Where to Now?

Once transformation occurs, the world is suddenly different. So many things begin to make sense. Things that appeared to a jumble of unconnected circumstances, fall into place. The freedom that results from being free of someone or something, is an overwhelming sense of lightness--in the most physical sense. That's what transformation is all about.

Like the time I realized that I was just as biased and prejudiced as anyone on this planet, I was free to let go of my biases and prejudices. I realized how arrogant it was to play the game of superior/inferior. Because we tend to play both sides of the dicotomy, depending on the situation. If I can't get what I want, it's sooo easy to fall back on racist America. However, when I go back to my neighborhood where I grew up, I'm superior to the losers I grew up with. Having such a realization is both humbling and freeing, simulatneously! Remember, freeedom is synonymous with a lack of fear.

So, on the exit side of tranformation there is the humbling of the ego and a "nugget of wisdom," followed by the freedom to authentically be who you are. The necessity to hold desperately onto being right or righteous about my programmed beliefs about others who are different or see the world differently becomes incredibly ridiculous. So what about the nugget of wisdom? "That which I dislike in others is a mirror reflection of myself!"

This a powerful nugget. Particularly, if we decide to use it as a guideline for living our lives. The game of life where freedom and fearlessness are concerned is to acquire as many nuggets as possible. However, every nugget costs giving up something. The more impacting the nugget, the more important the belief structure that must be released. The process of acquiring nuggets is the following:

1) Everytime you encounter a conflict where your emotions are provoked, reflect inwardly to the place in your body where your feelings are aroused.

2) Ask that place in your body what you fear most losing in terms of your view of the matter, e.g., being wrong, not only about this situation, but a whole string of them as you relect retrospectively on your life; discovering what you believed as a truth, may only be "smoke and mirrors" to control your thinking, etc.

3) Put up or shut up time. You are now face-to-face with sometning you have escaped or avoided for some time now. But you can't run away from yourself. There you are in the mirror, thinking, "What do I do this time?" Truth or consequences.

4) Go for it! Jump for the trapeze. If you catch it, there is freedom and a life without fear. Not a life of apparent security and a threat lurking behind every bush, but one where you discover you control more of your destiny than you ever imagined.

There is a basic rule of life: The greater the need for security, the greater the fear!
Where this blog is concerned, it is the fear of realizing our beliefs, programmed as values, are in no way superior to anyone else's! They simply fit us best, not necessairly the world.

As the book title says, "Think on these things"

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