See Through These Six False Beliefs And Be Free By MIKE BUNDRANT #1: False Belief: Unwanted moments are to be avoided at all costs. False Responsibility: You feel as if you must remain in control of everyone and everything at all times. True Responsibility: Welcome everything that happens to you as an opportunity to see through and transcend the unconscious burden of being someone laden with any false beliefs. #2: False Belief: You are only as valuable, or worthless, as other people agree that you are. False Responsibility: You’re convinced that you must do whatever it takes to win the approval of everyone you meet. True Responsibility: Be real…Learn what it means to be in possession of yourself, starting with reclaiming your life. #3: False Belief: You are responsible for the happiness or unhappiness that others feel. False Responsibility: You must always compromise yourself to ensure the contentment of everyone else. True Responsibility: Stay out of the lives of all those who expect you to do for them what they won’t do for themselves. #4: False Belief: You must learn to “tolerate” friends and family who have agreed to live with and justify negative states. False Responsibility: You must constantly smooth over rocky situations, ensuring that no one rocks anyone’s boat enough to tip it over. True Responsibility: See all negative states as the unconscious, dark emotions that they are, and refuse to justify them in yourself, or anyone else. #5: False Belief: You can change what happened yesterday by revisiting and reliving it today. False Responsibility: Unless you worry about and suffer over your past, your tomorrows are not going to turn out right. True Responsibility: You can be a new person right now. Let go of anything that wants to revisit and relive the past. #6: False Belief: Feeling deeply stressed proves you really care about whatever you’re suffering over. False Responsibility: It’s up to you to shoulder the weight of those painful thoughts and feelings that want to drag you down. True Responsibility: See that agreeing to suffer from your own mental and emotional states makes as much sense as blaming the French fry that just burned your mouth Let me encourage you to sit down and make your own list of false beliefs, and the legion of false responsibilities that come with them. Remember that your one true responsibility in life – the one action that will always see to your success in life – is to always be as awake and receptive to the present moment as you can be. If we refuse to see what life is trying to show us about ourselves, then we can’t learn. If we don’t learn the truth of ourselves, then true self-knowledge becomes impossible. Without higher self-knowledge, there is no way to rise above ourselves…to reach that innermost path that alone leads to the fulfillment of our highest possibilities. Guy Finley is the bestselling author of The Secret of Letting Go, The Courage to Be Free, and 40 other works that have sold over a million copies in 20 languages worldwide. He is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit center for self-study located in southern Oregon where he gives talks four times each week. For more information and to receive a free starter kit and free weekly inspirational messages by email, visit guyfinley.org.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 05:19:08 +0000