RESPONSIBILITY (Why, When and How To Take It) - Teal Swan -

Responsibility is the cornerstone of awakening. Essentially, what responsibility is, is owning your own life. You can see how the word responsibility is in essence the ability to respond. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself. Being a highly empowered state, it is the opposite of victimhood. In this episode, Teal teaches us how to take responsibility in a healthy way.

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Teal Swan is a revolutionary for personal transformation and is one of The Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the world. As a renowned author, speaker and social media star, she travels the world teaching self-development and teaching people how to transform their emotional, mental, physical and spiritual pain.

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[jamesdaley]

yeah, hahahaaa, imagine going to class in high school, and one session is spirituall awakening with miss swan, questions like miss why am i here, and the teacher acutually answers that question with intent and positivity, man i would have gone to school every day , instead of wagging it like i use too.

[mwil]

this is very accurate, its a journey of going thru doors; denial, powerlessness, victim, blame, awareness, understanding, self pity, sadness, anger, acceptance, rumination, confusion, fear, courage, empowerment, sadness, understanding, surrender, peace, love, letting go, forgiveness. that is the order they happened to me.

[skirti]

The hardest part for me to let go was a feeling that i felt like a burden by my parents. And i was loved for what i could provide for. I started disliking my success and intelligence, believing that i was only loved for that, meaning inherently that i was not loved. Took me a long time to let go.

[bearifiablepau]

Guide questions for situations that make you feel like a victim - 14:08
1. How am I a match to this based on previous circumstances?
2. What am I meant to learn from this?
3. What is this pain causing me to know what I want?
4. What positive things have come from or could come from this situation?
5. What can I do here and now to change things for the better?
6. What do I now know to do differently in the future?

[jorymiller]

Becoming responsible questions 14:43
#1 How am I a match to this?
#2 What am I meant to learn from this?
#3 What is this pain causing me to know that I want?
#4 What positive things have come from and/or could come from this situation?
#5 What can I do from right here and now to change things for the better?
#6 What do I now know to do differently in the future?
FORGIVENESS 15:38
22:53 If I were to take full responsibility for my life and really own my own life… What would I do differently today?

[TesserId]

T-h-e MOST Socially Constructive and Beneficial talk from Teal yet. This one is heads and shoulders above all the others.

About a decade ago, I had to deal with this association that blame has with responsibility. I found myself dwelling way too much over an emotional injury that had been inflicted on me, and I realized that I needed to get past it--and get past it on my own, since those who injured me were never going to be able to pay their debt to me. But, when I started thinking of taking responsibility for my own happiness, I caught myself resisting it--out of a sense that I would also be taking the blame. And, I realized that associating blame with responsibility in that way was a trap--one that I would have to get past in order to be empowered and stop dwelling on an injustice that could never be put right. Since then, I've seen many trapped in that place, expecting pay back from someone that would never be able to put things right. I haven't forgotten my injury, but I'm no longer trapped in scars. Others shouldn't have to suffer the same fate.

[shaylamaat]

I'm tired of apathy and crying every month

[laurabryant]

I'm grateful to have found you here. Thank you for helping us to becoming who we are meant to be.

[tpriestess]

It really is quite simple when we embrace taking the next step boldly and with devotion.

[lawrence]

You are very brave in telling the hard truth about the victimhood and responsibility. Most of the people say soft words, making people comfortable on their egoistic view of the world of "I deserve it all and if I'm not, it is not my problem, because I'm special". The point is that doesn't exist freedom without responsibility.

[arunagreen]

Yep 8 minutes in! I've been frustrated for months I've been seen as feeling sorry for myself - so people have said! I felt pathetic. I had ACL surgery and other stuff done to my knee. I'm in my 50s and I can walk now thankful for the surgery but I can't walk far- permanently! Thank-you Teal.

[MichaelHR]

There is so much empowerment inherent in your words. Thank you Teal!

[TheStudillo]

One of the best videos you've ever made. This helped me tremendously! Thank you Teal!

[Omastian]

Teal, I just want to let you know that I just met my sister for the first time in my life, she is 3 years older than I and I am 46. She came up from Houston today to meet me finally because she said she had to meet me. At the end of the evening, I have learned some things that I didn't expect to learn, some would say that I learned some very bad things about my father who has been dead for about a year and a half. Anyway, she is sleeping now on my bed and I just played this whole wonderful video and teaching lesson for her to hear in her sleep, to help her and me I guess. You have made a difference, again, in my life and your abilities are being used by me, thank you.

[fabiolaramirez]

I would be like I wished I knew this before but the reality is I wasn’t ready to hear this message before because I’m in profound state of denial. Thanks so much Teal for opening my eyes but my eyes will be wide open once I’ll take responsibility for my actions.

[umeshkulkarni]

Lessons keep coming to us in different ways, until we learn it. You taught me the important life lesson which I was willing to learn but struggling to understand. So..so.. grateful to you my Teacher
🙏🙏🙏

[nimuyreemu]

i have been in a low vibration of self blame and others blame...but i hv learnt that i need to stop running away from my situations n take responsibility n take my power back..thnx Teal

[maricampari]

I've had synchronicities all weekend, and now...I tune in and see your newest upload. Completely spot on with what I've been dealing with this weekend and so in-tune and well timed it brought me to tears. Thank you, Teal. Your words make so much more sense than mine when I try to explain/understand these things. I'm a survivor of child sexual abuse and the self-blaming, its so real. It does feel better when I do it, but those around me do not respond how I expect when I take responsibility. They think I'm freaking out or just trying to get people to feel sorry for me but, it really does make me feel in control. I often feel, "If I go ahead and bear responsibility, then there will be no wasting time on deciding who's to blame, and a resolution will come faster". Teal, going into the shadows is very hard, but I'm seeing things about myself I never knew, how this victim mentality and other negativity attaches in places you often overlook, because it shows up underneath where you feel you are "strong".

[outofthegoldfishbowletcete]

complete approval of what happened... that's genius!! thank you.

[AnthonyMarkReynolds]

You are a true asset to the human race.