Authentically You…

Be your authentic self

Be yourself authentically

Here’s what you need to know

You have an Authentic Self (more accurately) YOU ARE an Authentic Self

You have other selves – created through personality (ego) as a function to operate with other created selves.  Imagine each of of had a puppet or set of puppets that we used to interact with other puppets.

Although useful, all (and I mean ALL) “other selves are not you”

In order to be your authentic self, you must lay down all other selves that you’ve created around you. Your authentic self is the self that experiences the peace, joy and fulfillment of life’s journey. Each moment that your life does not currently express peace, joy and fulfillment, then you are not your authentic self. Many of us move from our authentic selves to our other selves many times throughout the course of a year, a month or even the scope of your work day.

It is not that we have intentionally fashioned ourselves to be inauthentic its just that we forget that the selves we create are ultimately not real and it is through those made up selves that we experience the stress, worry, resentment, and insecurities of our lives.

Solution

We often think that to solve a problem there is something we have to do. To the ego (mind/personality) it implies a forward action, an acting upon something outside of ourselves. In truth, it is less of an acting outward than it is a releasing inward. The act of being your authentic self is actually the intentional release of all other selves. You don’t actually DO ANYTHING.

Begs the question…How do you release the “other selves”? this answer arrives naturally through understanding what holds other selves to us…ATTENTION. Attention is the single greatest power of the human mind. It is all we ever give anything to make it real. Consider, any event or item that does not have our attention, does not exist. (this is what Ad executives have used as the basis to spend tens of millions of dollars to get your attention)

I feel or experience stress or anger. I tell myself that this is not me but a function of my ego (a created self) and do nothing. My awareness of it weakens its hold on me and my intentional release of it through turning my attention elsewhere dissolves it altogether.

Do

1. So, be your authentic self.
2. When an “other self” arises through worry, anger, or stress, starve it by turning your attention elsewhere.
3. Watch and experience peace return to you.

M14SOK – opnuriis