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How to Dissolve Challenges
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us check (subconsciously) whether experiences, situations and events fit into our misleading model. Facts not agreeing with the old concept are ignored, interpreted as unimportant, forgotten or not even perceived - without us being able to control this process.
To start growing again, we need to cast off this automatic reaction.
Fortunately it's easy to detect this automatism in our life: Whenever a (new) idea provokes strong feelings within us - repulsion, infuriation, stubbornness and even anger, but also fervent justification of our old models, - then we know for sure that error influences us.
True, solid, integrated insight never produces this kind of tensed emotion. True insight always produces sovereignty instead of arrogance, - inspiration instead of fanaticism, - openness instead of the fortress-mentality of flawed ideas.
We neutralize this mechanism by opening our life to new influences. This means • to give up the aggression with which we impulsively
oppose new, uncomfortable ideas • to really make the effort to review and discard worn-out
and limiting beliefs and • to become aware how much the clinging to old concepts
restricts our scope of life even if all this makes us feel uncomfortable, takes energy and might require a complete re-thinking of the world.
