Shatter the myths

How you perceive yourself highly influences your life choices and whether you have faith in dreams.  To what degree you recognize and value your skills and abilities helps you understand your behavior patterns.  Why do you disregard your potential? Why opt to ignore aspects of your personality?  This all influences whether you struggle with your sense of self-worth.  Ready to shatter your self-created myths?

Its quite common for people to nurture false assumptions about their identity. From a young age, we're all labelled by others.  The words we permit to affect us are often those we allow to sink deep into our subconscious.  If you were ever told you weren't capable, you may have grown to believe it.  You don't have to feel permanently inept or inferior.  Rethink reasons for your insecurity or shame. Consider these three tips:

1) IQ tests don't accurately measure intelligence.  How smart you are isn't for other people to tell you.  Its for you to prove to yourself.  This isn't something you can pin down with a number, an acronymn, or any other test result.  It arises through life experience and choices you make that shape your self-confidence.  Many people have been labelled as one type of person and gone on to prove they are a completely different sort.  You are really the best judge of your own character. 

2) Historical & socio-cultural evaluations are misleading.  You may assume your sense of adequacy (or inadequacy) depends on qualities or skills deemed important by your community.  Not everyone works in a field that is socially-valued in mainstream culture.  The level of external approval doesn't have to influence your core self-acceptance.  Yet, lots of people wrongfully assume their earnings, gender, skin color, ethnicity, religion or other labels alone define self-worth. Identity simply is and begins within. As you permit, your emotional awareness grows with you.     

3) Who you are is not reflected in the mind's self-image. The latest trends don't define who you are. Your mind tricks you into thinking it controls the parameters of your life. You intuitively sense untapped abilities before you gaze into a mirror or read current media. Nobody, not the media or the ego knows you as well as the heart. As you imagine your physical body, envision how it functions ideally, how you know it is evolving in quantum leaps. Notice what happens when your thoughts are no longer the point of reference for health and well-being, time and space. Who or what exists beyond the mind's limitations? Can this be perceived or described?

Comments

[Loving Annie]

Good Sunday afternoon to you, Liara.
Those three things are true.
How our parents create us, how our peers create us, and the how we recreate ourselves is life's journey...

[Liara Covert]

Hi Annie.
As you note, we each have options about how to perceive ourselves, and time and space in our lives. People may also seem to guide us. Beneath it all, our feelings invite the people and conditions soul knows guide us on the journey home.

[Bernie]

When myths become passed down from generation to generation, they begin to lose the meaning behind their legacy due to neglected ongoing investigation of what feels appropriate. Families, societies, cultures, and religions continuously pass on myths and belief systems to their participants and descendants because they have been taught not to believe in their inner selves. The solution is to leave such families and become an ascendant master.

A means of Self Mastery therefore is then to disassemble or lose any old hand me down beliefs in favour of creating an Epic Myth Masterfully developed and created by an intentional and conscious mind cleared of any patterning. One is labeled a descendant because the waning energy passed down from generation to generation loses its luster and meaning since the associations and connections originally established are no longer consciously being attended to where source and meaning for life originally flourish.

In establishing one's own personal story.... one can see then the root connections and reasons for associating pieces of the outside or inside world together where they then work fluently with one another as if they have become a single organism. One then swims effortlessly in their own personal myth or creation as if they were the rulers or royalty of such planned and developed kingdoms. All energies then focused upon in such establishments are accounted for by the mind where nothing is puzzling. There then is only a sense of well being because all components of the story are acknowledged and come together in perfect harmony. Such a Collective feeling then is a Dream Come True.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, to let go of all personal stories and taking any story personally leaves one in a place of eternal peace and tranquility. Bliss is not a dream. Yet truth speaks for itself.