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File: 24 - Seminar 1
Humility.
The awareness of one's weaknesses, ignorance, and pride ---
with a desire for self-improvement and empowerment.
Humility may be expressed with assertiveness, passivity or aggressiveness.
Do you know the differences and how they can hold you back or help you succeed?
Humility is aggressive when it is: (manipulation).
- Inappropriate (poor timing), and forced on others;
- Deceptive and seeks to fool others with insincerity;
- Reactive, and is expressed judgmentally;
- Ego-centered and seeks only to ingratiate oneself;
- Toxic shame based in origin and encourage energy block formation in others;
- An excuse for not being self-responsible and planning ahead;
- Manipulative in its efforts to influence others to sacrifice.
Humility is passive when it is: (deception).
- Unconscious-centered and automatic ... expressed with anonymity;
- A defence against guilt ("If I'm humble, maybe they will let me go.");
- Defended against ("Only weaklings are humble!");
- Indirect ("---- said to tell you that he's not worth it.");
- Denied ("I am the best so what is the problem here?");
- Self-degrading ("I am such a lowlife that I'm just no good for anything");
- Absent ("Either you can do it or you can't, don't give me excuses.").
Humility is assertive when it is:
- A means to opening the mind to new forms of awareness;
- A facilitator in contacting our Higher Self;
- A process by which to develop empathic skills;
- A recognition of our past errors... with forgiveness;
- An acknowledgement of the wisdom of another;
- An effective way of disciplining the Ego;
- A responsive, Higher-Self centered, liberating, positive shame.
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