3 Reasons why you should immediately stop caring about what people think

Here's the thing. No matter how convincing I will try to be here, you may still close this window and go check how many likes you have on your new instagram post. But since I am so committed to spreading positive vibes, I will still be writing this article regardless of how much people read it, Hahaha! I was in the shower and I thought : why I am starting to care less about what other people think of me? This is so fascinating to me. I wanted to share 3 reasons why I have started to adopt this attitude, so that you can start caring a bit less, too!

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1. Every time you focus on other people's opinions, you are giving away your power.

Personal power is everything. Your power is your energy, and what you focus on expands. The more you focus on trivial things, the less energy you have left for the things that are really important. When you are seeking approval, you are externalizing that power instead of embodying it from within.

You are essentially saying : "I need you to validate my existence for me, because I cannot do that myself". You are energetically co-dependant. The problem is, you can't control what other people think of you. Opinions are unpredictable, so you will always have an unpredictable reaction to your external reality.

However, what you can control is how you feel about yourself.

2. The entire universe thrives on having unlimited perspectives.

This is a bit more complex. The universe itself is experiencing consciousness through each living being. It is able to survive and thrive through diversifying itself and experiencing an unlimited amount of perspectives, across all species, genders, cultures, thoughts, emotions and experiences.

Any opinion you can imagine about something exists. If you want to find someone that will love you exactly as you are, that person exists. There is also someone out there that will hate everything that you are. You could be praised for being the most beautiful, intelligent, and kind person on the planet, and still, someone out there will disagree.

Caring about what people think is kind of like neurotically looking at a rainbow to see if it will ever not have any colour. Opinions will always exists, that is part of our reality.

3. If you want to live an extraordinary life, you will disappoint some people

We are so afraid to disappoint our family, our friends, our loved ones. We end up living a life fulfilling other people's expectations, and not a life of purpose. When we are afraid of what people think, we tend to play it small. We don't want to risk disappointing anyone by refusing to be what they think we should be.

If you want to live an extraordinary life, you will end up disappointing some people. That is inevitable. You have to prioritize your own happiness above all else, and that sometimes requires you to say no to other people's demands.

When you claim your power, the people around you may react negatively and develop strong opinions, because they are used to your co-dependancy. Be unapologetically yourself, anyway. Become an example of someone that takes control of their own destiny.

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