the beauty of changing your mind

I’m on a mission to post more regularly on her. I’m such a perfectionist that I often take ages editing pieces again and again - so this is one I was thinking about, edited once and am now publishing, let me know if you’d rather I did shorter, imperfect thought pieces more often

x Emma

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‘If you can change your mind, you can change your life.’

There’s a vulnerability to changing your mind. So often people argue or go against one another to prove they’re ‘right’. But changing your mind shows you were never trying to be right, you were just sharing your thoughts and beliefs in that moment.

I think especially now, and in the world at the moment, where so much is right or wrong, where people ignore logic or proof and to stay locked in their small minds. I think it’s a fear of a perceived weakness when it comes to changing your mind. When in fact it is a sure sign of a strong person, who’s quality isn’t shackled to their beliefs.

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Not allowing yourself to be human and change your mind is a great way to never grow, both mentally and spiritually. It can be as simple as someone changing their mind about an unconscious bias - what they find beautiful, what foods they like, what they deem friendship to be, how they value themselves... Any growth comes from change, and the change is often that one we avoid looking at head on.

I really admire and try to live myself a world where I can change my mind. I believe things and I might live by them but I’m always open to hearing others opinions and experiences and lived knowledge to change their mind about something. I think perhaps every relationship we have helps us change our mind and see that that’s good and we can live in experience why? It’s good to change your mind whether that’s romantic or family or friendship - we learn each time we change our mind and there’s a beauty to learning.

Choosing to block yourself off energetically and mentally just because you can’t allow yourself to change your mind seems like such a waste. You’re not open to seeing a new perspective or learning and growing - basically, becoming anything else than what you are already. What a boring life that would be.

People who are so set in their ways and don’t allow their mind to change are often some of the unhappiest, whether they know it or not. Perhaps because they have nowhere else to go.

I know I’ve changed my mind about many things in life: what I deem success to be, what I tolerate from others in relationships, how I see myself, what the best way to rest is. Changing your mind is being open to learning new information and not feeling shame for not having known it before.

We should really be constantly trying to change our minds.

Not having the ability to change our mind to makes us narrow-minded and if someone is narrow, we can never be expanded and grow and open and newer better bigger things into our life.