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Friday 15 December 2017

Trying to Please Others

Daily Om: Most of us come to a point in our lives when we question why we are doing what we are doing, and many of us come to realise that we may be living our lives in an effort to make our parents happy. 

This realisation can dawn when we are in our 20s, our 40s, or even later, depending upon how tight a hold our family of origin has on our psyche. We may feel shocked or depressed by this information, but we can trust that it is coming to us at this time because we are ready to find out what it would mean to live our lives for ourselves, following the call of our own soul, and refusing any longer to be beholden to someone else's expectations.
One of the most common reasons we are so tied into making our parents, or others, happy, is that we were not properly mirrored when we were children. We were not honoured as individuals in our own right, with a will and purpose of our own, to be determined by our own unfolding...read more>>>...