CHANGE, FOR OUR OWN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (Part 1)

It occurred to me today, when I reset our computer's Internet Explorer settings to "default" (because it was running in a slow sluggish way), that maybe we can do this to ourselves to help us overcome our own 'sluggishness' of thought processing and actioning of our 'original' thoughts, ideas and inspirations.

Wouldn’t it be tremendous if we could do such a thing!!
Wipe out all the distressing stuff and start afresh!
What would you give to be able to press a button and have that happen to you? What occurrences would you want to wipe out of your earlier life? Have you got an upsetting 'issue', maybe about a person or an incident in your life, that's forever running in the background and ruining your chances of feeling contented? Is there something getting in the way, a judgement from someone, or a feeling that you're just not as good as you could be? Do you feel somewhat 'stifled'? Where did the feeling start?

Our greatest threat to living our own individual 'inspired' life is the conditioning and indoctrination generated by others throughout our life. When we are born we are on our most clear and coherent setting, bringing into life our original and most intelligent way of processing what we see and hear, unpolluted by the requirements of those around us. Those around us mostly believe the opposite - that we have to be 'taught' how to 'be' and how to 'do' - and, how to 'think'. Yes, they are there to care for our basic needs at that point in our life but it goes too far; they begin the process of conditioning us, unwittingly, for they too were conditioned in a similar way and all believed this to be the right way to go, they believe their way is correct so they perpetuate it in the new generation. It can reach a stage where the only voice in our head is made up of a conglomeration of the words, suggestions, demands and ideas of all those other people, so we can end up living a life that others have pre-made for us.
Our default settings have been compromised from the word go, our conditioning so organised that we seemingly have no way of getting back to that early 'clear thinking' position.

But our own inspiration is what we are here to put out into life. Mostly we don't hear it any more. Our "natural" and "inspirational" (springing from our Intelligent Source) thinking process has been attacked by 'Add-Ons' that slow us down, covering up the way we would naturally and individually process our thoughts, as they occurred to us.

Our receptor (our mind) – similar to Internet Explorer trying to receive clear information and detail from the internet source - is slowed to a crawl until an occasional short spark-of-a-gap in the ‘Add-On’ computer processes allows just a small space for proper connection from its source – sometimes even blanked off permanently by all the chatter of conflicting information with no clear way forward for this machine to display its true characteristics.
Same with our mind – blanked off from our own clear internal voice, leading to us to being confused and muddled about which way is the most natural for us to proceed.

If only we could do the opposite of that process - blank out most of what has been dumped on us - we may be able once again to receive pure thought from our own Source in an inspirational way - because our source is ‘what we are’ as individuals and our source thoughts are ultimately, when given a chance, for our own guidance that will ultimately lead to harmony for us and for those we interact with - for the benefit of all.
This is not for selfish reasons - but ultimately the purpose for all of this is peace (of mind) within each of us, and for peace and harmony (of the whole world mind, if you like) - all so that we might live for the benefit of all - the opposite of selfishness.

So how do we do it?

How do we return ourselves to that “default setting”?

Well, we certainly don’t have a switch on the front of our head to enable it!

The reality is that, as a first step, we have to become aware of, and accept, that this process of conditioning and indoctrination exists before we can move forward.
If we don’t, or won’t, believe that this is the case then we won’t move forward towards (or back to!) this destination. . (Then, we carry on living in ‘the dream of our conditioning’ and we are stuck with it, at least until we “change our mind” at some future point in time.)

If we do accept this as an idea, and then come to ‘know’ it to be so, we have taken a big leap – a Realisation that can form the spark, or catalyst, towards the change that we seek, the path back to our self.

In a way, it is as though we have awakened from the dream and are now seeing our true potential - what we have been missing out on for most of our life. ‘Our potential’ could also be described as “our purposeful way of being in our life on earth” - so important, and so magical once we allow it to materialise in our mind and in reality of the here and now.

That initial Big Leap is major - but it’s just the beginning…………and the next leap comes by activating a combination of a lot of small steps at first which will produce the next Big Leap - those small steps are made up of………..effort on our part, to look into our own conditioning.

All this adds to the overall theme of my blog - Change - changing our way of thinking.

And, quite contrary to what you might now be thinking, these changes can be Delightful, Enlightening and Fun, if we allow it to be that way! It can be a new aspect of your life that allows you to smile, inwardly as well as outwardly, as you make your own discoveries about WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Self Development doesn’t have to be heavy going and hard work, it can be light and enjoyable!

In Summary, what is needed is……….ACCEPTANCE and EFFORT

All for now……….look out for Part 2 in my next posting.

Copyright Eric Morris 2010