How do you chart your life?

Many human beings get wrapped up in how to define their lives.  They attach to labels and create associations that further identify a kind of mental map. For some, the process is reassuring, at least at first.  For others, it is very confusing. How do you chart you life in meaningful ways?

1) Recognize that the essence of a meaningful life is not its direction, but how you live each moment the best you can.

2) Accept you have a unique tone, aura, personality and that all you do affects everyone consciously and unconsciously. 

3) Discern negative situations are fueled by powerful energetic charge, yet this is not you and never exists but in the mind.

4) Raise awareness that the only way to overcome perceived emotional pain is to be conscious and learn to see it as it is.

5) Come to see a complacent sense of identity often keeps the mind imprisoned and prevents full access to authentic power.

6) Embrace perceived imperfection as a part of life, a part of increasing self-love and unconditonal self-acceptance. 

7) Discern unwavering acceptance is the end of hope and fear, when illusions of past and future dissolve.  This is presence.

Comments

[anne partain]

I am really enjoying the word dissolve. A kind of reverse-creating, isn't it? When the ego, or self-created me dissolves, the me that always has been can be known.

[Liara Covert]

Anne, the unveiling process is already well underway. One perspective recognizes six realms of cyclic existence which leave karmic traces inside. They emerge as physical conditions and permit systematic rediscovery as part of spiritual awakening. The traces are linked with specific negative emotions and chakras; hatred and anger arise with chakras in the soles of feet; greed is linked to the genital chakra; ignorance relates to the navel or solar plexas chakra, jealousy clings in the heart chakra; pride attaches to the throat chakra; and pleasurable distractions to the crown chakra. Everyone has ability to purify negative energy. It draws attention in the form of tension to invite one to heal unresolved issues or wounds The real soul awaits underneath all this perceived damage. As you work through misunderstandings, all the lies dissolve.

[E. Michelle]

Hi Liara,

I enjoyed this post. Yesterday in my meditation I could feel very strongly the awareness, my true self. As I progress with meditation, the ego becomes easier to discern and illusion easier to recognize. Throughout a good portion of this lifetime I defined myself with anxiety. I used to call it "my anxiety". I realized now that I never actually had it, I simply experienced it. I can see know how my ego was quick to put the label of anxiety on me. I am now discovering life without that label as I am discovering the real reason for anxiety in the first place.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Liara,

Charting our life is an important aspect to see where we can examine, improve, expand, maintain, etc. It's like keeping a record of our car maintenance. When we write everything down, we create a map to the problem and thus the road to enlightenment. I also think that journaling/blogging is a great way to see where we stand on a daily basis. :D

[Tabitha]

What a wonderful post! Great advice written here!!

[Liara Covert]

E.Michelle, the impulse to use words like "my" and "I" assumes ownership of emotions that are not the real you. This is how the ego-mind perpeturates brainwashing about fear. As you grow to step back, the observer within you is more discerning about authentic feelings of love and any distractions from unconditional acceptance. That you notice misplaced anxiety is a stage in soul progress.

[Chania Girl]

It is another synchronous moment for me to read this today. I have been toying all day long with the idea for an upcoming blog dealing with this "charting" of one's life. For me, I like to look at my successes, my overriding themes, look for patterns, understand what works for me and what does not. I praise myself for what I have done, and I look at "obstacles" as chances to grow. Not every "bad" thing is "bad," just as every "good" thing is not "good."

[Tess The Bold Life]

Unconditional self-love and self-acceptance. As I age, this becomes more and more difficult. I must be stuck in the physical and past. That darn ego of mine!

[Liara Covert]

Tess, in a book called The Road Less Travelled, author Scott M. Peck writes, "Perhaps the best measure of a person's greatness is his capacity for suffering." If unconditional self-love and acceptance came easily, then its possible life experience would be less diverse and less rewarding.

[Liara Covert]

Chania Girl, life as a human being is sometimes viewed as a roller coaster. It can be difficult to resist the temptation to judge and criticize one's own choices, even after lessons are learned. As a person chooses to keep an open mind, it is easier to be receptive to change, evolution and new circumstances that arise. You always do the best you can at a given moment and that is worth being glad about.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, what you express here resonates far and wide. People sense when something is not working in their lives yet, they are not always consciously aware and do not always translate this knowing into constructive life changes. By reflecting and writing, one discovers a reassuring soundboard. This surfaces ideas you might find slightly hard to accept. You realize fear does not exist except in mind. Seeing where you stand is where you are.

[Liara Covert]

Tabitha, when a person remains open, he chooses to expand, and his life chart takes on new meaning as well. Nothing is carved in stone. The paradox of human nature is the capacity to change. Every person has untapped capacity to alter inner nature if he so chooses. Reflect back on the early years. What came naturally was letting go of the bladder whenever you felt so inclined. It initially makes no sense to listen to adults who encourage you to behave as they do. Getting to toilet to flush stuff away seemed unnatural. Yet its conditioned to seem natural unless you change First, you let someone else chart your life. Then, you evolve to reclaim inner power and to let go of conditioning to rediscover what is really natural.