ACHIEVING YOUR GREATEST LIFE
When we know how things work we can take the actions necessary to get the results we want. So if we’re not getting the results we want, it may mean that we have too limited an understanding of how things work.
This principle is demonstrated many times daily when you do the things that you’ve already mastered: driving, making a perfect cup of coffee, performing basic tasks at home or at work, etc. In such cases, you understand how things work sufficiently to get the results you want. However, there are areas where this may not be so, including one area in particular that’s key to them all, and that’s your own mind.
Here the stakes are highest. When we don’t know the secrets of how our mind really works, we’re subject to failure in many ways. This is because our mind is our mechanism for making decisions and directing behavior. And under the guise of true knowing, it can often lead us astray -- unconsciously or consciously -- and then place blame on others, external events or bad luck.
Thus, we may never suspect that the workings of our own mind may be the culprit. But once we learn the truth about how capriciously our mind works and how to develop a more mindful and stable center of Self, we can begin to live more successfully.
Those who can see this begin to take a new approach to their mind’s workings. Instead of following its automatic moment-to-moment responses, they become keenly watchful of what their mind produces and selectively choose which thoughts and feelings to express and implement.
With this departure from an automatic self to a more aware and deliberately acting self, wiser courses of action can be taken -- we may begin to achieve life mastery and our greatest life. (Those of you know what I mean are by now probably slyly smiling to yourself.)
TO LEARN MORE:
Http://guidetolifemastery.blogspot.com/p/lm-energetics-techniques.html
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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Friday, June 8, 2012
A GREAT HUMAN CHALLENGE
For a long time, science has seen life primarily as a mechanical and material process; an inevitable playing out of cause and effect. It hasn’t much considered the significance of one’s consciousness’ capacity for shaping events. But as the human brain and its capacity for consciousness evolved over many millennia, this capacity has grown and we can increasingly understand cause and effect, foresee possible outcomes and act selectively and creatively.
Thus, as consciousness evolves, the possibility of deliberately shaping our future increases. But there’s a built-in obstacle: we usually develop a set of fixed biases and habits that automatically control us and keep us from responding to life in more adaptive, creative and effective ways.
Thus, the key to increasing our power to live most successfully lies in freeing ourselves from these fixed inner controls. But because the connection between our fixed inner controls and the kind of life we get is not obvious, many people don’t realize the importance of doing something to free themselves from them. Instead, they just become more fixed in their usual ways and undermine their power to manifest the life that they want.
Those who become aware that the key to creating a better life lies in freeing themselves may begin to seek techniques and processes that will help them do this. They may seek a new kind of education and training that can help them to expand their power to truly manifest what they want.
Awakening to this possibility and opportunity can be the difference between gaining control of our lives or not ... and eventually of achieving life mastery.
This is life’s greatest challenge. And as it’s met, we gain life’s greatest reward -- true power to create the life and world we want.
LEARN HOW A PERFECT LIFE IS POSSIBLE:
Http://guidetolifemastery.blogspot.com/p/how-perfect-life-is-possible.html
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
SPREAD AWARENESS ... FORWARD THESE THOUGHTS TO FRIENDS.
For a long time, science has seen life primarily as a mechanical and material process; an inevitable playing out of cause and effect. It hasn’t much considered the significance of one’s consciousness’ capacity for shaping events. But as the human brain and its capacity for consciousness evolved over many millennia, this capacity has grown and we can increasingly understand cause and effect, foresee possible outcomes and act selectively and creatively.
Thus, as consciousness evolves, the possibility of deliberately shaping our future increases. But there’s a built-in obstacle: we usually develop a set of fixed biases and habits that automatically control us and keep us from responding to life in more adaptive, creative and effective ways.
Thus, the key to increasing our power to live most successfully lies in freeing ourselves from these fixed inner controls. But because the connection between our fixed inner controls and the kind of life we get is not obvious, many people don’t realize the importance of doing something to free themselves from them. Instead, they just become more fixed in their usual ways and undermine their power to manifest the life that they want.
Those who become aware that the key to creating a better life lies in freeing themselves may begin to seek techniques and processes that will help them do this. They may seek a new kind of education and training that can help them to expand their power to truly manifest what they want.
Awakening to this possibility and opportunity can be the difference between gaining control of our lives or not ... and eventually of achieving life mastery.
This is life’s greatest challenge. And as it’s met, we gain life’s greatest reward -- true power to create the life and world we want.
LEARN HOW A PERFECT LIFE IS POSSIBLE:
Http://guidetolifemastery.blogspot.com/p/how-perfect-life-is-possible.html
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
SPREAD AWARENESS ... FORWARD THESE THOUGHTS TO FRIENDS.
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