Wayne Dyer's Epiphany
Wayne Dyer is a pretty upbeat guy. His enthusiasm kind of rubs off on you and you want to be as enthused about life as he seems to be.. He says that regardless of anything that happened to us in this life, or a possible past life, we are all responsible for where we are now, for our actions and feelings. We made the decisions that brought us to the place we now occupy and we need to stop blaming the past and others for our situation. The good news is that we can change things
Dyer had an epiphany which brought him to this philosophy. It happened when he forgave his father after years of being mad at this man he had never met. He wants to help others to achieve this same happy state by telling his story of how forgiveness changed him.
In addition to forgiveness intentions matter. If we intend for certain things to happen, those things will come our way.
I’m sure his books and teachings will help some people and I believe him when he says that we need to forgive, but it is annoying when people assume that what worked for them will work for others. They assume it to the extent that they insist that their way is THE way and it will work for everyone. His was such a personal experience, and it almost seems thrust upon him. He had an issue that he faced and overcame and it improved his life. His circumstances are nothing like mine and although we can all generalize the things he says to our own lives, we can’t duplicate them and we aren’t replicates of him.
When we can’t do what the “self-help gurus” tell us we need to do to be happy, we feel like failures, that we will never be able to do anything to improve our lives.
In Dick Robertson’s Control Theory terms, Dyer reorganized his way of perceiving the world. That is what we all could use a bit of – reorganization of our perceptions. It is an individual task that can’t be taught us by others. According to the control theory model one way to reorganize is to make random movements. In other words, do things. Not the same old things, but new things. Anything.
We may all be responsible for where we are now and what we do in the future but how we transcend our problems and limitations is as individual as we are.
Dyer had an epiphany which brought him to this philosophy. It happened when he forgave his father after years of being mad at this man he had never met. He wants to help others to achieve this same happy state by telling his story of how forgiveness changed him.
In addition to forgiveness intentions matter. If we intend for certain things to happen, those things will come our way.
I’m sure his books and teachings will help some people and I believe him when he says that we need to forgive, but it is annoying when people assume that what worked for them will work for others. They assume it to the extent that they insist that their way is THE way and it will work for everyone. His was such a personal experience, and it almost seems thrust upon him. He had an issue that he faced and overcame and it improved his life. His circumstances are nothing like mine and although we can all generalize the things he says to our own lives, we can’t duplicate them and we aren’t replicates of him.
When we can’t do what the “self-help gurus” tell us we need to do to be happy, we feel like failures, that we will never be able to do anything to improve our lives.
In Dick Robertson’s Control Theory terms, Dyer reorganized his way of perceiving the world. That is what we all could use a bit of – reorganization of our perceptions. It is an individual task that can’t be taught us by others. According to the control theory model one way to reorganize is to make random movements. In other words, do things. Not the same old things, but new things. Anything.
We may all be responsible for where we are now and what we do in the future but how we transcend our problems and limitations is as individual as we are.
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