Now, there are hundreds (or maybe thousands) of techniques, ways, and methods for "fixing" your self...
- You take up religion, get philosophy, take seminars, tap yourself with EFT.
- You get your chakras balanced, try reflexology, acupuncture, get heated with lights and crystals.
- You meditate, chant, drink green tea, breath in fire and speak in tongues.
- You get centred, learn NLP, visualisations, study psychology, try psychedelics, get a psyche reading.
- You hang upside down, have colonics, get into nutrition and aerobics.
- You see your homeopath, chiropractor, naturopath...
- You try kinesiology, discover your Enneagram type, get your meridians balanced...
- Join a consciousness raising group, take tranquilizers, hormone shots, and cell salts...
- You learn astral projection, become a vegetarian, eat only cabbage, go organic...
Blah, blah blah...
I think you get the picture?
The fact is...
The very seeking of freedom causes notions of success and failure, which only bind us to our own self judgements.
Understand this...
There are NOT many paths to freedom... There's only ONE!
And It's NOT Out There My Friend
You're looking in the WRONG place.
It's closer than you think.
It's not your body...
your thoughts...
or your emotions!
Have you guessed yet?
Look to see what’s going on inside.
If you want to understand why you’ve done everything you have ever done, if you want to see what’s really going on...
Observe your mind and emotions—just experience your inner state.
If you objectively look, you'll see you're never completely at peace. You'll see you're not okay in there.
The constant drive to BE something, in an attempt to be OKAY.
You must seriously look at this process of trying to be okay. Because, you’ve been at it your entire life—you’ve just tried different things at different times.
While it’s true that sometimes you manage to make it better for short periods of time, you know you’ve never even come close to reaching a state of permanent peace and freedom.
Psssst, Over Here...
Watch very closely how you react to the things your mind has preferences about. And you'll see if your mind gets what it wants, you feel joy; if it doesn’t get what it wants, you feel disturbance.
Likewise, when your mind experiences what it doesn’t want, you feel disturbance, and when it avoids what it doesn’t want, you feel relief.
You'll never be okay playing this game because the world will never match the conceptual model your mind has made up. Eventually, you will come to see that struggling to be okay doesn't work.
At some point, you'll try to find a different way to be okay IN THERE.
Well, here's the BIG secret...
Become Detached!
Discover the glory of watching your body, emotions, actions, and feelings from afar.
There are so many books explaining this idea, seeming to add far too many ingredients (I mean, have you tried reading a 400 page book and retaining the information in it?)
Letting go, pre-supposes you're holding on to something...
So, that don't work to good, now does it?
It's much easier to sit back and realize YOU ain't your body.
Yes, it's yours...
but it isn't who you are.
And to prove a point (if you haven't pressed the "I Believe" button)
Go and look in a mirror...
do you recognize yourself?
what if you were horrifically disfigured...
Would you still know it's YOU by looking in the mirror?
I mean...
Other people wouldn't recognize you. But you'll always be YOU until the day your body gives up the ghost.
Same with your emotions, and feelings...
They're part of your past experience, but they're NOT YOU.
All you've got to do is dis-believe your "false" assumptions and realize who you really are.
It's all there, and you don't have to look anywhere else.
But, if you do...
Good luck, and tell me how you got on : )