November 23, 2007

Change the World: Think Our Way Out of the Box

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:11 am

We Make Our Reality

Change the World!

It’s only sensible that we make our reality. What we perceive comes through the filter of what we have experienced before.

When I used go home to visit my family for holidays, every trip was a stress. I felt they didn’t see me.

Families have a way of bringing us back to our “role” in the group dynamic. I would return telling people how my siblings thought I was still 12 years old. I thought they were self-centered in doing this.

Couldn’t have been me? Could it?

Silly me. It sure was all my own doing. I thought they put me in a box, but I was finding that box and crawling right into all by myself. Sometimes the roles we play in a group dynamic are so comfortable, so much easier than being fully present. We gravitate to old roles without being aware that we’re choosing them, and then we decide that it’s something that other folks are deciding for us.

Head and heart, when all of our parts are connected together. That’s when we really have a soul. That’s when we know how to listen — to ourselves and others. Our cells resonate with the sound of life like drops in that pool.

We imagine other people in our own image and likeness. When we guess what they’re thinking we’re really imagining what we, ourselves, might think were we them.

So why not imagine them thinking we’re a fabulous success? It’s within our power to think our way out of that old box.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss


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8 Comments to “Change the World: Think Our Way Out of the Box”

  1. November 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 am
    Karl Edwards said

    Thanks for the wonderful, yet challenging insight. It’s always most difficult to look at ourselves. It’s good to be reminded that it’s also the best place to start.
    I benefited greatly from your presentation at the recent Blogworld event, and am now being enriched by your blog. Thanks.

  2. November 23rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Karl!
    Welcome! Thanks for listening in and taking the time to participate. YEA!

    I have a feeling that I’m going to get just as much by reading the notes that you leave here. :)

  3. November 23rd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
    Aruni said

    So true. So true! How do we think ourselves out of the box? We may want them to think we are great successes but we also don’t want them to feel diminished by our perceived success. How does one accomplish that?

    How does one update the scripts we run in our heads in well worn grooves? Let me know and I’ll be the first to try it out. :-)

  4. November 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Aruni!
    Whether to impress, to cajole, to please, or to save someone’s feelings . . . it does no good to be other than we are.

    . . . playing small doesn’t make the other person bigger . . .

    Just overwrite the old scrips with new ones.

  5. November 23rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
    Aruni said

    Thanks Liz. How about a post with some examples of new scripts we can run through our heads when the going gets tough? Maybe your readers can describe a situation they run into, the negative script that automatically comes up, and then their re-written script.

    It took me quite some time before I could accept a compliment for the simplicity of what it was. Prior to that I would just think that the person really didn’t know what they were talking about and can’t they see x, y, and z about me?

    So creating those new scripts so they don’t feel hokey is an odd/challenging endeavor for me (and maybe others). If you already did a post about rewriting scripts and some ideas of what they should be, please send me the URL because I’d like to link to it from my blog as well. Personally, I’d like to have some of those quick/short scripts hanging off my computer display or stuff them in my pockets/purse for a rainy day. :-)

  6. November 23rd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Aruni!
    Sorry it took so long to answer, I’ve been enjoying my day . . . :)

    Ah, yes, new scripts might be a fun topic to play with . . . hmmm . . . let me think on this one a while. :)

    I’ll give it the proper thought to pull some ideas together.

  7. November 24th, 2007 at 9:56 am
    Aruni said

    Hi Liz - I’m always impressed that you answer so quickly anyway so please no need to apologize to me for a slight delay! :-)

    I look forward to reading what amazing ideas your thinking process pulls together on the script topic. Of course if I can help please let me know!

    The weather has finally turned cold/rainy here in Austin. On Wednesday it was 85 degrees and now it’s something like 45 and rainy. I finally get to wear those sweaters that have been sitting in my closet!

  8. November 24th, 2007 at 10:55 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Aruni!
    I’m sitting here thinking that’s what I miss about Austin . . . it was so warm in the winter!!! :)

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