5 Lessons from my own life experience

We each have a series of life stories that help us explain why we are who we are.  We think, make choices, feel and interpret everything that happens within and around us.  I invite you to share your lessons about personal success. Here are 5 lessons from my life: 

1) Those people who seem to cause you the most discomfort offer your greatest lessons.

2) Anything that evokes our judgment reveals the source of our fear-based emotions.

3) Beliefs are as as you choose. (Duality--good/bad; right/wrong, doesn't really exist).

4) To accept the truth of our perception means accepting responsibility as co-creator.

5) Views at a given moment stem from insight into love, forgiveness & self-acceptance.

Breeze of enlightenment

Analysis on dream submitted by Anonymous in Melbourne, Australia.

Dream- I was inside a train and sensed it was time to get off.  I stood up from my seat and reached into an overhead compartment to get my belongings.  I felt a peaceful presence beside me.  As I raised the door, I saw a pile of wool mittens.  They weren't mine.  I sensed a draft before a gust of air sucked me out the door.  Part of me knew why.  It was a good feeling, like if I didn't take heed, something key would pass me by.

Predominant Emotions- anticipation, preparedness, hesitation, confidence, optimism.

Interpretation- As revelations blow in, you may feel someone else has been conducting your symphony.  To stand up for yourself, you must realize you engineer your own life.  Your free will and innate power shape your decisions and how you pigeonhole yourself.  The more you listen to your soul, the easier it is to decipher languages of your intuition. 

As you unburden yourself of uncomfortable emotional bagage, you learn what it feels to travel lighter and more carefree.  Shedding what is no longer necessary is a sign that you are embracing parts of your authentic self.  This is the fundamental journey shared by all creatures.  Remember that no force pushes you to do anything you don't want inside.

Opportunities exist to lift you out of your accustomed mode of life.  You shift your current comfort zone to experience a 'higher' level of existence, new ways of perceiving where you are.   Unconscious urges and inclinations are only selectively unknown to you.

As you realize you aren't confined to perceived limitations of the physical body, you realize sources of wisdom surround you.  To attune to your soul triggers a transformation of your personality and your life.  As you discern mental patterns that have kept you in denial, you sense Divine guidance.  You only ever suck energy or faith out of yourself.

What if your reality is a hallucination?

Some people wonder whether what they see may be a misinterpretation or an illusion. Since your view of reality is like a picture you paint with the senses, and every sensory experience is created in the mind, you may wonder if your life isn't itself a  hallucination.

Each moment, you unconsciously insert new beliefs into your perception. They are forms of energy. They transform and materialize as part of your circumstances. Most people don't sense the ongoing process, but your own mental exercise continues, even now.

On some level, you engage in constant self-hypnosis.  You tell yourself to believe and see certain things, and reinforce this with repetition.  How you feel reiterates what you think.  The question is, do you make the connection? Are you aware of your beliefs?

If you feel dissatisfied, uncomfortable or unhappy, it may be convenient to assume you must be hallucinating.  Yet, it would seem as though you are not.  The physiological signs indicate otherwise. You do not hallucinate just because you don't like an experience.  This reaction reflects denial or ignorance about what you implicitly asked for (and got). 

Consider that under induced hypnosis, like on stage as part of entertainment or in a therapist's office, you would attempt and perform physical feats that you would resist under other conditions.  You wouldn't hold back.  You transcend your own defenses. 

In such cases, hypnosis prompts you to suspend debilitating beliefs and fears.  When you don't let them control you, then doubt dissolves.  You choose to view life differently.  You concentrate fully on your own energy and potential.  How you perceive changes.

As for whether your reality is a hallucination, reflect on whether you are willing to suspend certain beliefs and adopt others.  If you feel disoriented, does that bother you? What if you would benefit from shaking up the frameworks of thought that ground you?

Intuitive elements influence faith in yourself.  If you no longer favor aspects of a previous system of belief, then you can hypnotize yourself differently.  Pay attention to your conscious thoughts. You are your own hypnotist.  Reverse the process where it suits. 

Reconstruct your conscience

Some people interpret a conscience.  You may describe this as an inner sense that prompts you to judge what is right and wrong in your own thoughts and behavior.  Its the part of you that helps identify the 'right action' at the right time or criticizes others.

What you may not realize is your conscience, as you sense it right now, is an untrustworthy guide.  As we grow up, we adopt beliefs of others as a means of working through our own sense of what makes us who we are.  Your self-worth grows from there.  That is to say you grow to mistrust your body and mind, based on what others think.

Our conscious mind is in the process of forming, evolving and changing. Throughout your life, you periodically abandon ideas that no longer fit with how you think and how your view yourself.  Underneath it all, you are uncovering your innate pattern of feelings.

To discover that you deprive yourself of discerning and realizing abilities is the first step the redirecting your thoughts.  You are already aware of reference points.  You sense how to remedy your situation and unconsciously know what to do. This doesn't require identifying what is positive or not about where you are.  Transcend the impulse to do so.

Before you start to self-question, train yourself to accept you need not analyze how you got here.  Your beliefs regulate your reality.  Your free will enables you to restructure your conscience based on discarding thoughts that don't serve you.  Choose to embrace the gift of everything.  Dissolve guilt and any other feelings that spark doubt of self-love.

Use your power to alter your life

What if someone brought your attention to the idea you only remember aspects of yourself that you consciously manifest? That is, you are selective.  You focus and limit the attention of your brain based on what you think you know. What if you miss the crux?

You might say, “Whoa there! Life isn’t really as I see it?” At the same time, somewhere, not so far away, in the back of your head, echoes a persistent, “Nope...”

The fact of the matter is, in all likelihood, you choose not to listen to this voice as much as you could.  Ego quashes it, to deny the truth, for reasons you don’t yet recognize.

Take your senses. From a young age, you train yourself to organize information based on what you’re taught is traditional sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. You make comparisons. You’re taught certain experiences are ‘taken in’ and described using certain senses.  That approach supposedly makes your views more easily understood. Yet, you limit yourself based on conditioned beliefs about the right thing to do and when.

As your body cringes in apparent confusion,  you may ask yourself why you assume other ‘right’ or ‘useful’ ways don’t exist.  Do you take a trusted person's word for it? Why do you choose to give another human being's word or experience your trust?

What if future experiences need not be interpreted by your senses as you have done before? Your power lies in your current experience.  Beneath your reflex reactions, your being reacts to events in ways that break your normal patterns.  Are you ready to listen?

What if someone tells you that you can ingest information through different mechanisms? This means you can see aromas, hear colour, taste light, feel sound, even if these aren’t your current ways of perceiving.  You can even interpret time and events differently.  What if your current physical experience is merely a choice among possible realities?

Consider that whenever you detect obstacles, you have assumed you will have barriers in your path.  You have assumed something is missing you desire.  The result of which perception of yourself you create and which circumstances you choose combine to highlight your source of power.  You force your mind to view your life as sequential moments.  Action is thought in motion.  Use your power to alter your life experience now.

"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations.  You are originally unlimited and perfect.  Later, you take on limitations and become the mind." - Ramana Maharshi