Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne Dyer

As usual, I will start out my post by saying that I am not a fancy writer, so please bear with how I organize my thoughts and my writing technique. I have a voice and I want to spread it to the world. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to write.

Top five reason why I don't need approval from people:

1.) I'm an individual and I don't need validation from people.

2.) I'm a loving person.

3.) It's my life

4.) I'm special in my own unique way.

5.) I can't change what goes on in a persons head and I can't change the thoughts that a person has about me.

Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne Dyer p. 83 "Of course you will never get approval from everyone for everything that you do, but when you see yourself as worthy you'll never be depressed when approval is withheld. Disapproval will be viewed by you as the natural consequences of living on this planet where people are individual in their perceptions."

After reading this quote from Dr. Dyer's book, another revelation went off in my mind. The revelation was that I didn't need approval from my peers and thinking that I needed approval from my peers was ridiculous. My worthiness didn't depend on my peers. My worthiness depends on myself. Why am I going to torture myself because I am looking for my peers approval? I wished that I realized this new found revelation when I was growing up. Although true, maybe it was all a part of my personal journey to encouragement and that is why I had to take the long road of approving myself? I could go on and on until the end of time trying to figure out why I needed approval in my life? I would never have progressed in my life if I kept trying to get approval from my peers.

Nevertheless, before reading Dr Dyer's book, I didn't know of any tools that I could have applied to stop the rejection that I had felt when I didn't feel approved of by my peers. I had to apply the skills that I was learning from Dr. Dyer's book. I also told myself that I am an individual and I don't need validation from people. I started thinking and acting in loving ways towards myself. I began to realize that it was my life and my approval was all that mattered in regards to my life. Furthermore, I began believing that I was unique in my own individual way. All of us are different and that is the beauty of being an individual. Realizing that I couldn't change my peers thoughts and opinions about me was a freeing experience in my mind. I used to do everything that I could to make myself less and my peers more in my eyes, because their approval was what counted at the time.

Moreover, I wasn't enjoying my life to the fullest due to the fact that I was trapped in a world of approval addiction. I had to break free of the humdrum that I was living in and learn that there was a world with a purpose for me to fulfill. My world opened up once I let go of my approval addiction. I wish that I grew up with all of the positive traits that I was beginning to discover in the Self Help books that I was reading. I was entering a new phase in my life. The door was opening up and I was walking into unfamiliar territories of positivity. My mind wanted to go forward but there were the times that my mind pushed me back behind the door. I was overjoyed with the concept that I could be different and that I could free myself from approval addictions.

In conclusion, breaking down my approval addictions helped release other fears that I carried around in my life. I will discuss those other fears in future posts.You can visit the other Self Help books that I read to help me on my personal journey to encouragement. I truly hope that someone received a bit of encouragement. You too can free yourself from your approval addictions. Tweet