Acting Lessons (Part 1)

[quantumshaman]

PART ONE:
STALKING EXPECTATIONS & BELIEF SYSTEMS

"Act like a lady!" "Act like a warrior!" "Act like a nagual!"

Acting...

When I was a little girl and my mother told me to "act like a lady" in church, I wondered if that meant I would have to douse myself in cheap perfume, put on a flowered dress that stank of stale beer, wear blue eye shadow so thick

Comments

[krystalemerges]

interesting, while reading this, I recognized the positive and negatives of the phrase "act as if..." and it opened my awareness a bit, but I strongly agree, that to live up to anyone's "expectations" is courting disaster on so many levels, and perhaps if I quit putting "expectations" of others out there, I would be less disappointed, but that is reaching a bit out of my current reach, but I am reaching for it...