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Thursday, October 07, 2010

SELF-IMAGE

"I" is the centre of the universe
Around which the rest of the world revolves
Once every 24 hours.
Ego declares:
"I" is God in "my" world.

And you are God in yours, too.

Well, we both are god -- more than we realise,
Because our concept of godness
Is limited by ego which thinks of "god"
As some kind of Super-dad on steroids.
What we think of God and of ourselves
Is as much like the real thing
As reading some journalist's review
Of a real, 24-course Chinese banquet.

But what we privately think of our selves (plural intended)
Is really important.
There are some things that may be hidden from your friends,
But cannot be hidden from
The more awareful bits of creation.

Our own deep, unconscious self-appraisal
Seeps and radiates out into our magnetic field
Attracting experiences, opportunities and relationships
That mirror back to us
What "I" thinks of "Me".

The reason we don't readily make that connection
Is that, having separated our selves from our Self,
Having developed a false-self
And put that in charge of running our business
While we skived off into self-imposed exile,
We often have little idea of what's really going on
And of what we are really thinking and feeling.
We barely listen to what we say, to ourselves or to others,
We mis-read the effect we're having,
And we pull up at the end of each day in a bit of a mess.
But we put a lot of that down to "good luck" or "shit happens".
We get stuck on a wheel of repeating (mis)fortunes.
[Why does this keep happening to me?]

As we grow to own, accept and love more of what we are,
And become more aware of the thoughts and feelings that flow on through
We get a growing sense of choice
About what we want to experience,
And a healthy respect for a creative Awareness
That knows just how to put together
What we've put out for.

If we're not getting what we want,
I see two possible reasons:
a) What we say we want, and what we're actually putting out for via our aura may be very much at odds with each other: and
b) There may be some unfinished business or preparatory lessons we need to learn before we qualify for what we want.

Either way, we're being invited to look in available mirrors
And check our self-image.
What mirrors?
The people in front of us. Who else?
And not through what they tell us to our face,
But through what we see in them.
Whatever we see in the person in front of us right now,
Is our own self-image being reflected back to us.

The more genuine our self-honesty,
The closer we get to experiencing
An ultimate truth about how creating works from Self-Image ----

We think it -- it happens.
That's how it is. And it is that fast.
And that powerful!
Victim or victor,
Every last one of us is that powerful.
We are god
Saddled with a self-image,
Just for the hell of it..

The initiating thoughts we get about ourselves
Are limited
Because they're pre-filtered by how we feel about ourselves.
What we think about ourselves comes "true" --
We feel that back into real, confirming experience. 
Whatever we think and feel about ourselves,
Is confirmed. Always. 
We get to be right -- our ego sees to that.

It's utterly futile to sit with a lousy self-image,
Waiting for circumstances to change our minds for us;
That isn't going to happen!!!
If we want to permanently change our experience of anything
We first have to transform how we FEEL about ourselves.

Positive Thinking has nothing to do with it;
This kind of transformation happens out of mind.
You cannot reason your way out of anything
That was not reasoned into in the first place.
Our self-image was felt into existence,
It feeds off self-generated feelings,
And will need to be felt
Into something more useful.

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