I don't know about you, but I am sure that I am my hardest critic. So when Steven Conway, at my most recent iPEC weekend, had us sit with the concept: "You cannot make a mistake.", I sat with it!
My thoughts: We don't deliberately make mistakes, rather they are accidental. In any moment, aren't we all doing the best we can to move though life given our current circumstances? So, couldn't a mistake be a series of actions or decisions that lead to an outcome, that we don't like? It's easy to look back and say whoa, that was a mistake...but was it at the time? As Alexander Pope so famously says: To err is Human; to Forgive, Divine... From a Yogis Perspective: Sutra 2.35: “ahimsā-pratiṣthāyām tat-sannidhau vaira-tyāgaḥ” Patanjali introduces ahimsa: non-violence, the first of the Yamas, the yogic principles of social discipline. No violence includes negative thoughts about yourself and others. If we are doing the best we can when a "mistake" occurs is it a "mistake"? This line of thought does not release us from the consequence of the decisions and actions, yet it does offer an opportunity to give yourself a little grace and to learn and grow. Own it, do better. Food for Thought: Can you apply this perspective to what you may consider past mistakes?
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