You will learn to trust yourself, because you will begin to understand what you really are…
“There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.” – The Tao of Pooh
“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.” – The Tao of Pooh
“How can you get very far,
If you don’t know who you are?
How can you do what you ought,
If you don’t know what you’ve got?
And if you don’t know which to do
Of all the things in front of you,
Then what you’ll have when you are through,
Is just a mess without a clue –
Of all the best that can come true,
If you know What and Which and Who.”
– The Tao of Pooh
“The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.” – The Tao of Pooh
Each of these beautiful little pieces contains a phrase that leads you to YOU:
- “the first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it”
- “begin by being appreciative of who you are”
- “how can you get very far, if you don’t know who you are?”
- “the masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them”
There are many spiritual teachings that have at their core the belief that our number one job as a human being is to remember who we are. To quote from “Conversations with God:
“Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.” – Neale Donald Walsch
Why is this so difficult though, to just remember who we are? And even when we have profound experiences that remind us, why do we seem to forget?
As a biological system, your human architecture is beautifully designed for survival first and foremost! Like any other animal your brain makes a big deal about the information that says anything about your ability to survive.
And to this end, since you were born you’ve been learning from the world around you what you need to know in order to survive. You’ve been listening to the voices in your environment to learn you who you are, and they’ve been telling you:
- You are naughty
- You are disorganized
- You are disrespectful
- You are ugly
- You are disgusting
- Stop being stupid!
- Are you performing again?
- Who do you think you are?
- I’ll give you something to cry about!
… these old recordings from the past shaped how you see yourself, and they speak loudly within you still, reminding you of what you were told was true about you.
Remember who you really are…
Born a pure being of potential, the embodiment of love, proof of abundance manifested in human form!
Today’s meditation uses the work of Paul Selig who asks us to claim the following three statements in truth: “I know WHO I am – I know WHAT I am – I know HOW I serve”, and to trust that your SOUL knows, even if you sometimes forget.
You will learn to trust yourself. You will learn to trust that you always find your way back to the BEST version of you, because in fact you always have!
So for today just one very powerful mantra to keep on repeat:
- I trust that I will always find my way back to the best version of me. Because the truth is, in the past I always have.
The path back to self-trust is paved with introspection and self-compassion. Meditation practices can be powerful tools in this process. By quieting the external noise and turning inward, we can begin to hear the voice of our own wisdom, the voice that “reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.”
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Finding inner wisdom.