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Negative obsession

"I want it and I want it now" "If I don't have this, I would never be happy" Have you ever been in a situation where you  made the above statements or may be you were not saying them directly but your attitude displayed it. If your answer is yes then I would employ you to continue reading. There is a thing line between having a healthy desire for something and having an unhealthy desire for it. I don't know about you but one of the many things that my intuition calls my attention to is when I am beginning to have a very unhealthy obsession for something which  is usually rooted in fear and competition. T he thing may not necessarily be bad in itself, but whenever I am aware of an extraordinary desperation I have over acquiring something, I no I need to take a step back.   You also have that ability to know when the desires of your heart are pure and when it is becoming extreme. Be it money, clothes, relationships, grades, food a dream, a goal and even a p

Comparison

  I believe comparison is rooted in pride. We want to be on top and everyone beneath, or at least better than the person that we have visualize to be our competitors in our head, so we find ourselves trying to compete with someone in an area that is not our calling and even if it is, we are not happy anymore because we are putting so much energy may be or may be not getting a good result, but it just gets worse when the person we compare ourselves with does better.  Comparison put you in a very dark place. It makes you hate you, it makes you see reason why you are not enough. It measures your grace and strength with everyone else's. It makes you do things that you would not ordinarily do in order to feel validated and have some sense of worth, it shows you thousand and one people that you must become like to feel loved but shows you through other people's live how you are lacking. It magnifies your weakness and inadequacy, it makes you sad and depress, it brings about sickness,

Scarcity vs Abundance mindset

  "Hi Rachel" "Hi" "I have been watching you from afar of, and you seem very sad like something bad happened to you. Are you alright?" "How can I be alright, don't you know we have exams by 3pm, and it is already 12 noon. I am so scared, I think I am going to fail" " Fail? How can you even say that Rachel. You read all night, and you have even been reading since the beginning of the semester, and you still feel like you are going to fail. What about me who was barely able to read all the topics. You need to stop saying that Rachel. You have done your best, you have studied hard, you just leave the rest to God and trust him for your success" " I understand where you are coming from, it is just that, I usually have this feeling that I need to work and over work than the average person so as not to fail. I am not even striving to be on a first class, I just want to pass and move to the next class" I was watching a conver