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EP 41: Why & How to Lower your Guard
What will it take for you to lower your guard?In this life, we will meet all kinds of people. Some will betray us and take our love for granted, but some will truly care and stay with us through thick and thin. If we are constantly guarding our true selves and emotions, we will miss the people and opportunities we truly need.A lot of healing takes place in belonging to a community but until you lower your guard, you will not truly experience that feeling and benefits of being in one. Yes, people have hit you hard. Maybe the blow was so hard that you tumbled and fell, I am sorry that was your experience, but you get to determine how long you want to stay down.Here is my advice to you: don't think about how people can take advantage of you, think about how you will discover people who will accept you despite whatever it is you are guarding.I know that being part of a community requires trust. That trust doesn’t come easily because underneath the lack of trust lies fear.Fear of rejectionFear of being ridiculedFear of failureFear of being wrongFear of committing ourselves and having to follow throughFear of being taken advantage ofMost people who have had their trust violated, particularly those of who were betrayed or abused repeatedly and at a young age, have trust challenges. We tend to have little trust in ourselves and we over or under trust people. Often we trust the wrong people and end up betrayed. So we put up the walls. Due to those walls we fail to trust the right people and sometimes lose the people who could have helped us the most.It's a real struggle to be able to come to realize that there are people worth trusting and then trust yourself enough to be open to them.Along with the struggle is a lot of "what ifs". What if I lower my guard and my worst fear is confirmed. Well, here is a what if for you. What if you let your guard down, and you get to know people worth keeping in your life.Listen to this 11 minutes episode to find out more about why and how to lower your guard.
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By Possibility RealmWhat will it take for you to lower your guard?In this life, we will meet all kinds of people. Some will betray us and take our love for granted, but some will truly care and stay with us through thick and thin. If we are constantly guarding our true selves and emotions, we will miss the people and opportunities we truly need.A lot of healing takes place in belonging to a community but until you lower your guard, you will not truly experience that feeling and benefits of being in one. Yes, people have hit you hard. Maybe the blow was so hard that you tumbled and fell, I am sorry that was your experience, but you get to determine how long you want to stay down.Here is my advice to you: don't think about how people can take advantage of you, think about how you will discover people who will accept you despite whatever it is you are guarding.I know that being part of a community requires trust. That trust doesn’t come easily because underneath the lack of trust lies fear.Fear of rejectionFear of being ridiculedFear of failureFear of being wrongFear of committing ourselves and having to follow throughFear of being taken advantage ofMost people who have had their trust violated, particularly those of who were betrayed or abused repeatedly and at a young age, have trust challenges. We tend to have little trust in ourselves and we over or under trust people. Often we trust the wrong people and end up betrayed. So we put up the walls. Due to those walls we fail to trust the right people and sometimes lose the people who could have helped us the most.It's a real struggle to be able to come to realize that there are people worth trusting and then trust yourself enough to be open to them.Along with the struggle is a lot of "what ifs". What if I lower my guard and my worst fear is confirmed. Well, here is a what if for you. What if you let your guard down, and you get to know people worth keeping in your life.Listen to this 11 minutes episode to find out more about why and how to lower your guard.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/possibilityrealm/message