Do you think you ever take away your own sense of autonomy? If so, how? Is this apparent when making decisions in your romantic relationships? Be sure to address all of the questions in your essay.
Do you think you ever take away your own sense of autonomy?
We have the freedom to choose how to live life. When we make our own choices, we are demonstrating autonomy, which is important in maintaining social health.
We are powerful! Unfortunately, we don’t always feel that way. Have you ever noticed that when you are around certain people, you feel like you have less control over your decisions? On the other hand, some people are great at giving others a sense of empowerment. What makes these people so different?
Do you think you ever take away your own sense of autonomy? If so, how? Is this apparent when making decisions in your romantic relationships?
Be sure to address all of the questions in your essay.
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“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I don’t know about anyone else, but sometimes I can be a prisoner to my own thoughts and forget that I have the freedom to choose. Choose a different thought. Choose a different experience. Choose a different interpretation.
I remember having a coach that used to listen to me rant. I would be sure I was the victim of something that was happening to me, and I would tell her all about it expecting sympathy.
She would listen patiently and then say, “Yeah? And what’s another way you could look at it?” I would pause to come up with some different interpretation. And then she would say, “Good. And what’s another way you could look at it?”
I would really have to stretch, because I was sure that the first way I told her was the only way it happened.
Her point, of course, was that there are a number of ways you can interpret things. And we have to watch our stores—the stories we tell ourselves.
How many of us are prisoners of our own thoughts, our own stories?
This week I found myself going into a tail spin about something. And even though the situation justified my being upset or at the very least feeling taken advantage of, I could have still looked at it in another way.
If I did—if I was able to catch myself sooner—my experience about it would have changed.
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