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Stereotyping personal growth is an easy trap for people that share ideas on growth and awareness; you simply get what has worked for you or what you think works and begin to express it as a rule for everyone else who desires to “grow”. You begin expressing subjective experience in objective terms (as objective truth); you take your way and begin heralding it as the way. In that moment, you begin playing religion.

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And many of us are guilty of this “sin”. The irony is that at the same time we are doing this, we are busy chiding “the religious” for advancing their way as the way. How hypocritical!!

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Not everyone loves doing affirmations; for many of us, this is meaningless noise and yes, we can do without it.

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Not everyone wants to give up watching TV; some of us have football to watch on that coveted screen; we don’t have money to travel to Old Trafford every weekend.

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And just to let you know, we can do without having to run a marathon every year or lifting weights; we don’t like deliberate strenuous physical exercise. We would rather have exercise come as a bye product of doing a sport we love; like football for example.

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We are neither vegetarian nor vegan and that is ok; plus we love ice cream and chocolate

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We don’t like waking up at 04:00hrs to do the morning rituals you suggest … but that is fine because we don’t need those rituals in the first place and there is no specific “objective true time” for people to wake up from their sleep.

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Added to that, we still find pleasure in the 9-5 job. We will quit if and when we need to. And it is not a boring job by the way; plus we love the boss (contrary to what YOU think)

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We love to blog but we have friends who are “enlightened” but have no desire of starting an internet business or starting a blog to sell advertising

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And many more!

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So, when it comes to personal growth, people just want to be happy and find meaning in what they do… whatever it is. The fewer the “rules” the further we will push “playing religion” further away from personal growth.

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In pursuing happiness and personal fulfillment, not everyone will dance to our tune of how they “must” achieve things; allow people to be; as long as they are dancing; that’s all that matters, the tune they are dancing to doesn’t matter. Any yes, that tune may even be religion (how ironic!!)

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Eventually, it’s all about respecting and honoring other people’s views while returning our own opinion of things. It sounds contradictory I know; but so is a kind of duality of existence…just like a duality of forces is what holds this physical universe.

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Stereotyping Personal Growth = Playing Religion but it is ok if that is what we want.

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