When it comes to adopting beliefs, patterns and mindsets. Another method of discerning whether it is to serve you and others. Is to operate with a totality amendment. A guiding prompt of:

“If everyone was to do xyz pattern/consistent action/habit/belief/adopt mindset would the world improve?”

This prompt sufficiently clears many destructive behaviors. For if everyone decided to overeat and lack in exercise all while shooting toxic stimulants up their veins, the progression of the world, that being defined as humanity and collective progression of society and all things affected by it, would take a larger turn for the worse.

If all decided to be selfish, then it takes a turn for the worse.

Conversely, if all decided to exercise consistently, to eat proper nutrient-dense foods, and go out and enjoy the sunlight… the world would take a turn for the better. This prompt constructs a framework from which self-serving beliefs and patterns of narcissism can be differentiated from those that may seem arrogant and yet are constructive nonetheless. For example:

Extreme confidence in oneself in being able to solve any problem given the time, could come across as self-centered, and yet if all the world adopted this belief, we would find it became better.

Inversely, if all the world found themselves to be unconfident and incapable of solving any problem lest it be ‘stupidly easy’, we would find our civilization took a turn for the worse.

Within this framework, self-love applies as a belief that serves us tremendously and the world as a whole. Through self-love we find self-acceptance, and if we can find acceptance of ourselves, then we can find acceptance of all else.

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