Right on! So much here. Othering is subtle and blatant. We all do it to ourselves by using comparative thinking. Elaine Aron, author of the Highly Sensitive Personal wrote The Undervalued Self. She notes that the biggest factor in poor self esteem is that humans compare and rank ourselves. Art and spiritual practice is a disciplined joy that helps shift our thinking to curiosity and honor of self and other. Being and following creativity is 1000 times more interesting than comparing and judging. That said we still
Right on! So much here. Othering is subtle and blatant. We all do it to ourselves by using comparative thinking. Elaine Aron, author of the Highly Sensitive Personal wrote The Undervalued Self. She notes that the biggest factor in poor self esteem is that humans compare and rank ourselves. Art and spiritual practice is a disciplined joy that helps shift our thinking to curiosity and honor of self and other. Being and following creativity is 1000 times more interesting than comparing and judging. That said we still
need to compare things. lol.
Love love love!! There was alot here! I didn’t have time for the fuller exploration but could feel there was more to explore!