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The agreements and beliefs we store in our heads stop us from seeing the truth \u2013 that justice, beauty, joy, and freedom can be our personal dream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This inability to see the truth is a <strong>fog of perception <\/strong>the Toltecs called a <strong>mitote<\/strong>. The mitote clouds our vision, so we can\u2019t see who we really are. We can\u2019t see that we\u2019re not free. We create an image of who we should be in order to be liked, loved and good enough. But this image isn\u2019t real.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We even harm ourselves to be accepted by others. (Think of the teenager who takes drugs or starves herself to be accepted, or of someone who stays in an abusive relationship.) When we accept self-abuse, we learn to tolerate abuse from others because of an inner belief: \u201cI deserve it.\u201d A false image of perfection makes us reject ourselves and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mitote, the chaos in our minds, leads to misunderstandings and misinterpretations.<\/strong> We simply don\u2019t perceive things the way they truly are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Here\u2019s an example: You\u2019re at the mall. Someone you know and like gives you a warm smile from a distance. You decide she likes you. Loves you! You\u2019re going to be so happy together. You create a fantasy that likely has no semblance of reality. You set yourself up for disappointment, embarrassment or heartache. You potentially put that person in an awkward position. (Shortform note: this example is a bit odd, but was in the original book.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitote is also caused by gossip. Gossip spreads, whether it\u2019s being mindlessly repeated or spread intentionally as a calculated effort to bring someone down. The contagious poison of gossip creates what the Toltecs called the <strong>mitote<\/strong>. The mitote is defined as \u201cthe chaos of 1,000 voices all trying to talk at once in the mind.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prelude to a New Dream<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have tons of agreements with the outside world, but the most important are the internal ones we have with ourselves \u2013 telling us who we are and what we can do. These internal agreements create and limit our reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we want a life of joy, <strong>we must break these harmful agreements that promote suffering and failure.<\/strong> We must <strong>adopt four new agreements <\/strong>to replace the old, harmful ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this book summary we\u2019ll cover each of the new agreements in detail, and then talk about how to dismantle the old agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These four agreements will give us the tools to create a healthy, positive new dream.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is Mitote? The concept can be confusing and vague. The outside dream \u2013 the world \u2013 is full of unpleasantness, drama, violence, fear, war and injustice. Fear and false beliefs control the outside dream. Because we\u2019re integrated strongly into this outside dream, our personal dream is also ruled by fear. The agreements and beliefs we store in our heads stop us from seeing the truth \u2013 that justice, beauty, joy, and freedom can be our personal dream This inability to see the truth is a fog of perception the Toltecs called a mitote. The mitote clouds our vision,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritual","tag-the-four-agreements","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is Mitote? from the Four Agreements - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is mitote? How does it arise? 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