If you have ever wanted to make a
dramatic shift or change in your life,
well watch today's video because we're
going to talk about why paradigm shifts are
important. So, do you ever find yourself
in life where you're just in a negative
or unhappy or depressed state? And you
look around yourself, you look at your
life and it just seems like nothing
works out for you. It seems like your
relationships are all unhappy. The people
in your life that you can't depend on.
Everything that you try tends to go
wrong. And it really creates a situation
or a feeling of hopelessness of wanting
to give up. Well, today we're going to
talk about the importance of a paradigm
shift. And before we talk about a
paradigm shift, let's make sure that we
all understand what a paradigm is. So
Stephen Covey and 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People talks about a paradigm
as being like a lens through which we
look and look at the world. And so that
lens sometimes can distort reality,
sometimes it can enhance reality. But
regardless the lens that we look through,
changes what we are seeing. So there's
2 basic paradigms that exist and
through which most people live and
operate in this world. And they're the
paradigm of abundance and a paradigm of
scarcity. And it's just that. When I'm
looking through that lens of abundance
all I see is good and positive.
I see love, I see cooperation, I see
win-win. I see
great creation. I see happiness, joy,
contentment. When I take those lenses off,
the world itself doesn't change. But if I
put on the lens of scarcity all of a
sudden, everything changes for me because
what I see is lack, scarcity, unhappiness,
sadness, pain, misery all of the things
that create those feelings of
unhappiness. And the truth is nothing has
changed
other than our perspective. And if you
look around in your life you can find
examples of situations like that where
just with new information all of a
sudden, the way you were looking at one
thing changes. Maybe there's a situation
where you're struggling financially and
you don't know where the money is going
to come from and you're in this
fear-based
this place of lack that there's not
enough. And then something will happen an
idea or somebody comes into your life or
something changes and all of a sudden,
the money is there. The truth is the
money was there all along. All of the
money in the world exists, it's out there.
But if you don't see it, that's just
because of the paradigm that you're in.
If you can change your paradigm, you can
begin to see things that have been there
all along but maybe you were unable to
see before. The importance of a paradigm
shift, that's more important than
anything else because our circumstances,
our situation, our happiness, all that we
experience in life it's determined by
the paradigm through which we are
looking. And what we are feeling and
experiencing. You can take any situation
in life and you can find something wrong
with it. You can find a reason to be
unhappy. But you can also take any
situation and with it, you can find a
reason to be happy.
So Viktor Frankl experienced and learned
this when he spent time in a
concentration camp. And he was able to
observe the other individuals in the
concentration camp. All of them in the
same camp, in the same setting
experiencing the same thing and yet
experiencing it differently. So some
individuals went through that experience
and they gave up, became hopeless and
either died through just giving up and
becoming hopeless or committed suicide.
There were others that became angry and
filled with hate and took that hate and
anger out on others. And then there were
others that responded to it with love.
And found the positive in that situation.
So that's an example of the situation
doesn't determine what our experience is
like. We get to determine it. By the
thoughts and the beliefs and the
paradigm through which we are looking at
the world, So I can share with you just
one quick simple example of how a shift
in paradigm changes everything. You can
look at things that happen like 9/11,
when the twin towers were destroyed and
many lives were were taken. And a lot of
people experienced that event and
survived that event. But because of that
experience, they shifted their paradigm
and the way they looked at themselves
and their life. And many people as a
result of that experience which was a
very negative experience. And a lot of
people were harmed through that. But just
as there was a lot of negative and lives
lost, there were many many lives that
were changed. And for the better, because
of that experience and people who kind
of woke up and looked at their life and
said what am I doing with my life?
I was living my life in a way that I
felt like I had forever to live or I was
stuck in a job and I felt like I had no
other option that I had to stay in this
job. But because of that experience, there
was a shift in what were priorities and
what was important. And many people made
a dramatic shift in their life allowing
them to experience much more happiness
and a life that they really wanted to
experience instead of feeling like they
were stuck and had no options. Because of
the paradigm through which they were
looking at the world. That's a simple
example but we can find them all around
us. So, I encourage you to become aware of
the lens that you're looking at the
world. Are you looking at it through a
lens of possibilities and what can be or
are you looking at your life through a
lens of scarcity and limitations and all
of the reasons why things can't be the
way do you want them to be. I would
encourage you if you're in that place of
scarcity, take off those lenses, put on
the lenses of abundance, see if the world
doesn't look differently to you. See if
your experiences don't change and see if
you don't find much more happiness, peace
and the joy that you're seeking in your
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