Showing posts with label Self Awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self Awareness. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Day 105 Don’t Tell Me What to Do

As I work on my Boss Woes Mind Constructs with the Desteni I Process – I have been re-seeing that I do
"CONSUMED By The Idea of Yourself"
already knew to do it. Thus my self importance as pride felt like it was being attacked. As I look back on my life I see that my pride was very important to me. It is really another layer of wanting to be liked. I also would not want people to do something for me that I could do – I wanted to show them that I could do it. Thus building up myself as pride.
Interesting I am a double Leo – The pride of the lion! Lol – It was important to me that others saw me as worthy. This is really cool to see how I was so attached to my pride. Where in it would cause many times a lot of “emotional” unnecessary suffering for me, though out my life, I did not see it as suffering so to speak – I just saw it as “that is the way it is.”

I have a memory of when I was around 13yrs old. I was outside in my back yard putting up a tent. The neighbor boy came over and wanted to help me. I said “No – I can do!” And I would not let him help. My mother was watching this through the window. After the neighbor boy left she called me into the house and said “Why didn’t you let him help? He was just wanting to hang out with you and play.” I was in a bit of a shock when she said that. What was going on in my mind was that I like him and I wanted him to like me so I wanted to show him how cool I was because I could put up the tent! I remember doing this to him many times. Like wanted to better than him, so he would think I was cool and like me. The thing is I was pushing him away! Lol! I would be so wrapped up in proving myself that I did not take into consideration the other person at all. Interesting enough, somehow I did get a lot of friends. But I see now, it was because I was always doing things for them, so they would think I was cool. I wanted the attention and to build up self esteem as pride.

So the suffering so to speak would be for example how I reacted to my boss when she told me what to do, which is in the previous post. I became angry with backchat thoughts like she does not see me as worthy, doesn’t she see how good I am, I became judgmental and resentful towards her, I blamed her for not being different towards me. Things are better now that I have seen this and understand that suffering only comes because we believe in our self importance to where we can see nothing else. I can now see her as she is just doing her job, just making sure things get done, where I do not take how she is or what she does personally. I just say okay. And that is that. Its over, I do not go home anymore with resentment. This is also affecting my other relationship – where I would take things said or done personally if they do not agree with me or see it my way. They have there own way to see things, where I do not have to take offence about it anymore. Drop the pride and be free!  Next post I will share some self forgiveness on this point.

Related Posts Boss Woes Continued - Boss Woes

I have been doing the Art of Self Investigation for 6 years now. I learned this Art though what Desteni calls Writing to Freedom using Self forgiveness and Self Honesty. There is a Free Course offered called Desteni I Process Lite - Beginning Steps to Self Discovery
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Friday, January 3, 2014

Day 103 Boss Woes Continued

Cover of "Don Juan: the Sorcerer (audio C...
Cover of Don Juan: the Sorcerer (audio CD)

Confronting The Petty Tyrant

Continuing from: Boss Woes "Next post I will share what I found out about myself and how I was able to get past these feelings and emotions - It has to do with: Judging Others is Protecting Self Importance.

As I was engaging in self frustration over how my boss was treating me I remembered the word "petty tyrant." This a tern Don Juan used from the Carlos Castaneda books. I  found two articles that I read - one was Confronting the Petty Tyrant, I think it is defiantly worth a read as it helped me see what was going on in regards to me reactions. And the other article called The Petty Tyrant



Here is what I noticed after reading some posts on petty tyrants which is what DonJuan called mean people (my words)


After I read those articles I changed my "perception" of how I saw her and me. The most prominent point Don Juan said that struck me was - A petty tyrant can only influence us because we have "Self Importance"

How to deal with your boss

Thing are better because I changed ( I dropped my self importance)


I did some research on petty tyrant – and found and then realizes that the reason one would have a reaction with them is because of the idea of Self Importance – meaning I would believe that my “pride was attacked” – thus I now do not accepted and allow this anymore within me. So I applied this going to work which is explained below

Other things I noticed

Seems she (boss) has been nicer to me lately but what I have seen within me is that she is a mirror to my moods. Thus if I was having a bad day, frustration with myself because I believe that I am not doing enough to get my website business going and struggling with wanting to do things that I think I should – then I go to work with that and thus I am already in a defensive mood – thus I take everything she does personally. These last two weeks I have been aware of my emotional tone when I go to work.

 I try to be aware of my backchat to want to blame her for not being how I think she should be and if I see her in a mood, instead to go into fear and judgment towards her, I am practicing being stable and if she does something that would of upset me in the past – I now let it go and realize it is not my job to change her and I look for was to be supportive for what she may be going through.

 I am also now doing this with my roommate – instead of become offended because I believed she was not treating me how I wanted her to or thought she should – which is what she was thinking about me – it is like I am swallowing my pride or I could say I am stopping the need to be right within my mind –and then I am able to see what needs to be done in the moment.

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Friday, October 19, 2012

Day45: Humans Fear Each Other


Man Know Thyself
Man Know Thyself (Photo credit: jrmyst)
I have realized though my participation with Desteni is, that to become Self Realized one much first Know Thy Self. And this is not some self that you think you will be once you become enlightened somehow, or that will be revealed to you someday in heaven or from a Guru, Master or spiritual teacher. I am seeing that the self we need to know is the one we are now – here – today and all our days that we DON’T want to look at. Because these parts of ourself that we don’t want to look at, that we suppress and deny are the very parts of us that are running our lives. They need to be faced and forgiven so we will stop abuse within our world. As our world this planet is one of abuse. You my say may world is okay, there is not abuse around me… But there is abuse happening all around us, that we do not want to acknowledge because we fear it. We think if we acknowledge it – it will make it real for us. Thus we don’t want to care. But even in your own life there is abuse, jealousy, back stabbing, gossiping, greed in one form or another, wanting control over others in your family, friends, co-workers, spitefulness, and envy to name a few. And not to mention the inequality of Capitalism (that causes the greed) that we all participate in.

What I have come to really see is that Humans fear each other and don’t trust each other
Now, why is that? I mean think about it, many of use don’t trust our partner completely, we don’t really trust our neighbors, maybe some, but we lock our doors and hide our stuff. We fear each other. We want a job and fear another human might get it. We fear getting fired or losing our job from a human. We now fear the food we eat, the schools we go to, losing our homes that we have worked so hard to keep. And who is responsible for all this fear that we have accepted and allowed? Humans… 
 
Mankind lives in a state of constant fear of losing something. We might have a good day, or what we call a good day, because we have numbed ourself in one way or another to forget about our fear for a moment. I mean we even fear how we look – what we are wearing…
Thus Man Know Thyself – But we Deny, refuse to admit or acknowledge our true nature which is fear, and fear causes abuse.

I have been working with the Desteni principle for 4 years now, and its main purpose is for us to see our true nature and do something about it before we destroy ourselves as a species. Within this we are working a process, a journey to uncover and take a look at our true nature. What we accept and allow in our world/planet Earth. I call it “To Become Self Realized You Must Reverse Engineer Yourself.”

What this means is to take each thought, feeling and emotion and go into reverse, go backwards into your past and find as see how and why you created these thoughts, believes in yourself, others and the world. When we see and understand how our thoughts and believes have created a world of inequality and suffering though reverse engineering. That is what people do when they have something and they want to see how it was made – they take it apart all they way to the beginning, thus they now know how it was made.
Thus this is what Man Know Thyself really means. We take our thoughts to the origin and discover how it was made… Then we will know how to change

Check out Desteni I Process for the Journey to Self Awareness and also Equal Money.org - start to support a system where all of Life can benefit.
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