Power Of Vulnerability

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Have you ever feared being emotionally vulnerable to those around you? For instance, you prefer to hide your true feelings from loved ones and refrain from communicating openly. Following this further, The Power of Vulnerability demonstrates the everyday avoidance of being exposed on an emotional level. For this reason, the general population of society tends to abstain from the willingness to put time into something that can either work out or not. For example, placing patience, love, and passion into a relationship - is it worth it? As a result, these people can lack connection towards traits of self-worth, courage, trust, and accepting the concept of being imperfect. All in all, these traits are vital towards us reaching our full potential. …show more content…

It increases the sense of worthiness of believing you're capable of belonging and love. More importantly, these people or in other words described as "wholehearted" by the speaker, are able to exhibit a strong sense of worthiness, whilst being connected with others. In addition, these people all had one thing in common. It was the courage, "…to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart" or as stated by the presenter, the courage to be …show more content…

However, numbing down these feelings not only takes away the terrible, but it numbs the emotions of happiness and gratitude. As we all know, these positive emotions are an essential towards finding both your purpose and meaning. As a result, this cycle reverts back to the beginning stages of trying to find who you are and this leads to a miserable person in the end. Of course, as our perception of ourselves rapidly decreases so does our thoughts of “...we make everything that's uncertain certain”. It shifts to pain and discomfort then blame. Blame is where there’s no conversation or discourse. It leads to the idea of wanting to ‘perfect’ those around you by dangerously configuring another person to be someone they are not. For example, a parent may want their child to grow up with a strict education and having believed they have their child’s life already planned out. To continue, they force this child to abstain from love and

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