Are You Aware of Yourself?

What do I mean by this? Well lets think about this for a minute. Are you aware of yourself? Of your feelings, your emotions, where they come from, why you feel them, etc. We each have expectations of not only ourselves, but of other people, spouses, children, co-workers, employer, etc. When circumstances and people do not meet these expectations, feelings and emotions come out in response. Are you aware of yourself? I'm talking about the person who is behind the feelings and emotions, the person that has control over these.

We can separate ourselves from these feelings and look at the objectively focusing on where they are coming from. By doing this you can create "new" expectations that will result in different feelings and emotions. We have the control we just don't "think" or believe that we do. We just say "well that's the way I am". That's just an excuse to cop out. Our TRUE selves have control over our feelings, emotions, even our will to do what we want. Only because our feelings and emotions are instantaneous, do we mistakingly believe that we must "cool" down or "take our mind off of it".

This type of thinking prevents you of becoming "aware" of your true self. Just look at our world. We become programmed by our newspapers and our media by tricking us to believe that what they are "framing" in the editing room, is reality. We create our reality. The biggest programming piece of machinery known to man is the TV in your living room, dining room, or any room you have one. People watch it day and night and belive everyting they see. Why is this? The eyes and ears are what we use to decode the world and our environment.

I was watching a video by David Icke, a world renound speaker, talking about this very subject. he went on to say that how we all believe without question that tables, walls, and other things in our everyday life is actually solid. Well even I starting to think more and more about this, and then the next statement made it all click. We were taught in school that everything is made of mass and mass is composed of atoms. Well atoms are not solid. Its the mere "decoding" of the vibrational sounds that we hear from these objects when we hit them that makes them sound solid. Why? Its our minds that do that.

So I ask again, are you aware of yourself now? We are the writers of our destiny, we are the co-creators our circumstances, we have the control to change our attitudes. When we really think about it, God created us in his image. God "thought" of the world and it was created, therefore we have the same ability ourselves. This is confirmed in many places in the bible but one statement by David says it all. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." What is David saying? He is saying that whatever thoughts you hold about yourself, whatever you desire, think about, dwell about, will come out in your attitude and your behavior and then indirectly shape your future circumstances.

What do you think about all day long? What thoughts, I mean deep thoughts, do you hold about yourself? Our reality is effected by our perceptions of reality. Our perceptions are effected by our internal expectations, values, and thoughts, that drive how we react to people and our environment. See where I'm going with this? It all starts and ends with us. I'm talking about the REAL us; the us that is separate from the feelings, the us that is separated from the will, the us that is separated from the emotions, the us that is sometimes unaware of the influence of itself over our results. We create short cuts that bypass critical thinking and arrive us at decisions we don't even second guess.

I challenge you right now to find yourself, to become aware of your TRUE self. There you will the find the answer to your problems you seek. There you'll find happiness, understanding, and personal power.

Copyright © 2008 by Dustin Swigart