There’s a Good Wolf and a Bad Wolf. A Mr Hyde and a Dr Jekyll. A higher self and a lesser self. Two polarities, in each of us.
And whichever side we choose to believe in, it creates us.
The Bad Wolf comes from fear, doubt and judgement. It puts us down, it makes us self-sabotage, it can even make us abuse ourselves, whether verbally, emotionally or physically. It can be angry, resentful, manipulative. It promotes our limiting, derogative, self-negating narratives. It’s scared and it can be hateful. It’s the little me—isolated, separate from life and others, misunderstood and unappreciated.
The higher self comes from trust, confidence and worth. It’s creative, not reactive. It sees fear and it questions it. It feels doubt and it doubts it. It’s not invincible to hurt, anger and limitation—but it’s not defined by and confined to them. It chooses to choose creation over victimhood, gratitude over resentment, belonging over separation, courage, trust, belief over fear and despair.
As Henry Ford said, whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t, you are right.
What we believe, we prove to ourselves. Whether we buy into the narrative of the lesser self, or the narrative of the higher self, that’s who we become. The stories we tell ourselves attract the life that mirror our beliefs back to us.
We create ourselves.
We choose whether we side with the Good Wolf or with the Bad Wolf. Whether we buy into our fears and self-debilitating narratives or whether we investigate and question them, see them for what they are—constructs of conditioning.