We project positive and negative things on people all the time. We might project that someone always has their act together or that someone is always dramatic and a victim. We might project that someone doesn’t take care of themselves or they take too much on.
Our projections, positive and negative, are simply parts of ourselves that we’ve disowned or resisted acknowledging. They may be true about the other person too, but the first step is being able to see our own behavior. Only then do we stand a chance to really see other people’s reality, not just what we assume it to be.
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Some Things I Read Last Week:
This week I listened.
- Home of the Brave: NFL Sunday (2017) “There has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change.” And also Encountering the Other.
- Sarah Blondin: Discover Your Intrinsic Self “I wish someone had told me when I first began my journey into a life of my own that where I needed to begin was sitting on the floor with my eyes closed.”
What I’m Working On This Week:
Remembering that I am always choosing my experience, which means I can also always change it.