LIFE’S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK

So, have you managed to master life yet? No? What seems to be the problem? Haven’t you been following the manual, that ‘how to’ book you were handed at birth? What was that, you didn’t get one? Well join the club. If you’ve personally been putting together life’s little instruction book based on a hotchpotch of information you were given here and there throughout your time on Earth (thanks to various sources) you’re not alone.

As a handful of influential authors come to write upon our pages over time, there is one thing that remains vital to our evolution; we must consciously edit regarding many of these influences, for with the most powerful chapters shaping our character or identity in the most powerful of ways, it is really our editing skill which has the ability to keep our story as simple as possible. But what if we weren’t taught the skill of simplifying? What if we were taught to associate our self with every possible influence that comes our way (both positive and negative, both true and false)? Of course we can end up with volumes relating to a complex story or drama that only a psychologist has the ability to analyse and edit. By the way, in speaking of simplicity I am not downplaying any major trauma a person may have encountered, I am more so expressing the need to identify with that event or those events in the simplest and most honest of ways in order to get to the actual truth. So as to live an honest and truthful version of our self we must condense by giving up a lot of our false perceptions.

If there is a key factor I have discovered in regard to simplification it is this – at certain points in life, we must face the need for SACRIFICE of some nature. if we are to evolve we must constantly and carefully re-evaluate and re-identify ourselves. We must let go and adapt or readapt to environmental factors (and how we find our self associating with them). Personally, whilst I rode the emotional roller coaster of depression for many years, there were definitely times where I contemplated the idea of sacrifice yet the concept was altogether wrong. Even going so far as to land myself in hospital once as a result of my longing for self-sacrifice, I was missing the deeper message; whilst something was calling for me to sacrifice myself, what eventually took me out of depression was my sacrifice of ‘the self’ (aka my identity). With my actual identity comprised of all that I had identified with over the years, when I let go of the lot I disappeared and a new person came into being. To tell you the truth, I barely recognised myself although I did recognise the fact that I had been living a ‘reality’ that proved to be slowing destroying me. I had been living through an identity which, looking back, understandably took me step by gradual step into a deep and dark depression.

So, what about you? How has your brain been determining your identity in relation to your life events and everyday learning as a student of this Earth? What if I gave you the proposition of going to a different ‘school’ where they firstly teach you how to unlearn much of what you have been taught before teaching you the truth in regard to who you are. Imagine for a second how your life would begin to unfold once you found the truth. Imagine who you could be if ‘Life School’ offered subjects such as:

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE (Identity)

Creating positive and realistic mental programs involving mind, body and spirit which aid in maintaining an honest and basic sense of self (including pointing out the difference between opinion and belief vs. actual truth)

The ability to recognise and effectively process information in regard to mental programming through environmental influences (being aware of how and why you are forming relationships with people, objects, ideas, events, etcetera)

ORIENTATION (Creating and recognising positive direction)

Goal setting (as well as resetting/re-assessment)

Bearings or self in relation to challenge/change

The value of instinct/intuition (placing trust in your own internal compass and maintaining confidence in it)

Maintaining the ability to recognise positive external guidance/influence as well as negative guidance/influence

REGENERATION (Reflecting on development/re-development)

Creating and deleting mental programs (keeping the system relevant and up to date based on the need for change and personal growth)

Positive regular self-assessment

Relevance of personal reinvention/evolution and vision

ENERGY AWARENESS (Mind, body and spirit)

Basic understanding of functionality (chemistry and essence) and their connection or relationship with each other

Defining individual and combined purpose

If by some chance you noticed the first letter of each of these headings in bold you would come to understand that there is something fundamental missing from our little book on how to live; there is a CORE system which most likely has never been taught to us, outright.

Were you ever taught how to evolve consciously? Were you ever taught how to identify yourself honestly? If not, it’s time to go back to school. It’s time to begin tackling the editing process. And it is definitely time to find the truth as to who you really are.