's you. To deny it is to deny yourself.
Namaste,
CET
"Much of the suffering in the world comes from the illusion that we are separate from one another." - Gautama Buddha