A TASTE OF LIFE MASTERY

Would you like a taste of life mastery … right now?! Try this and see what you experience.

Clear your mind of all desires, fears and judgments, and completely accept yourself and everything in the world just as is. Be a kind and loving center of awareness.  Keep thinking -- "I’m here not to judge, just to bring love to whatever I’m doing and whomever I’m with."

This may not be easy to do. But if you do it -- even partially – you may discover a more consciously aware and able self; a self momentarily free from habitual limitations and negative patterns.

Once we stop being our usual automatic selves (living less mindfully), we clear the way for responding to life in more adaptive, appropriate and creative ways; we live more consciously.

It’s a matter of first accepting life as it is and as it comes to us -- not wasting energy in complaining, criticizing and discrediting; instead, generating high positive energy and interacting from a highly caring and conscientious center within oneself. 

If you can do this for just a small part of your day, you’ll have a taste of life mastery. Try it and see how truly grand your life can be. But if you don’t do it, or can’t do it, consider trying to discover what's in your way; you may gain a great liberating insight and begin the journey toward life mastery.

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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KNOWING YOUR TRUE SELF

Sometimes I’m asked, “If sub-wills are usually subconsciously and automatically dominating me, how do I know when I’m being my True Self?”  My short answer is: it’s like love; you know it when you experience it.

As with any great revelation, knowing your True Self is a WOW experience that may suddenly come upon you. For a simple analogy, let’s say you’ve been living with low energy and poor health for so long that this low grade experience of yourself has become your accepted normal Self. Then one day you begin a health program of proper nutrition and exercise. And after a few months you wake up with a new vitality.  Suddenly you feel like a new person, like the true healthy and energetic person you were meant to be.

Another way to understand your True Self is by considering childhood. If you were a normal healthy child, you may have experienced your True Self back then.  At that time you weren’t burdened or ruled by preconceptions and beliefs. You were free to fully be your natural self, alive with curiosity and intelligence and in touch with your creative instincts. And even though you weren’t your adult optimal True Self yet, you nonetheless were a nascent True Self, authentic in every way and brimming with the creative energy of life.

These are two preliminary ways of understanding your True Self. It’s an authentic state of being we tend to lose as we become young adults and can regain by doing some inner work; this work involves increasing awareness of our sub-wills and the reactive behaviors they cause, developing a central Master Will that is in true control, and learning to tune in our higher intuitive knowing.

By doing this inner work we become who we really are and were mean to be.

Goodness and joy to all,  Joseph.

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WATCH, WAIT AND LISTEN

These are three key words to help lead you more successfully through life.  Each represents a step to be taken many times a day.

However simple and valuable as they are, you may find them challenging; they require making many special efforts throughout each day -- the efforts of remembering to do them, and the efforts of actually doing them. 

The word WATCH instructs us to be observant, especially of our own actions; to be well aware of why and how we’re doing whatever we’re doing, and then of the results our actions produce. If we conscientiously and objectively watch all this, we can get our best immediate results as well as learn to be more effective in the future.

The second word, WAIT, instructs us to be patient; to give everything its due time to unfold. Impatience is a form of unnecessary suffering. When we’re impatient we put ourselves out of step with the natural rhythms of life. (We’ve all learned at one time or another that if we don’t wait for the paint to dry, we’ll find ourselves in a mess.)

The third word, LISTEN applies to the ‘voice’ of the highest and wisest self that exists deep within each of us. This voice is always there, just below the surface of consciousness, trying to guide and advise us.  By making a special effort to focus inwardly and listen for its guidance, we direct ourselves more wisely.

These are three simple steps we can take many times a day. Try practicing them and see what a difference in your life they can make.

Goodness and joy to all,  Joseph.

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