Discover Your Inner Self

An interesting thing, the human mind… men and women throughout the ages have gone to great lengths and devoted their lives to a variety of discoveries without ever exploring their inner selves. While we surely must pay homage to those who have discovered continents, life-saving vaccines, outer space, etc., isn’t it interesting that discoveries outside ourselves seem so much more interesting and important to us than the exploration of our inner selves?

Many famous people throughout history have contributed much to our world as we know it today and yet so many of them never took the time to get to know themselves. There were, of course those who devoted their lives to discoveries outside themselves and managed to explore their inner selves as well. Those were the magnificent ones and we should seek out their written works and biographies and learn from them… and that brings to mind one of my favorite quotations, actually it’s an old Zen saying…

“Do not follow in the footsteps of the masters.
Seek what they sought.”

That’s great advice but only if you’re sure that what they sought is what you seek. Hopefully the thing you seek first and foremost is to discover your inner self.

Once you really know your inner self everything else you do will be easier. Too many people live and die without ever really having engaged in that exploration. They lived off the cuff, so to speak. By that I mean that they were as straws in the wind. When the winds of fortune or failure blew one way that’s the way they went. When the winds shifted to another direction, so did they. Never really discovering your inner self relegates you to the life of someone to whom things just happen, things over which you have no control.

So, what does this discovering one’s inner self really mean? How does one even begin to do it? Well, it starts with understanding why you do what you do, why you react to certain things the way you do. It’s important to understand why you’ve never realized your dream…if you ever even had a dream. You need to know why things often don’t seem to work out for you while they seem to work out so well for others.

The answer lies in what you think about and the way you think about it. We need to delve into how success or failure; happiness or misery; loving or loveless lives are a direct results of the thoughts you have about them. Yes, your thoughts do actually determine your day to day life and, in fact, your destiny.

Memorize the following words until they become so much a part of your life that you know them as well as you know your own name and you begin to live them daily.

Be aware of your thoughts; your thoughts become your words.
Be aware of your words; your words become your actions.
Be aware of your actions; your actions become your deeds.
Be aware of your deeds; your deeds become your habits.
Be aware of your habits; your habits become your character.

Those are not just words. They serve to illustrate the progression of thinking that creates the ability to have abundance in your life. Success is your birthright and you can have it all. The catch is that to have it all, you must DISCOVER YOUR INNER SELF and the fact that your inner self is unwittingly keeping abundance away from you.

If you’re thinking that this whole thing may be easier said than done, stop thinking that now. It’s as easy or as difficult as you think it is… so my question is why would you choose to think it’s difficult.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a Wizard of Inner Self who could just wave a magic wand over you and make you all that you have ever dreamed of being? The answer is a resounding NO! It would be rather like the down and out person who wins a couple million in the lottery. Because they did nothing to create the money they don’t have the respect for or the understanding of the significance of that kind of money and it is soon all gone.

Start where you are and gradually begin to think like a winner. As you do this, you will begin to attract to your life everything you’ve ever wanted.

Your life is a reflection of your inner thoughts.
If you want to change your life, you need only change your thinking about it.

Questions? e-mail me at:
KnowYourself@TheSecretAbundanceFiles.com
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