Building up on our post ‘Why You Need to Accept Yourself First to be Able to Change‘, we can go further and state that being ourselves does not only help ourselves change, but will also change the world.
On that, let us quote extensively Carl Rogers from his famous book ‘On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy‘: “the paradoxical aspect of my experience is that the more I am simply willing to be myself, in all this complexity of life and the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up.”
Why is that? As Carl Rogers continues, “It is a very paradoxical thing — that to the degree that each one of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing; but he finds that other people to whom he relates are also changing. At least this is a very vivid part of my experience, and one of the deepest things I think I have learned in my personal and professional life.”
Did you still hesitate? Be yourself fully. Change yourself and change the world!
