Are you vulnerable?
Dr. Brene Brown spent the last ten years studying vulnerability. Her findings surprised her, so much so that she had to enter therapy - true story, as you will see in her presentation below.
So what was the revelation that impacted her so much? Vulnerability. She found that people who live their lives wholeheartedly allowed themselves to be vulnerable. Killing only negative emotions, such as fear and shame also kills their positive counterparts: love and joy. It turns out that we can't only kill certain emotions and let others live. We need to learn how to deal with the negative emotions, and one way to do that is the make ourselves vulnerable. That means to take the risk of trusting our instinct, to be the first to say "I love you", to accept life for what it is and not for what we have imagined it to be.
Dr. Brown makes a point that is hard to swallow for all of us type A's personalities: ordinary life has an incredible value. Life is not about what we would like to achieve - the bigger house, the better car, the higher position - but about the things we do that make us feel joyful, relaxed, happy, and content. In one word: LIVING. In four words: LIVING IN THE MOMENT.
Are you vulnerable?
So what was the revelation that impacted her so much? Vulnerability. She found that people who live their lives wholeheartedly allowed themselves to be vulnerable. Killing only negative emotions, such as fear and shame also kills their positive counterparts: love and joy. It turns out that we can't only kill certain emotions and let others live. We need to learn how to deal with the negative emotions, and one way to do that is the make ourselves vulnerable. That means to take the risk of trusting our instinct, to be the first to say "I love you", to accept life for what it is and not for what we have imagined it to be.
Dr. Brown makes a point that is hard to swallow for all of us type A's personalities: ordinary life has an incredible value. Life is not about what we would like to achieve - the bigger house, the better car, the higher position - but about the things we do that make us feel joyful, relaxed, happy, and content. In one word: LIVING. In four words: LIVING IN THE MOMENT.
Are you vulnerable?
Posted by Terra3.0 at 3/1/2011 10:20 AM 
Categories: Positive Thinking, Human Behavior
Tags: positive thinking human behavior
Categories: Positive Thinking, Human Behavior
Tags: positive thinking human behavior
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