Understand
who you are?
In order to take control of your life, it’s important to gain
understanding of “who you are”? Our self image, which is picture of ourselves
that we hold in our mind. All that we do, our actions, feelings, our behavior
and our abilities, are consistent with this picture formed in mind. We act as a
kind of person we think we are. What we need to know is that as long as we hold
onto that picture, no amount of willpower, determination or commitment will
cause us to be any other way, because we will always act as we see ourselves.
Mental Blueprint:
We collect hundreds and thousands of ideas about ourselves as
being good or bad, wise or stupid, confident or fearful and so on. These all
false identities harden into our self- image. This self created self image
either allows us to be happy and successful or suffer failure and be sad. Within
us is a mental blueprint. Its picture of the way that we think we are. But,
this blueprint in not who we are, but who we think we are.
The circumstances that formed our self image may have been
totally different, but as far as we are concerned they are true. We most of the
time can’t even consciously recall how or from where we obtained this false
information.
The Ages and The Secret
The secret of ages, the one most incredible truth that very
few realize, is that at the being level, which we will call our Higher Self, we
are spiritually whole, and perfect. Just as a drop of water has all the qualities
of the ocean, same way we all have all the qualities of the Creator within us.
Each religion, science and philosophy teaches that there is
only ONE POWER in the universe, and we are with the Power. You and I are
individualized expressions of all the Power of the universe. This is Higher
Self. Higher Self can never be destroyed within us. We can only deny that it’s
there, we can try to hide from it and lie about it, but we cannot change the
fact that it’s we who we are. We all only need to recognize “who we are” and
learn how to channel it through right thoughts.
We all must understand the difference between who we are and
what actually we do. We are spiritually perfect and what we do is not perfect. The
gap between two is created through our ignorance. Let’s do one exercise right now. Just say to
yourself. “I know that I am spiritually perfect.” Now listen to the little
voice in your head. It must be saying ‘no I am not’. The affirmation of
perfection threatens your ego. Ego immediately sends back the response, ”what
do you mean you’re perfect? Come on take a good look at yourself. You’re always
complaining, how about the way you treat yourself and others around, your
mother, father, boss, colleagues and so on.
Your Ego is Actually
Tricking you.
You can see your ego does not want you to look good at yourself.
It want you to recall all the bad behavior and notions you have for other,
recall all bad that you have done in the past. It wants to identify with your
actions and feel guilty. You must recognize that your ego is trying to trick
you. This not the truth about you.
The only way out of this is affirm your own perfection. Do not
forget the first and most essential step in changing your life, no matter what
you want to be, do or have, is to recognize your inner self as perfect, based
upon the truth about you, that you are spiritually whole and complete.
Balancing your Ego:
There are many ways to balance your ego and the most
important is love yourself without limits. Loving yourself will not blot your
ego. It will actually neutralizes your ego, because ego isn’t about loving
yourself. We all need to understand that
life is consciousness. This means that what we assume to be true will become
real for you. Whatever we are conscious of, we will experience. We will
experience in life what we all are deeply convinced is so. If your thoughts
says your worthless your conscious will let you experience situations where you
will find yourself worthless and if your thoughts will say I am the best among all
and I deserve all the happiness you will experience such situations in life.
The bottom line is this: if we all cannot accept ourselves,
that we’re worthy and deserving, then we cannot accept that other people are
worthy and deserving, and will therefore be in judgment of them.
Solution to this is only love yourself unconditionally. This is
only the way that can ever be free. We must totally accept ourselves first and
then others.
Never Reject
Yourself
It’s very important to look at the personality that you’ve
created. One reason you keep yourself from doing this is because you’ve been an
imitator. It’s important to understand that nobody can create a self from
scratch. Everyone has to do the same thing. We all choose from what is
available. And we all must have built our personality through imitations. No one
must have put together the same combination. For instance: There are only
twelve notes in the musical scale, but hundreds and thousands of unique and
beautiful combinations. It’s all about how they are put together.
Self Acceptance Means
Beginning of Freedom
We all have allowed our ego to dominate us and let us believe
that we are incompetent, insecure, stupid, bad, evil, unworthy and so on. All of
this can be summed up as poor self esteem or poor self image. Until we make a
conscious decision to change our thought patterns, we will continue to have
poor self esteem. Just accept yourself, to love who you are to be yourself. Only
when you begin to love yourself you begin to love others. People often say
forgot about yourself and love others first, care for others first, but it don’t
work that way. The truth is you must first love yourself, first change
yourself, only than you can step in to change others. Motivation begins from
inside not from reading books and articles of great writers. How you treat
yourself will create your behavior and this behavior creates your environment
or your end results.
Remember you will always be a failure in
someone’s eyes. You will never win everyone over, sometimes not even a
majority. You simply can’t please anyone, so learn to please yourself and enjoy
who you are.
Thanks all readers.
Love and Peace from
the author.