{"id":4388,"date":"2010-10-21T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T18:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:03:15","slug":"thinking-about-my-self-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2010\/10\/21\/thinking-about-my-self-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About My Self All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Selfish. Egotistical. Narcissistic.<\/h3>\n

There is something scary about believing that wanting a Self is not selfish.<\/p>\n

There’s something terrifying about admitting it’s our natural instinct towards a wholeness that is truly our birthright<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It makes us feel ashamed, judged, blamed. It makes us feel like helpless children.<\/p>\n

How Evolutionary.<\/h3>\n

It’s a new movement for humans to recognize the value in having a Self. And the value in doing things in support of it.<\/p>\n

Slowly, generation-ally, evolution-ally, we are waking to this concept. The Baby Boomers<\/a> were the first batch of humans to understand that wanting a Self is a natural stage in our evolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And yet fifty or so years later, mainstream culture and religion still portray supporting a Self as a gluttonous and silly <\/strong>act.<\/p>\n

Mock It If You Want<\/h3>\n

But the fact is We, the Baby Boomers<\/a> children and grandchildren, are hungry for the truth. We are starved for messages of hope<\/strong> that give us permission to seek a Self. And for tools to help us experience more intimacy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A Message of Hope<\/h3>\n

Us humans, we are inching our way towards a new vision of wholeness where we are more aware of what We can be<\/strong>. Slowly, we are building a culture that makes room for our Self to matter.<\/p>\n

And by accepting our Self we are setting a rich foundation for a new kind of business, an Innerpreneurial kind of business, to take shape into a more sustainable world for Us all.<\/p>\n

photo credit: Clara Zamith<\/em><\/p>\n

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How Selfish. Egotistical. Narcissistic.<\/h3>\n

There is something scary about believing that wanting a Self is not selfish.<\/p>\n

There’s something terrifying about admitting it’s our natural instinct towards a wholeness that is truly our birthright<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It makes us feel ashamed, judged, blamed. It makes us feel like helpless children.<\/p>\n

How Evolutionary.<\/h3>\n

It’s a new movement for humans to recognize the value in having a Self. And the value in doing things in support of it.<\/p>\n

Slowly, generation-ally, evolution-ally, we are waking to this concept. The Baby Boomers<\/a> were the first batch of humans to understand that wanting a Self is a natural stage in our evolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And yet fifty or so years later, mainstream culture and religion still portray supporting a Self as a gluttonous and silly <\/strong>act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}