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Chapter 3: A Real Look At Achieving Truth
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Distancing yourself from reality is never a wise long-run decision. It stems from a deficiency of acceptance of your own anticipations and a refusal to handle them openly and truthfully. When you look behind the real issues, you'll invariably find a deeper untruth you've been ferociously denying.
Face It
Your refusal to handle that lie perpetuates an ongoing downwardly spiral. Seeming short-term Advantages replace real advancement, drawing you ever deeper into a lifetime of repression and self-denial. The more you give in to the lure of inferior gains, the phonier you become as a human. For instance, say you work in a career that you intuitively feel is incorrect for you; you understand it's a dead end.
Once you look ahead, you see nothing. You simply can't bring yourself to admit the reality of your situation, so rather you live in self-denial, pretending that everything will in some way turn out all right. Rather than facing the reality, you search for additional ways to fill the void, and eventually you're seduced by the replacement of inferior gain.
Rather than your true intent, you follow money, acknowledgment, or comfort. Rather than true growth, you settle for going up the corporate ladder. Rather than abiding friendship and human familiarity, you settle for casual contacts, none of whom recognize, accept, and love the true you. Rather than worthwhile challenges, you finalize for the semblance of security.
The quest of inferior gain leads to haunting dissatisfaction, vacancy, and sadness. It's a temporary drug that may never satisfy you. If you discover yourself caught up in this habit-forming cycle, take the time for some deep self-examination. Even if you aren't prepared to deal with the long-run effects yet, at least accept the reality. Don't blow your life defending a string of fictitious achievements.
It's absolutely normal to discover plenty of untruth and denial in your life history, and you might worry that realigning yourself with reality will be an overpowering job. Don't be disheartened. Each step you take in the direction of reality will make it easier to go along the path of greater honesty, self-awareness, and acceptance. You don't need to mend every issue overnight.
Here are a few easy, practical exercises you are able to utilize to help realign yourself with reality.
Among the best ways to bring more reality into your life is to take a quick self-assessment. Assign a numeric rating to every area of your life utilizing an easy 1-10 scale. A 1 implies you're decidedly not getting what you wish in this area of your life; a 10 implies you're utterly Feeling what you want. Take a moment to do this now. Here are the fields to rate:
Habits & every day routine
Job & work
Revenue & finances
Wellness & fitness
Mental growth & training
Social life & relationships
House & loved ones
Emotions
Persona & integrity
Life intent & contribution
Spiritual growth
Your answers ought to supply a nice snapshot of how you're doing. Commonly you'll discover that a few areas lag behind the others, occasionally much behind. Interestingly, it's in our frailest spots that we most frequently succumb to untruth and denial, as those are the hardest regions to face. But those fields can't improve till you face and accept reality.
Now I wish you to view those same numbers from a different position. Take each rating that isn't a 9 or 10, cross it off, and substitute it with a 1. So now every of them must be a 1, 9, or 10. You see, if you can't rank a given field of your life a 9 or 10, then apparently you don't have what you truly wish in that area.
This may be particularly hard to admit when you believe you have a 7. A 7 looks pretty great at first sight, but the true 9s and 10s are far beyond 7s. The 10s are so far out there that you likely can't even view them from the position of a 7.
A 7 is what you acquire once you let too much falsehood and denial sneak into your life. It's a phony rating to start with, a 1 in camouflage. Either you've what you wish, or you don't. A 6, 7, or 8 is the answer you provide once you know you don't have what you wish, but you aren't prepared to confront it yet.
I understand this sounds unreasonably brutal, but based on my own experience as well as what I've noted in others, individuals commonly rate some part of their lives a 7 (or thereabout) when they've split themselves from reality. A 7 is a task instead of a career. A 7 is an easy living arrangement rather than a deeply fulfilling relationship.
Once you rate some component of your life a 7, it means you're on the improper path but you don't wish to accept it. You don't wish to admit that you're approaching a stalemate, so you base your rating on your position alternatively. "Look how far I've come down the Improper path," you state. You allot yourself a 7 based on your position along the path, even though the path itself is truly a 1. Your position doesn't matter.
Your evaluation must come from the path. You may be beginning from scratch in a fresh career, a fresh relationship, or a fresh spiritual journey and still rate that component of your life a 9 or 10 if you're on the correct track.
Now consider every area of your life again, and ask yourself, what do I truly require?
What is my ambition, my great vision? What is the deep want I've been longing for, the one I hesitate to accept as I don't think I may get it? What path do I most wish to experience?
Accept that you wish what you wish, and quit living in denial of your truthful desires.
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