Working on Yourself

The self is the illusion constructed by culture, governments, the media and ultimately your family and friends. It is your social identity which is used by people to make snap judgements about yourself and your personality. The self is an illusion determined by others opinions. To go further, how others perceive you is how they perceive themselves. We might deduce from this that the socially constructed version of your self is nothing more than a subjective interpretation. Therefore, to truly understand and to know your “true self” requires attention to the observation of your thoughts, words and behaviours. This process of self-understanding is a lifetime journey and requires daily introspection and analysis. Once you begin to become consciously aware of yourself in your day-to-day routine you will start to notice things about yourself that you would have not otherwise noticed. This includes how you interact with others, when you get depressed/anxious thoughts or realizing you walk around unconsciously with a negative state of mind. Although a painful process, the rewards far outweigh any struggle you have to go through in order to learn the lessons. This is the school of life, continual and persistent effort towards evolving one’s mental universe. This opens the door principally for eliminating fear, taking new opportunities, having self-belief in your goals and an inescapable state of mind where you feel the drive to lift others around you and to improve them. Working on yourself requires sensitivity to your imperfectness and loving yourself for who you are. It also provides a platform for change in your life and the happiness you give and take. We all have the opportunity to improve ourselves daily. Do not fight the universe, move with the flow of spontaneity and happiness. The only thing you require is intention, this is a direct vision of your dream, where you’re heading. This will only work if your dream is so unimaginable people simply laugh at you when you tell them. We all have the capacity for greatness beyond our wildest dreams. The only way to achieve this is to work on becoming a better ‘you’, from your perspective not anyone else’s.

Psychological Armour

The world and people are hurting you maybe more than you consciously take note of. People will tell you stories about yourself that are irrelevant to you, or they will tell stories behind your back influencing how others respond to you. The bottom line is we are each bound by our internal dialogue/dictionary. If people speak to your lower nature, it naturally has an affect. Conversely, if people speak to your higher nature (i.e. positive traits about yourself) it charges you positively and as a result you have more productive energy during the day. But what we often forget, is individuals will bring you down because of their own internal battles with the story they are trying to tell themselves. Importantly, this has nothing to do with you as a person. From the day you were conceived to the day you hit the grave, your whole life will be narrated by that voice inside your head telling you how to act, react, behave and express yourself. What we must understand is this internal narration literally writes your life out for you like a book. 

As vibrational beings we experience our realities based on our state of mind, this can be positive or negative dependent on your thoughts and emotions. What is crucial is we not only protect our internal dialogues, but that we nourish them, flower them and check their health on a regular basis. We have to understand it is our inner voice alone that counts, this is where self-love and self-respect come into play. You have to have your best interests at heart first before any other person’s opinion of you. Because many individuals who are insecure will emotionally manipulate you if you do not work on your psychological resiliency. Ways to achieve ‘psychological armour’ include positive self-affirmations (writing down on paper positive things to yourself daily), meditation practices for example focusing on your breathing and physical exercise (training one’s mind to ignore pain or the “give up” voice) and eating higher vibrational foods (organic & vegan). Each and every one of us have an obligation to ourselves to tender our psychological gardens and to grow our vocabulary’s into the vibrations of self-love, human compassion and integrity. Achieve these goals and you will find you will become mentally resilient too. Life is full of negative vibrational energy and thus it is vital we use every opportunity we have in this lifetime to train our psychological state of mind. Shielding negative vibrations ultimately provides a stable platform, for us to work on our ambitions and dreams. You already knew all of this, the purpose of this short article is to simply serve as a reminder that you are the most important person in your life.