Reasons exist for everything we perceive and invite into our lives. Most people are inspired by others. We all imagine and create people we admire for qualities and experiences we relate to or aspire to have ourselves.
Yet, inspriational mentors we connect with and admire also silently invite us to grow more conscious of our own true qualities so we can bring these to light. Ponder these ten points that encourage seeing yourself more often as your own guru or inspirational mentor:
1. Stand on your own
Even for a moment or a day, let go of ideas, all that you are taught. Unspoiled wisdom exists within you. This involves trusting yourself more, living more in love than fear. Trust is not about techniques, strategies or tools, but about getting to the root of your character. The more you interact with empowering people, the more you empower and listen to yourself, the more you are accepting yourself. What is your inner voice sharing? How does this en-lighten or en-liven you?
2. See into the nature of pleasantness
The only way to be genuinely pleasant all the time is if everything around you is always seen to be pleasant. This is unrealistic. To be happy all the time is to deny the full gamut of emotions and lessons available. Every ah-ha moment is drawing you deeper into yourself, to see the origin of your beliefs, projections and reflections. Which core beliefs are you discovering and healing?
3. Notice assumptions and beliefs cloud perception
As you grow more skeptical about everything and everybody, about social systems, policitial structures, religious beliefs, scientific theories, and popular beliefs about other planets, you discover no ideas enable you to get intimate with real life. Getting real involves the willingness to question familliar foundations and bravely remove the carpet you imagine that you stand on.
4. Observe the inner skeptic
Life unfolding around you is never going to be 100% what you think you want. Ask yourself who thinks it should be? See the inner skeptic as the teacher it is. At any given second, a geosynchronous satellite is emitting a T1 ( a terabyte) of information. The human brain compresses 3-4 terabytes of information for memory storage. Imagine the interaction between the human brain and geosynchronous satellites and what we are downloading unless we grow conscious and take personal responsibility. We have the capacity to transcend all that which gives the illusion we are separate from true self.
5. Delve into the secrets of time
How else could you learn but through the invention of time or imagined gaps between here and there? Earth is not about instantaneous manifestation though many people tell themselves this is what they want or work toward. Recall your intention in being here. Be aware of conditioned impatience or the urge to want things or results faster. What is time teaching you about yourself, downloads and your human experience?
6. Mistakes are necessary
If you are protected from committing mistakes, you can never learn anything. Being aware is noticing the difference between mystics and mistakes; mystics see everything the way it is, people who see mistakes judge how things should be. Watch what happens as you grow more solutions-oriented and then begin to identify the source of perceived problems and solutions is the same.
7. See through illusion of directions
What you assume is up or down, side-to-side or in other directions, is arbitrary. Reflecting on the planet as a spinning sphere, if you are looking upward, you cannot ever be sure which direction you are looking in. The only direction you can be certain of is what is outward and what is inward. As you explore the outer world, your inner world grows sharper. Imagine yourself as a pilot in a plane in a wild spin with no sense of up or down. What do you do? How do you ground yourself without traditional points of reference?
8.Conscious choice followed by conscious action
One view of the ideal path is to live with awareness of what is going on energetically within and without. The more conscious you are of what you dream, the more conscious action you take to pave the way for what is unfolding as new realities. You take conscious action to draw out more of your forgotten or hidden self. Notice what is arising within. Trust arises in consciously observing truth and grows as you embrace vulnerability. What truly matters?
9. Stop lying to yourself
Pain and pleasure happen within you. Have you ever experienced anything outside yourself? Who determines what happens within you? Notice what happens as you determine how your experience of life is on this planet is 100% determined by you. You cannot lie to yourself and make any more excuses as the truth reaches conscious awareness. You respond to everything as a way to wake up to the big picture. Everyone and everything is helping you help yourself. Who or what stands out as helping you most right now?
10. Unleash your inner radiance
What feels like moments for me seems to be hours for others. Time stops as I discover everything I believed was me is not me. What is here is there, what is there is here, past and future get mixed up until distinctions disappear. As the fog clears, when two eyes are open, the world of time exists and when these eyes are closed, another reality presents itself though another eye. Watch what happens as Mastering Time becomes a conscious choice.