Too many of us care way too much about what others think of us. While it is human to care about the opinions of the people we love, things can go off track fast when we start listening to other people’s opinions over our own.
In a previous post, I talked about the book The Four Agreements. In the book, the term mitote is used to describe a fog in the mind of a thousand voices, filled with ideas and messages from the world telling who you should be based on what the world says will make you feel loved and accepted.
The mitote can come from many places, including our own heads and who and what we allow to infiltrate it. When we allow someone who doesn’t lift us up or contribute to our life in a positive way to live rent free in our head, we gradually begin to second guess ourselves. Perhaps it’s second guessing something we did or maybe it’s even our own value as a human being.
