In this episode you will hear about how the outer world can affect the inner world at all times. I was inspired to talk about this because I had this sentence in my head for some years now, 'the outer world is a reflection of your inner world'.

Right before doing the episode I search for this sentence on the internet and funny enough (to me) it was a sentence I read in one of the first self development books that I read some years ago called, "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" by T Harv Ecker.

It is sort of funny to me because of how some things that you read or you hear many years ago can stay inside and we may not even remember where they came from.. Part of the Why of The Better Self Show is to bring you these sort of ideas that you hear and you may remember for sometime after...

The outer world There is a tendency in thinking on the outer world all the time. Weather, politics, economics, neighbors... It may be easier than actually sharing the things that we have inside. The good thing about this is that sometimes the 'outer' things can bring you insights about your 'inside'.

I can give you a personal example. I am from Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands. There when I was on the late teens I realized that before going to study in the USA I found myself complaining all the time about the island.. The island sucks, it is small, there is not much going on here, always the same people, always the same landscape and so on...

With time I discovered that these sort of thoughts happened to a lot of people, and to my surprise they still do nowadays. But the most crazy thing to me it was that when I traveled to the States or to other places I found people with the same sort of thoughts. In that time I discovered the sentence, "wherever you go there you are".

What I learned is that life doesn't suck because of the place you live in. Live sucks independently of where you live. Your inner world is a reflection of the outer world. In this case if you see the place you live in as a bad place, and complain a lot about it.. how is your inside looking then?

Complaining about others Complaining is engrained in our everyday lives, and if you wish I can talk about the neuroscience behind complaining on another episode, just let me know. In the episode I share a personal story where I found myself complaining about a friend's behavior and how I found that whatever I was complaining about I had it in my inner self.

Whenever you are complaining about another person or place, try to see how much of that complain is reflected upon your inner self

Another example. You may have heard me in the show complaining about the guru's of the internet, the happy hippie life coaches or the online marketing experts of the internet. Yes I am no saint here, I may just know that I know nothing.