How to be ‘Opinion-Proof’?
How to be ‘Opinion-Proof’?
This is an age of opinions and approvals. For a lot of people, others’ opinions matter a lot. They want ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on social media and appreciation in the real-life in order to feel good.
There is nothing wrong in that, however, when it becomes a habit and when someone becomes totally dependent on such opinions for their own happiness, then problems may arise.
An absence of positive opinion or the presence of a lot of negative opinions may give rise to anxiety, stress, and sometimes, depression leading to serious circumstances.
So, everyone should try to be ‘opinion-proof’ for living a happy and balanced life.
It is possible. Here’s how.
Start by Knowing Yourself
When you’ll start knowing yourself, changes will start happening within you. Other people cannot know you because they know you just from outside. Only you can give your original introduction. Only you can know about yourself in totality because only you can delve deep within yourself.
Others can know you only from a periphery, after judging your behaviour, way of talking, language, and expressions. They may try to know what’s in your mind, but they cannot hear your inner voice.
Further, while getting civilized, humans begin to deceive others. They know how to control emotions and facial expressions. They are good actors who can suppress anything within. Yet, there is a difference between behaviour and conscience.
Behavior doesn’t talk about anyone’s inner truth. It is also not a way of expressing the inner voice. Many people hide their original faces.
They should practice Swadhyay Yajna- self-analysis?
Practicing Self-Analysis
In self-analysis, a man firstly sees what hides within his subconscious, unconscious and conscious mind. He knows, I think differently about myself, but my inner world is full of sins. And it’s self-analysis because others can just guess about us.
So, in our inner world, we are alone. Others simply cannot reach there. But do we also reach our inner world? This is also an important question.
Nowadays, people don’t want to look into their inner world because they are scared. They don’t want to reach there and they live superficially. They believe they are just what they do and how they behave. Whatever others say, they are like that only. So, a man thinks, if others say I am good, I am good, if they say I am bad then I am bad. We don’t know ourselves.
Move on the Path of Self-Development
A Yogi, however, who moves on the path of self-development, firstly tries to know, who I am in originality. Am I the way people say about me or am I something different? He spares some time to know that; he meditates and tries to know himself.
And when we know ourselves, then what others say about us, it doesn’t matter; but when we don’t know ourselves then others’ opinions matter.
So, in self-analysis Yajna, there is an encounter with oneself. We meet ourselves and witness ourselves. And when we do that successfully we become ‘opinion-proof’ and enjoy our life as it is.
Now we don’t need others’ opinions and approvals. We live a contented life and our existence is bliss for us.
