Awakening Consciousness: Can You Change Yourself?
Have you ever wondered if it were possible to ‘transcend’ the desires of the flesh (be that wealth, lust, prestige or success in any other form) ?
When I first began my journey towards Conscious Awareness, I thought that is what I was required to do. As the years progressed, I became quite despondent when I continually ‘failed’ to move away from my feelings of desire for things and I almost gave up.
Then one day I had an amazing realisation.
I had changed despite still being very much connected to my desires, my humanness, my love of life and the things around me. I was so happy to realise that I didn’t have to forgo all those things. I was even more delighted to realise that some of my responses and desires around those things had shifted. Not disappeared but shifted.
Of course you can change “yourself” but that doesn’t mean that you forgo those forces in your life that make you alive. You merely work to shift your perceptions of what is important, necessary and real. This will be unique to each of us.
When we go on that quest to “find” ourselves, if we are successful, we merely discover that we are already complete, whole, perfect.
Love.
We then place a different value on money, ego, lust, power etc. we can still play with them, they just don’t play with us in the same way. Your perceptions have changed, the power belongs to you now, not to the money, the car, the trappings of success.
You have uncovered you true essence and never again need you worry about loss or acquisition because you know deep in your heart that this is part of your journey. If you are ready to begin or if you have already walked many miles down this path but are looking for something different or new click here to see my 5 Steps To Discover Your Life Purpose e-course. No charge to you.
17, June 2009 at 2:30 pm
This is one of the best piece I have read a long time of what finding yourself is all about. You come out and say it straight out – in opposition to what many teachers say. We are of flesh and blood, all that goes with flesh and blood, our desires, strivings are part of who we are. To deny it is futile.
Through awareness we can and should become aware of their rightful place in our lives.
I will keep reading your blog. It’s an inspiration to me. True teachings.
17, June 2009 at 10:35 pm
I am honoured by your comments. Thank you.