Growing up as a child, and well into my adulthood, I realize now, I was always trying to be what I thought others wanted me to be.
I came to realize that it wasn’t even just one me!
In fact, like most people, I found that I had all these different roles in my life and that each one of them seemed to require a different version of me.
And so I indulged this ‘requirement’ and I played the roles and became the person - or people! - I thought I needed to be.
But through my own mindfulness practices and the self awareness that came from them, I realized that the best version of me was the one that played these roles.
In other words, I realized that I could turn down the noise of the aversion and clinging that came from the roles themselves and I found that what was left was not just my happiness.
What was left was the true Art Burns.
And I feel now that I’ve harnessed some kind of super power and I feel like I can accomplish anything!
In today’s episode, I talk about the roles we play and how all this works.
Would you like some help in finding the true you?
