Learning to Unlearn

Have you noticed that adult life is like a classroom designed to help you unlearn things you once believed? You grow up learning conventions and values of the culture in which you’re raised, and then you reach maturity when you’re strong enough to reject much of it. And the beauty is that it’s better to learn your truth eventually than not at all. We can even enjoy the process.

We can make a game of it. What can I unlearn today? We can feel the thrilling endorphins of going through it as a tribe. How can I help someone who wants help today to unlearn something that has them trapped? When we come to the realization that we’ve lost so much time bring stuck on things that weren’t even important to us, then maybe we can relish the fact that we did indeed come to enlightenment! We are not who we used to be. We have grown up and become a better, wiser, more grounded version of our self.

And there yet remains of future self to aspire toward. When we trade the need to be right and instead enjoy the feeling of emerging into rightness, we see this is exactly what should be. The process of learning and unlearning is part of being human and embracing our humanity magnifies the beauty and harmony of our lives. 

The more we release old views and regrets we held for so long, the more we expand into worlds that offer goodness, well-being, and delight. Let’s look ahead for who we are, not back, and welcome our transmutation.