By: Shlomo Vaknin, C.Ht

Person and behavior describe different phenomena.

We “are” more than our behavior.

The idea that we are more than our behavior is a very profound idea. You could write many volumes about this from your own life once you unlock this insight. Let’s just look at how deeply people are able to change, and why they change.

Most people are on the verge of a very expanded way of being in the world, and don’t even know it.

We have no idea what any person’s true potential or destiny are.

Whenever some-one tells someone that they will not amount to anything, that person is failing to understand the truth of this proposition; the truth that we are more than our behavior. In many places, a pattern of behavior or even a single act can define you. The idea of a human birth right, or inalienable rights that many constitutional gov-ernments are charged with supporting, is really a profound philosophical position that NLP expresses as well.

Whatever you have done wrong, learn from it, don’t let it define you.

Whatever your limitations are, get clear on how to move forward in harmony with your abilities and limits, don’t just use will power to try harder, or sentence yourself to a life of shame. You are bigger than that, whether you know it or not.

Imagine the talent and energy that can be liberated in the world as this idea becomes better understood and more widely expressed.