Mind your words new age gurus!

Yesterday, a person who is a drug addict (and in a seriously bad place), told me, it is OK to be a drug addict. She says that people like Wayne Dyer and Mike Dooley have told her so.

These new age gurus frequently tell people that is is OK to be different, and that they need to love themselves. That doesn't mean it is OK to be a drug addict, child molester, or in any way abuse your body (morbid obesity/anorexia), or someone else. They say these things because until you REALLY love yourself, you will allow yourself to be a drug addict, etc. You will be in relationships that run the gamut from unhappy to abusive. You will take jobs lower than you deserve or walk around all day unhappy.

THEY know what THEY mean, but apparently most others don't!  I can see how their concepts would be easily misunderstood. People think it means it is OK to be a mess. No , it isn't. Truly loving yourself and respecting yourself, keeps you out of all kinds of problems, from bad relationships, to unhealthy practices.

I guess it all goes back to the book "I'm OK, You're OK". The concept is fine, but the idea that people who are FAR from OK, accept that they can remain horrible people, is NOT the message.
Gang bangers, child abusers, wife beaters....down to people who abuse themselves by what they do (and don't), put in their bodies, are not OK!

Make sure that you really understand new age concepts before taking them to the Bliss Ninny level. The world isn't perfect, it is school. Learn and grow, don't squander it away , then wonder why you are unhappy, hurt, ill, alone, in jail, or broke.

Our lives are what we make them, and no matter how good they are we should always be striving to make them better. We should always be striving to learn new things and do new things. We should always be striving to teach others.

Learn and grow.
Do the right things for the right reasons.



Peshaui Wequashimese




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