What It Means to Break to the Cycle
Summary
- There are two parts to breaking the cycle: physical and mental.
- When breaking patterns from the past generation, there is one cycle you’re trying break in your current relationships.
- The cycle is the ability to separate yourself mentally from other people. Seeing yourself as a separate entity.
- Physical separation involves leaving our childhood homes when we’re an adult and living on our won.
- Mental separation is how our minds work around these past relationships. What we think and feel about them today.
- Thinking about the past generation consciously or subconsciously or even the amount of mental space we spend determines if we have broken cycle.
- Each person’s thoughts, feelings, actions is separate from your thoughts, feelings, actions.
- Reference episode: Creating the Mind Boundary Episode 35 (see below).
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