Greetings and welcome to the "Leap Year" edition of my
newsletter.
One of ego's on-going traps is our
story - our act. As a small child, we developed our story as a reaction to
life, that decided who we would be from then on, or until we are ready to
change our mind. From the perspective of a child we may have come to some
erroneous conclusions about life and how we would have to deal with
situations in order to survive. At any moment we can choose to rethink
our-four year-old-self's conclusion that were developed to protect us!
If we take a closer look at the
foundation of these beliefs it is interesting to notice that the beliefs of
the adults around us at the time were instrumental in how we decided to
react to life's situations. It is instinctual that our ego would make the
connection to create our beliefs based on what the adults around us
believed. If the adults around us believed or made us feel that in order to
be loved and accepted we had to prove ourselves worthy then we would believe
that we had to prove that we were good enough, smart enough, or loveable
enough. Our act - our on-going need to prove ourselves worthy in some
way-would then become our reality trap, a self perpetuating pattern for our
life.
And because our self-concept and our
reality concept determine what we have in our life, we are destined to keep
on manifesting the same need-to-prove reality -- until we decide to uncover
and discontinue running our act.
The Tool
In order to figure out what our act is, we might want to
ask ourselves:
- What am I trying to prove?
--That I am good enough?
--Or that I am not?
Then ask yourself:
-Do I really want to continue running
that act?
-Or do I want to be real and see where
that takes me?
It is a major accomplishment to come
to a point in our lives when we can step back and gain some perspective on
what we believe about life. If we have beliefs that are no longer working
for us but have not yet paused for perspective, here is what can occur. Keeping up a pretense is a powerful energy drain. Pretending is
disempowering because we are not being real. The people we love and care
about won't even know the real us. It may even be difficult of us to
recognize the real us. Not knowing the real us defeats the self-discovery
process, the true purpose of The Game of Life. Others who are being real,
will see through our act and label us a phony.
The irony of our act is that we are
already good enough, smart enough, and loveable enough, but that can never
be so for us until we have changed our need to prove our act. Think about
that for a minute. How great would life be for us if we had nothing left to
prove? What if our manifesting powers were proven beyond the shadow of a
doubt, and we were so certain about life that we could spend the rest of our
life helping others find that level of certainty? We would really be making
a difference. Our enthusiasm, joy and happiness is God's omnipotent power in
and through us as us. And life just can't get any better than that.
Have a wonderful weekend!
DAREL
