And accepting my behaviour now, without judgement, and which I can clearly anticipate will have unwanted consequences in the future, is not the same as saying that I should continue behaving in the way I am.
If I truly accept that my behaviour now is going to have predictable consequences in the future, which will hurt and cause me pain. If I seriously get that. Then I will find that my behaviour now, quite spontaneously begins to change.
But for relevant change, I need more than that.
If I relax the inherent psychological self-contraction and the feeling ‘that there is something dreadfully wrong’ which accompanies it, deeply acknowledge and connect into the context within which I exist and let in the predictability of the consequences of my behaviour …
If I carefully cultivate my desire to meaningfully participate in the evolution of our species, and although I know this sounds grand and beyond me, it simply means recognising that I am evolving as an individual and as a culture, and that what I do, however insignificant it may feel, plays a vital and significant role in that evolution …
And of course this changes the future in a most relevant and unpredictable way.
And this is a most contra-rational and uncomfortable position to take, and yet if I am to live a less stressed, anxious and violent and more successful life, to evolve, it is something I must find the capacity to do.
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