How can i feel less special?

[PurpleTree]

I feel like with Leo's newer "teachings" there's also a bit of the danger of feeling very special.

"You are God" "you created all this"  really me? sure i did 

 

the thing is i always felt kind of special, especially bad, especially good, especially special, especially ugly, especially cute, especially deep etc.

and it's blocking me in some ways, it makes me tend to think people talk and think more about me than they probably do, which causes social anxiety.

The thought people don't really think or talk about me might be depressing in some ways but very freeing in other ways.

[PurpleTree]

obviously it's the ego asking, so is there a way to make the ego feel less special?

 

also Leo teaches god is everything, so the ego would be god too

[vizual]

Challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone. Realize that you will never know everything, you can't master everything. Realize that humility is a virtue. Learn new things, expand your mind, not only spiritually, but also intellectually. Don't think that engaging in spiritual matters makes you better than others, but view it as something that will help you connect better with your true authentic being.

And focus less on your self image. But have a purpose in your life. When you are engaged with something that is bigger than yourself, you put less pressure on the self through a surrender.

[Thought Art]

I think I need more of this. No more being special no more delusions of being important.

[Loba]

Look at works done by true masters of their craft, and see that there is always room for improvement.

Look at all the details, the work that it takes in order to do this kind of stuff. ^

It's okay to be ordinary.  Being ordinary gives you a chance to find what is special to you, being extra-ordinary requires that you share your gifts with the world and with that comes a certain type of responsibility.  There is less of that, when being ordinary.  

There's more freedom in being invisible.  Thinking that you are special can be a hindrance because it will make you over assess yourself, and then you might not learn as much.

The key really is to be more in your body and really listen to what is being said, or what is around you and really synthesize that in the moment.

This is what I have learned from having that problem in the past and working through it, and it is not really a part of my personality anymore.  School of hard knocks told me that there are many, many, many exceptional people out there.  I don't even feel jealous.  They are here to teach, you can learn a lot by observing people who are much better than you.

Edited September 21, 2021 by Loba

[Preety_India]

Try to know that it really doesn't matter if you're special or not. Simply laugh at yourself. 

Don't take yourself too seriously when you get such thoughts. 

It leads to a Superiority complex and beware of that because it will block your growth. 

Being ordinary and humble gives you more room for infinite growth. 

Insult yourself some times just to be funny 

 

[caspex]

By knowing you're only feeling it

[mandyjw]

You create the idea of special and mundane. Is that special? Or neither? If it was actually special in exclusion of the opposite of special, you wouldn't be able to create the idea of being special. But you can! Because you're neither special nor not special. 

special (adj.)

c. 1200, "given or granted in unusual circumstances, exceptional;" also "specific" as opposed to general or common; from Old French special, especial "special, particular, unusual" (12c., Modern French spécial) and directly from Latin specialis "individual, particular" (source also of Spanish especial, Italian speziale), from species "appearance, kind, sort" (see species).

 

[Tim R]

@PurpleTree I read about your desire to be not special and I can't help but smile

And you don't even know yet that trying to become not special is predestined to fail. 

Can you imagine what happens when you recognize the special that truly matters? The special that is infinitely special precisely because it is not "special"? 

Go outside the house, go on a walk. Go look for something that you wouldn't consider special at all. Maybe some dry spot of moss somewhere on a wall. Or a dry leaf on the side of the road. Pick it up. Look at it and see. Special? Not special? And what about you? Any more or less special than this leaf? 

My god, you don't even know yet how special you already are, being perfectly ordinary. 

[TripleFly]

4 hours ago, Swarnim said:

By knowing you're only feeling it

BOOM.

exhaust it.

 

[jake473]

People don't think about you very much. 

...

I would assume you're identifying yourself theoretically rather than according to the current results in your life. Most people secretly believe they're the most competent person of all. In a single sense they have the right idea, because untapped potential by definition is boundless and you can directly interact with your own to some capacity. Whereas you take everyone else at face value for what they've actualized. 

I've known people like you if that makes you feel less special. Then again, I don't know in what sense you were even feeling that - You definitely can go become as special as you want in a relative sense, although that doesn't mean people will be thinking about you. And not that this helps your social skills. In general, the mere decision to contemplate it and gain experience is what you should expect to change you. 

[gettoefl]

know in your veins you are the most immaculate piece of craftsmanship that ever graced this terra firma

the whole universe has been fervently anticipating your visitation

likewise care not a jot how many will view you and expect to be misunderstood and mistreated

it comes with the territory

be you to full

is the only beautiful

[Bioclassifiers]

Hi, Leo shares the same problem. 

This video is my modest interpretation and recommendation regarding Leo Gura’s stomach infection.

Please be patient with my rather methodical expressive approach ❤️? 

Love to all. 

[Bioclassifiers]

@Loba Great thoughts. Jealousy is rendered impossible by oneness. If you see someone who's "better" or "more advanced" than you, realize that they are you