Once, someone very wise has mentioned to me that while growing up we go through three stages of understanding ourselves and the world around us:
Learning what our parents and society believe we should be like and the societal norms we need to follow
Realizing that not everyone follows the same principles in life
Redefining for ourselves what our needs, values and belief systems are
What makes you happy? What is it that you need? There’s a great exercise I like doing with my clients – we sit down and write out all of our needs and fantasies… Things that make us happy on all 4 levels: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual…