Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

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To expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. It is to ask a river to give us nourishment without dipping our own hands into the water. I’ve been following yung pueblo on social media for a little while now, and I love his little sayings. When I saw this book had come out, I was excited to read it as I thought I’d get more of that. Whether it’s indulging in comfort foods, staying up late binge-watching our favorite shows, or scrolling through social media endlessly, temporary cravings often override our real needs. Self-love means having compassion for yourself and treating yourself with curiosity. It’s about seeking to understand yourself on a deeper level. It requires being brazenly honest with yourself at all times, building healthy habits, and accepting yourself unconditionally.

Progress is slow and you’ll continue to encounter challenges. Sometimes it’ll be the same challenge and you’ll wonder why you’re still fighting the same battle. Motivation, Inspiration, Mindfulness, Happiness, Religion, Spirituality, Self Help, Poetry, Psychology, Mental Health, Philosophy, Personal Development, Autobiography, Memoir, Alternative Medicine, Meditation, Personal Transformation, New Age Meditation Table of Contents

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Two: You’re looking at others through a lens of compassion. As you offer yourself love and forgiveness, you recognize the work that others are doing and can give them the same love. Growth and maturity aren’t about achieving perfection. Your goal is progress. You’ll experience benefits from progress, and these benefits will, in turn, motivate you to continue your journey of growth. Chances are, there’s a pattern to the things that trigger your emotions. Using the last example, you may notice that your pattern is to react with anger anytime someone questions your intestinal fortitude. Tap into that self-love and take a look at your patterns. Approach yourself with curiosity. Leave judgment behind. Ask yourself what is at the root of your emotional reaction? What do you want that you can’t have? What do you crave that is out of your reach? Relationships are complex. They are built on a foundation of love, trust, and mutual respect. But it takes more than that to make them work.

Either way, it’s important to understand what self-love is not. It’s not materialistic. It’s not about giving yourself a spa day or treating yourself to ice cream because you deserve it. There’s nothing wrong with either of those things, and they can be acts of self-care, but that’s not the self-love we’re talking about. Pueblo focuses on the emphasis of turning your attention inward as a method of healing and creating lasting, authentic and positive long-term change. Confronting ones own mindset and defaults of character is unnerving and requires rigorous honesty. Yet when done thoroughly it reveals the extent to which we project our faults and mistakes onto other people or things. Ultimately, only we are responsible for our own change and growth: 'Deep healing and emotional maturity begin when you turn your attention inward'. Combining his healing practices with social justice work is a key indicator that however he calls himself, his is a fresh voice that draws from the spectrum of wisdom traditions in a way that is immediate and accessible, adding to it with a poets sensitivity and the urgency of a prophet. You have to be critical and intentional if you don't want to be told what to believe - if you don't want to be digitalized, siloed and exploited. p243 Whether you’ve already begun your process of intentional growth or are just getting started, this summary offers you actionable insights into a deeper understanding of why you react the way you do and how you can free yourself to achieve your goals in life.

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Enter emotional maturity – it is the ability to tell the difference between what we want now and what we need to grow and be happy. It’s about being able to delay gratification and make choices that align with our values and priorities. Diego Perez has a pretty good idea. Expanding on the wisdom succinctly presented in his book Clarity & Connection, still writing under his nom de plume, Jung Pueblo, he is doing more than just indicating an approach to personal healing, as vital and necessary as that may be. He is giving a language for a prescription to begin to heal what ails the world. We must tap into our inner strength and wisdom to overcome life’s challenges. We are our own greatest healers. Your first impulse or emotion doesn’t define who you are. It’s a part of you, but it isn’t the whole you. But you want it. And that’s the issue. Whatever it is you want that you can’t have, that’s what you have to let go of. And this letting go is what moves you out of reaction and into peace.