Escape the Demon of Approval
A New Way of Being
Simon Mundie
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
One of the first mistakes the ego makes is to confuse approval with love. From early childhood, we learn to feel good when we’re praised and uncomfortable when we’re not. Without noticing, we start organising our lives around being approved of rather than being true to ourselves.
That’s how we end up:
· People-pleasing instead of setting boundaries
· Staying small instead of taking risks
· Needing others to respond a certain way before we can feel okay
I call this the demon of approval.
And you can’t be free of it until you can clearly see it.
Tonight I’m running a free live session on this — how to see the pattern clearly, feel what comes up when you stop feeding it, and begin acting from something deeper than the need for approval
If this resonates, you’re very welcome to join - register here: ESCAPE THE DEMON
It starts at 7pm UK time and I will start with a short meditation to show how approval keeps the ‘me mind’ hooked. There will also be plenty of time for questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am running a free webinar tonight on escaping the demon of approval. There are |
| 0:08.0 | limited spaces and it's at 7 o'clock UK time online on Zoom. Now this pattern is something I see in |
| 0:15.3 | every single person I work with and in truth everyone I know. It absolutely used to be true for me too, |
| 0:23.3 | but now I can sincerely say I'm free. So do come along to tonight's webinar. Registration. |
| 0:31.7 | So do come along to tonight's webinar if you can. As I say, spaces are limited and you can |
| 0:37.0 | register in the show notes. |
| 0:39.1 | But first. |
| 0:49.8 | The first mistake the ego makes is to mistake approval for love, and then to get hooked on approval, |
| 0:59.3 | where we can stay for the whole of our lives if left unchecked. |
| 1:03.6 | The process is unavoidable, but there is a way out. |
| 1:08.2 | And awake people can absolutely escape the demon of approval. When we are children, |
| 1:16.1 | what happens is the me mind comes online and starts to personalize things that are entirely |
| 1:24.9 | impersonal. If you say to a small child, well done, they can swell up with pride, |
| 1:31.5 | or you say, don't do that, they can shrink in shame. |
| 1:35.1 | I see this with our youngest daughter, who's two years old, |
| 1:40.1 | and she is a dab hand at helping tidy up with a dustpan and brush. |
| 1:46.6 | And we said, well done the other day. |
| 1:49.5 | And she was elated. |
| 1:51.4 | And it was so clear she wanted to do more helping. |
| 1:54.2 | So she was already creating this identity around being a helper. |
| 1:59.7 | And then a couple of days ago, |
| 2:02.2 | she picked up a ball |
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