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You need nót have an opinion

It is likely that you were brought up with the idea that it is important to have an opinion on all kinds of things and issues, in such a way that you now have forgotten to even question the possibility whether this could be different. We do play this game often with each other, and intensely ask for each others opinions and visions, however, this does not make it a truth in itself. The world will continue to go around even when you do not have an opinion on everything. Even better, chances are that it is getting much more pleasant then, since you have lifted the limiting filter you have put on your awareness of the world and with which you taught yourself to identify (thus making it 'logical' for your personality to defend these points of view, to see attacks on these as attacks on yourself, etc.) 

Now seen from the perspective of your personality it should be no problem to come up with all kinds of reasons why within his worldview an opinion is needed, even necessary. However, what you will see him do here, is: first he makes a worldview in with seemingly logics and necessities, and then he poses that since he did so, these ingredients are necessary as well. Now this is turning things upside down. At first there was no personality, then he made himself, however, what you made you can let go as well, thus allowing you to remember what it is like to be entirely without these limiting filters.

A truly different approach therefore can only be found when you do not use the filters, standards and values from your personality. Now a simple remark within your mind that you need not have an opinion on something, may trigger this. Since your personality cannot deal with this remark, you have to look for something else in your mind (or return to the worldview of your personality once again, thus strengthening that). You may even apply this to the smallest of situations, for example when you are looking at something in your room and find that you have an opinion on it. It can of course be applied to big issues as well.

These are of course variations on the question you can ask yourself, like:
- I do not know what this really means
- I do not know what I really came to do here
- I do not know what I really think of this
- etc.

In this way you elegantly start to weaken the basis of your personality. Yes, your personality has a whole story to come with this situation. However, you are not your personality, and yóu do not know what it really means, and your personality simply is not the source to supply you with it. Now this automatically triggers your search for an answer from a different source within you. This new answer will always be some form of a new way of looking at and experiencing the situation.

You will also find out that once your need to entertain and uphold opinions decreases, people will stop asking you about yours more and more. This is the opposite of what your personality wants you to believe, who insists that when you no longer have an opinion on things, you cannot function here, so you better not start at all with this.



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