You assign meaning to what happens to you, and most people let circumstances decide those meanings instead. When you stop dwelling on the same pain and face what scares you, you find the threat was smaller than you imagined. That endurance builds a strength others don't have.
It's so critical to become a critical thinker when it comes to what things mean, because the only thing that controls your life is the meanings you make up. We are the meaning makers, but most of us let the world create the meaning— our friends, the environment, the people, and the reinforcements we get. But if you can step out of that and remember that you are an autonomous soul that's been given the power of choice, that you can choose to feel differently, you can choose a meaning that lifts your heart and soul— that is not to mean you won't feel pain at times, You won't remember things. It's just you won't live there. And you'll use it instead of letting it use you. And you know it lets it use you if you keep going down that level of the same pain over and over again. Those are just a call saying it's time to grow. It's kind of step up. It's time to face what you're afraid of. If you will face what you're afraid of, you'll dive into what you're most afraid of. You will discover it's never as bad as you make it up in your head, and you will feel freedom. When you experience spiritual pain and you don't give up, you develop spiritual strength that people haven't been through it never understand. They'll never have the same muscle you have. They've never had to lift what you've had to lift. And then there's an inner strength and pride that will not go away. That's the value of extreme stress when you claim your truth.
Tony Robbins Helps Her Use the Power of Her Own Mind to Manifest A Better Life
