Is your inner strength bigger than your vulnerability?

Question

I have a lot of inner stregth but I am sill very vulnerable..I'm not sure which one I have more of..which one is more dominant..could you shed some light on this?

Answer 1

This is such a good question!
After a lot of personal development and overcoming stuff - I thought I had endless inner strength and could overcome anything. Then right out of left field came something I could never have predicted and knocked me right back down. I'm not bouncing back as well as I did in the past and realise that at any moment an unexpected event can derail all of your plans - especially if you stretch yourself too far.

So to try to answer your question - you may never know how vulnerable or how strong you are - we cannot be all seeing and all knowing. Keep your guard up. (My downfall was trusting someone I thought I could trust.) Don't know if this helps.

Answer 2

I think that it is human nature to have more vulnerabilities than strengths. I think most of us live with some degree of an inferiority complex. It is the people that learn to live with their vulnerabilities that lead healthy successful lives. People that let their vulnerabilities dominate them limit their potential. Focus on improving your vulnerabilities a little bit everyday and over time you'll become a stronger person.

Answer 3

The true inner strength of a person is given by his inner voice.

Conscience is an ability or faculty or sense that leads to feelings of remorse when we do things that go against our moral values, or which informs our moral judgment before performing such an action. Such feelings are not intellectually reached, though they may cause us to 'examine our conscience' and review those moral precepts, or perhaps resolve to avoid repeating the behaviour.

Commonly used metaphors refer to the "voice of conscience" or "voice within."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience

Answer 4

My sense of vulerability is overwhelming sometimes...which is why I fight so hard all the time to keep my inner strength "in shape". Most people who know me, don't realize how sensitive I really am because I keep everyone at arm's length. Most times, it does me more harm than good, because either people just stop trying to get close to me...or they say things to me that would hurt the feelings of someone else, because they think I'm thick-skinned, and I can take it.

I end up getting angry at THEM because I think they either just aren't trying hard enough to make me feel safe and loved, or they just aren't considerate of my feelings...when it's actually MY fault for putting up the facade in the first place.

We teach people how to treat us.