You may feel the intense pressure to be perfect, pressure of such magnitude that you feel you can’t move. This immovable plinth is pressing down on you, blocking all movement, signs of life even.
Pushing against it is pointless. It feels far greater than you can possibly handle.
Helplessness and powerlessness prevail. All meaning is lost. Apathy is suffocating.
The only way forward is to be perfect in everything at all times. The only way to be is to be perfect. The only way to live is to be perfect and to act in a perfect way. Nothing else is allowed. Everything else is denied.
There’s no permission to be, just be, the way you are at this moment.
No, you have to be perfect. Never overstep the mark, the mark somebody else has defined for you.
It’s now etched on your brain, on your soul.
But of course, it’s impossible to be perfect. How can I possibly be perfect for everyone at all times? With one body and mind, how can I possibly be all things to all people?
To be perfect is not possible, everything else is not permitted. So what’s left? To freeze, stop breathing, pretend you are not here. Disconnect from reality and drown in the fantasy world created for you by sick people promoting the idea of compulsory perfection. The perfect ideal that doesn’t exist. And if it doesn’t exist, how am I supposed to be it, to live it, to make it happen?
To feel trapped in the notion of perfection, to be infected by this mind virus is torture. It drains your life force out of you with each moment causing you damage and harm, stealing your life from you.
This notion that you have to be perfect needs to be completely removed from your psyche.
Expunged, eradicated, exterminated.
You need to cleanse your psyche from this abomination suffocating you.
Who am I without the need, the instruction, the command to be perfect?
Meditate on this.
Let your mind create other alternatives for your life.
Without this thought, without this notion, without this need, without this command, without this instruction to be perfect, I feel lighter. I no longer feel that I have a heavy burden. Something that was weighing down on me has gone. The weight has lifted. I can finally breathe. As I breathe, I notice my sense of vision is improving as well. I can see the world as a brighter, kinder, livelier place. I feel more alive as well.
I feel lightness and space.
I allow myself to be as I am.
I come out of the freeze response, my body comes alive. It is filled with colour, sensations and warmth. I no longer need this notion of being perfect. I see that it is possible for me to live without it. I no longer need to rely on this notion. I can build my life in a different way where I can just be myself as I am and accept that.
It feels great. It feels more honest and true. There’s no longer any need to pretend that I can be perfect or that I have, on occasion, been perfect and I now need to do something miraculous to get there again. No, I’m just a normal human being living a normal human life.
I myself return my right to be a normal human being again.
Release yourself from the grip of the need to be perfect. Set yourself free.