The speaker discusses the courage it takes to follow inner guidance, acknowledging that family and relationships may shift as a result. Practical changes include calmer breathing, noticing your tone, and choosing people with integrity. The real gains are internal: better well-being and self-care.
I think it involves a tremendous amount of courage and dedication to make the decision that I'm gonna. That's not what I'm gonna cultivate. I'm gonna cultivate this against. And it may be politically incorrect in my family, unpopular. It may change my relationships with people around me. And the ways that I've been getting stroked and adored and admired and valued all these years may fall away. I may even be accused of, you know, it's like, what, have you joined the cult? Did you drink the Kool Aid? You know, how come you're acting strange when all I'm doing is trying to be guided by something more internal? How do we cope with the pressure of that change, that shift from here to here?
Well, first of all, I think it's very gradual. There's no reason why it has to be an extreme. And secondly, it doesn't really take an enormous amount of time. It's a flash point of awareness where you're asking simple questions. If we still want to go to college, we'll still go to college. Of course, if we still want to succeed, which most of us will, we'll still succeed. The difference is we'll be breathing a.
Little bit more in a calm way.
The difference is we'll be more aware of our tone of voice. The difference is we'll have a radar that's looking for kinder people. The difference is the lovers that we would choose to have would be ones that have integrity. So I don't see there being a lot of loss. And whatever is given away is given away because there's an internal gain. There's a sense of well being that comes from being in touch with both where we're hurting and how to take care of ourselves.
