When you cut yourself off from new information, new people, new places, and new situations, you engage with life in a very surface and limited manner based solely on your conditioned mindset.
You become so fixated on the IDEA of what a concept means, who this person is, what this situation and place reminds you of, that you jump to judgments, and cut yourself off from the essence of all of these interactions.
We have to also keep an open-mind with people we have known for a long time. It might be easy and convenient to judge “who they are” based on their previous behaviors and our past experience with them, but then we only see these people through the memories we have of them instead of who they ACTUALLY are NOW.
We loose the opportunity to truly get to know a person when we assume we have figured them out. People change everyday, and there is always something new to learn about them.
If we can just approach life, others, situations, and ideas more OPENLY and POSITIVELY without assuming that everything and everyone is out to hurt us, then our lives would be so much more graceful.
Nothing in life is set in stone. Life is ever changing and that includes people, situations, and ideas.
An open-mind allows us to welcome change into our lives and view it more positively.
An open-mind accepts differences more easily and does not jump to put them in a category.
An open-mind gives the benefit of the doubt and considers all aspects before making a determination of whether something is right or wrong.
An open-mind doesn’t rely on other people to tell them how to feel about another person or idea, they put in the effort to discover the truth for themselves.
Takeaway
The main takeaway from this is to understand that things aren’t always as they seem. We rely so much on our previous experiences to make sense of what we encounter in life, that we sometimes limit ourselves to seeing things from this rigid perspective.
Rather, let’s use our life experiences to grow in wisdom and openness and recognize that there is always more than what meets the eye.
What you see is not necessarily the truth. The truth exists at a much deeper level, and it is something that has to be felt with your heart and not proven with facts, experiments, and logical reasoning.
Don’t limit yourself to what you know, believe, and are comfortable with… open yourself up to new possibilities!
When you are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually open to the world, openness flows back into your life…and this openness is full of possibility, positivity, opportunity, beauty, truth, growth, and abundance.
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