Aaron DoughtyAwareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, Awareness Mastery, LLC · Spiritual Teacher and Educator

Give people the opportunity to CHOOSE YOU

20 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this self‑help segment, the speaker argues that embracing authenticity and vulnerability—essentially "choosing yourself"—acts as a filter that pushes away people who are only attached to a version of you that sacrifices your own needs. Those individuals are conditionally connected to the "abandon‑self" persona because they benefit from it. By being okay with whether others accept or reject this authentic self, you grant them the genuine chance to choose you, which ultimately leads to healthier, more honest relationships.

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When you begin choosing you by being authentic and vulnerable, it will repel certain people from your life. And if certain people get triggered or activated when you start choosing you, it's because they've become conditionally connected to just the version of you that abandons yourself. It means they're benefiting from that. And what that means is that there are certain people that might only really resonate with the part of you that does abandon yourself. If you were to choose yourself in friendships or relationships, one of the powerful components of this is you have to be okay whether people choose you or not. You have to understand that either way is okay because then you really give people the opportunity to choose you.