3 Signs that you move to master your life

Humans will often question, "am I there yet?" or, "what do I have left to learn?" Suffice is to say that if you still exist in this world, you still have much to learn. Yet, regardless of age or life experience, you can always gain new insight into progress. How would you describe your mindset now? Consider 3 signs that you are moving to master your life:

1) You are no longer bothered by what people say or do.  As you evolve to get-to-know and accept yourself, you no longer care about the approval or rejection of others. You no longer nurture self-criticism, justify guilt, fear or shame. You no longer hang on someone else's words, regret what may have been or dwell on emotional turmoil. These ephemeral states are seen as tests. Your inner calm reflects how you are moving "into your own."

2) You are willing to give anything up. No matter what you have earned or acquired, you would have no trouble giving it all away or dealing with conditions if you lost it all.  As you become more highly-evolved, you realize you only imagine worry.  You discern everything you need already exists.  If you decide you can be anywhere you wish, you will be. You begin to experience sharing what you have far beyond objects and lessons. This strengthens your inter-connectedness with all. We don't have to "get anywhere" because we already are "there," right where we need to be. You already have it all.

3)  You realize your perceived enemies are wounded parts of yourself. Anyone who seems to "have it out for you" simply reflects a part of you yet to be accepted and integrated. As you grow to sense your role is to heal all your wounds, this includes loving and forgiving yourself and people who may not reciprocate. Who you really are is unrelated to your physical body and perceived capacities. Your ego is an imperfect filter that you move to transcend.

Extract the extraneous

How many people do you know who can't seem to figure out why they don't have the life they want? These same people are unaware that what they think they want is really what their peers and their external influences dictate. Is something wrong with this picture? Would you rather not decide for yourself what contributes to your happiness and make more proactive choices?

When people other than you dictate your reasons for happiness, they design what they think you desire, but they don't really know you. Only you can truly evolve to recognize what makes you feel happy. When you finally have the job you have been desiring, all the money you want and are the envy of your peers, you will still sense a mysterious hole. Perhaps your ego has been driving your desires rather than your heart? When your heart is at the helm, you set a course to make the most honorable and righteous choices.

Some people assume being happy means being the centre of attention, having certain material possessions, or something that evokes  jealousy in others. When you are happy inside, you are making choices that lead you to feel good without harming others. When you refuse to succomb to fear, judgment or doubt, then you find the money, the conditions and the people to perpetuate your state of inner happiness. This will flow effortlessly.  You realize you have everything you need and always did.

When it comes right down to it, you are not a porter, so stop carrying other people's baggage. Discard what you don't need. Extract the extraneous thoughts and feelings which are in your head but were never yours. Explore why you chose to adopt certain points of view. What did you gain already? What will you gain from accepting that people will not always react the way you expect? What can you learn about your own core hopes and dreams by filtering out the confusion and arrogance that your ego created?

Ko hsuan-- uncondition your self to the core

Ko hsuan's teachings explain consciousness is only experienced when you learn to uncondition yourself and discipline yourself not to permit reconditioning.  This implies you evolve to become unafraid to experience solitude and rediscover innocence at soul-level. 

Just imagine, you realize who you are isn't related to what your taught or what you choose to learn.  When was the last time you experienced a sense of absolute purity of the mind? Will you define it? Have you forgotten this state? Would you like to discover it?

Some people believe as they learn to empty their mind, they evolve to come into contact with beings in other worlds.  Call them your spirit guides, guardian angels or entities on another level.  This place is not as far away as you may assume.  Its simply that your mind is full of doubt and scepticism about what you have not yet grown to understand.

As you learn to tap into what lies beyond teh world you know, you no longer perceive yourself as you did before.  Some part of your assumed identity dissolves and you embrace what has always been underneath. 

In some sense, the identity you have created has to die.  You need to disconneect from your ingrained assumptions about yourself to be reborn.   To embrace your deepest purity is to stop pushing events but to succomb to innate spontaneity.  Raising your awareness is about senseing how you construct walls and learning to break them down.

Discover the wisdom behind judgment

You may have heard that anyone who is judgmental or critical to other people is also unconsciously judgmental to themselves. If we want to move beyond the habit of judging people's presumed thoughts and beahvior, we need to first work on our own self-judging. 

To learn to stop judging ourselves and instead, to start accepting all that we are, means we will start accepting other people for all that they are.  Giving up the impulse to reject brings you to a level of new freedom.  How you see yourself reflects who you seek to be.

You always sense what is best for you, but you do not always listen.  You do not always choose to find the answers within yourself because you create fear and permit it to control you.  When will you be ready to redefine what is best for you where you are ?

If you choose not to have experiences you think you want, you choose to believe you will not realize dreams.  If you decide a vision or goal is beyond reach, then you choose to forget you have the answer to create the life you want.  That is all just self-defeating.

Remind yourself nothing is wrong with your choices.  Some will serve to promote your growth and others will not.  Yet, each one offers a clue to your inner wisdom.  Greater self-awareness is the underlying motive for choices.  Decide to rediscover yourself.

Learning to love yourself unconditionally and to resist fear will disolve any conditioned desire to judge. If you choose not to love yourself, then you choose not to love others.  Choose instead to nurture relationships that you have been blocking for too long already.

Savor what it means to be useful and useless

Many of us go about our days assuming we need to be useful.  What does this mean to you?  By the end of a given day, after you have accomplished whatever has been done, you go to sleep and move from a sense of being useful to a sense of being useless. Could this help to explain why you awaken to  feel refreshed, relaxed and unburdened? If you don't feel renewed after a night's sleep, then this is an invitation to ask yourself why.

In life, many people are goal-setters.  They set out to accomplish particular tasks and their emotions evolve based on whether or not they achieve desired results.  Imagine the positive impact on your life from the moment you evolve to believe that every action, mood and state is useful and useless, depending on your attitude and state of mind.

You may have reflected on self-worth.  You may have thought about what being "useful" does and doesn't mean to your own goals. Why should being useful be limited to a narrow list of criteria? Why might you benefit from seeing the flip side.  Life is what it is.  Nothing more, nothing less.  You can determine that everything you do has meaning and value to yourself, based on lessons that you choose to learn.  You are also always helpful to someone.