Jay Shetty
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you're someone who's struggling to overcome your difficult past and don't know how to move forward, this clip is for you. This idea that your journey only begins when you accept that where you are is your starting point. That your experience have made you exactly who you're meant to be with the skills, the talents, the gifts.
If you're someone who's struggling to overcome your difficult past and don't know how to move forward, this clip is for you. This idea that your journey only begins when you accept that where you are is your starting point. That your experience have made you exactly who you're meant to be with the skills, the talents, the gifts.
So if someone's sitting and listening and going, Sean, that's so hard for me to accept that I am where I need to be because my life's just been full of you know, the worst, horrible, difficult things, how do I accept and start from there? What would you say to them?
So if someone's sitting and listening and going, Sean, that's so hard for me to accept that I am where I need to be because my life's just been full of you know, the worst, horrible, difficult things, how do I accept and start from there? What would you say to them?
Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I feel like it's the resistance to acceptance that blocks us.
Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I feel like it's the resistance to acceptance that blocks us.
We're going in the opposite direction. It's telling you it's going in this direction, and you're trying to force it to go in the other direction, and that's what's causing tension. And accepting it means, like you said, not that you're giving up and you're like, all right, well, I'll just do what you want. It's going, no, this is how it's flowing. Now what am I going to do?
We're going in the opposite direction. It's telling you it's going in this direction, and you're trying to force it to go in the other direction, and that's what's causing tension. And accepting it means, like you said, not that you're giving up and you're like, all right, well, I'll just do what you want. It's going, no, this is how it's flowing. Now what am I going to do?
Yeah, for sure. What's the... You know, when you're manifesting, as we're talking about this, like finding your path, what's the difference between attracting energy and chasing energy?
Yeah, for sure. What's the... You know, when you're manifesting, as we're talking about this, like finding your path, what's the difference between attracting energy and chasing energy?
What's been the most difficult thing you've ever had to accept?
What's been the most difficult thing you've ever had to accept?
Give me an example.
Give me an example.
Which is so hard.
Which is so hard.
It's so hard, isn't it?
It's so hard, isn't it?
And I loved what you said, that when you get fixated on what other people think of you, you're just getting distracted from your path. Of course. Because now you're placing energy on, and then you might even shift what you're doing to try and appease them, and then they still won't like it. And that's the craziest part, right? You do what you want, and they don't like it.
And I loved what you said, that when you get fixated on what other people think of you, you're just getting distracted from your path. Of course. Because now you're placing energy on, and then you might even shift what you're doing to try and appease them, and then they still won't like it. And that's the craziest part, right? You do what you want, and they don't like it.