I’ve messed around on the guitar for years, and I always considered myself to be learning the guitar. Then one day while I was on the bus I realised that if I wanted to be good at the guitar I had to become a guitarist, rather than someone learning the guitar. I felt a change from being a struggling learner, to being much more content with the instrument and my practice. I started to take my guitar with me and it became part of my identity. Unfortunately I haven’t yet become a famous rock star, and in honesty I’m not that good. But I’m totally happy with that, I’ve apprenticed myself to the guitar and I don’t struggle with it like I used to.
What we believe about ourselves and the world, shapes our world. Our ability to examine, and tinker with our beliefs about the way things work is a mainstay in many religions and self-help books. But I don’t think we are as aware of this ability as we could be. Perhaps if we spent more time having a look at what we are thinking, and what rules we are abiding by, then we could change things for the better.
If you consider this quote:
‘We see things not as they are, but as we are.’
Then perhaps the most powerful force for change lies with our perceptions and the unwritten rules we hold to be true.
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