Self-Mastery – Diving Into The Eye Of The Storm (Part 2)

Creating and cultivating your inner awareness is an on-going process in life, and it allows you to feel stable, whole and content towards a specific situation or result.  It is the process of clearing your mind (“turning down the static”) and creating a peaceful, non-judgmental, still area within you, like the eye of the storm.  Then you start the questioning process on your thoughts, feelings, and reactions to a situation or result:

• “How am I feeling right now?”
• “What am I focusing on right now?”
• “What do I really want?”
• “What kind of thoughts and beliefs do I have that are responsible for this kind of result?"

Asking those questions will allow your inner awareness to notice those feelings and reactions, observe what caused them, and accept the fact that this is your reality right now.  It will stop you from rationalizing or creating excuses, and not waste your energy on decisions based on past, untrue beliefs or on an event that may not even happen.  Moreover, it will help you focus on the “now”, to function in the present moment … what is, is.  In the present moment, you become true to yourself, you begin to trust insights received from yourself, and you become aligned to the truth.  That’s powerful stuff.

Cultivating your inner awareness will allow you to know who you are, what you are capable of, what challenges you are up against and how to solve them.  You will come to understand that you create your own reality.  And you will boldly acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever happens to you.  There is no “blame” game or the “I’m the victim” game.

As you view your strengths and your limitations, and acknowledge them for what they are, you will help cultivate your inner awareness.  As you realize that feeling guilt, shame, embarrassment or resentment prevents your personal growth, it will only help to further cultivate your inner awareness.

When you are determined to change the way you look at things, you are cultivating your inner awareness.  You observe your thoughts and actions, and the results they create. You observe, for example, your own reactions to the way people treat you, and decide to change the attitudes and actions that elicited your negative reactions, rather than criticize the person who treated you disrespectfully.

You have the power to determine what to “call” the situation.  If you are calling the situation as “bad”, you are in essence rejecting the reality in front of you and brushing it off as a “bad” or negative experience.  Such an act will increase the suffering, prolong that negative experience, and needlessly drain your energy.  Channeling your energy on the “bad” experience only creates more of it.  However, if you find the “good” in that situation, your energy shifts to what you want, not on what you don’t want or don’t have or might/should have.  It gives you the ability to look at the present and see it as good.  You focus your energy not on the past or “what will”, but “what is”.  There is no waste of energy, just your laser focused energy on the present moment.  The positive reality that you create, will in turn, empower you.

Remember, the universe works by laws, not by chance or luck, and every situation that looks “bad” also has the “good” in equal proportion – but you have to look for it.  Create, cultivate and trust your inner awareness.

To receive inner guidance is to trust in yourself, and to be open to the incredible and infinite possibilities life has to offer, and to claim your birthright as an individual with full, total power and limitless potential.

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