How can success be everything you are?
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 9:27AM The human personality evolves to crave security. This nurtures our desire for things, relationships and experiences. Being human in the physical world, we convince ourselves we need money to survive. If we don’t have what we think is enough, we sense we struggle. When the intuitve nudge is there, we are prompted to act. But, to do what?
To focus on what you usually do distracts you from where attention is needed. Have you ever asked yourself why you behave as you do?You gain perspective as you take steps to learn reasons behind your impulses. Who or what has taught you to think? How does that shape your views of conformity and external approval? Are these your choices?
What if understanding yourself on other levels is part of a meaningful process? What if clarifying your intention will bring new kinds of fulfillment? The key to security may ly in finding and creating new inner balance. Discovering who you are and separating this from who you were, changes everything. What do you have to lose, but debilitating fear?
As you realize what draws most of your attention, time and energy, you may begin to ask not only what you are doing, but why, to what end? Could you live without some of your pursuits, beliefs and experiences? You start to think there's more going on than you see.
If you begin to sense there's something about your choices, your life, that you're not getting, then you are finally beginning to ask the right questions. To begin to question 'why you're alive' and 'whats your purpose,' leads you to discover what life's really about. Everything you want to know is accessible. You only see what you are ready to see.
Did it not occur to you that body and mind are not the only dimensions in life? Maybe its time to think again, to think anew, to move beyond what you thought you knew for sure.
Reader Comments (2)
Have you fear? Why do you work? Why is a new dimension so attractive and preferable to a life full of work? What would you give up?
If you're completely honest, and only choose what enables you to feel good about yourself, then what you do doesn't seem like "work" and you don't feel lack, doubt or fear. You may evolve toward this mental state. It requires moving beyond who you were.
I invite readers to examine thoughts and feelings as a way to raise self-awareness. Only each person as an individual can discern what ideas such as success and happiness are. The truth must be felt and experienced. Assumptions aren't the same thing.