Remind and Remember

All In Your MindThrough the experience of living our life, we pick up many misconceptions about what life is and what it means to have a life experience. In this series of articles I will share with you what I believe and what I know beyond belief about what life is and isn’t and what the purpose of having a life experience really is.

Many years ago I realized that to solve any problems or challenges, we need to get to the root cause of them. Through introspection, research and study, I began inquiring into the challenges of my life and discovered that my own mind was the root cause of all my challenges.

It’s easy to look at your life and lay blame for your current circumstances outside or upon another, but the truth is everyone’s problems and challenges are self-created by the thoughts we habitually think and are sustained by the beliefs we hold. Understanding this enables us to move beyond victimhood and into a life experience that’s consciously chosen by us.

By considering and implementing the ideas that I’ll outline, which may be new to you, you’ll be fully self-empowered to make new decisions concerning the direction of your life. You’ll begin to realize that: life isn’t hard, unless through the choices you make you make it so; life’s supposed to be fun and you’re supposed to reside in a state of well-being and happiness .

Nothing NewTo be clear, nothing I’ll be writing is actually new to any of us. Deep down each of us already knows and understands all I’ll be saying, but some people may want or need to be reminded in order to re-connect or re-member with their spiritual or higher self.

Our higher self is that part of us which knows the best way for us to achieve anything in our life and how to get there in the fastest time. The information in this series will be concerning both our personality and our higher self.

Nature ChoiceFurthermore, it’s understood that not everyone needs to hear anything I may say. For example: consider the analogy of a simple sheep herder in the remote hills and valleys of the northern Himalayas or some such place. The sheep herder awakens every morning and loves the nature all around him.

The snow capped mountains, trees, plants, grass lands and animals all inspire a feeling of love and oneness with nature within him. He loves his life and enjoys every moment of being alive. From his perspective nothing more is needed, there’s nothing to add , all is good.

Conversely, others, who are living in larger communities and interacting with many people through family , work, jobs and businesses in their daily life, may be experiencing stressful situations. Due to the perceived stress many people are not feeling so good about their life, have health challenges or are lacking love and indeed, may have forgotten their true connection to nature.

The Big StuffIf you’re anything like me, you are passionate about being reminded of the important things in life, and you want to understand who you really are and what life really is. That’s the primary intention of communicating this knowledge and these ideas to you throughout this Remind and Remember series.

A big part of knowing who we really are is in the realization that we create our own reality. Actually, it’s more accurate to say that we choose which part of creation we now want to experience, but I’ll elaborate on that in a later article.

And why is it important to know that you create your own reality? It’s important because once you remember this point; you realize that you wouldn’t have created an experiential reality unless there was something in it for you. In other words, you wouldn’t create it unless it contained something that you wanted to learn or remind yourself of.

And in turn, this means that any reality you’ve created and are currently experiencing is OK, there’s nothing wrong, all is how it’s meant to be. All is how you wanted it to be in order for you to learn from it.

This realization also means that if you’re currently unhappy with your life, you and you alone have full power within you to change your current experience into something that you say you now prefer, by changing your mind.

Beliefs As Filters
Observe your reaction from reading what’s been said so far, how does it feel to you? Does it feel good and sound about right? Or is there a knot in your stomach and thoughts like “who does he think he is,” or “what planet is he from,” etcetera? Either way, whatever you’re feeling it’s tied to your beliefs, beliefs you may have picked up from your family and social conditioning and through your life experience.

It’s perfectly normal to have and hold beliefs, we all have them. Beliefs make things and beliefs make the world as it is today. But what is a belief and are your current beliefs serving you or hindering you? A belief starts as a thought about how you’ve defined something. Continually thinking about and defining something eventually becomes your belief about it, but are your current beliefs actually helpful to you?

Let’s say that when you were a child, you often heard a parent complaining that money is hard to come by or that rich people are all crooks or something similar. Due to your innocent nature as a child, you may have picked up these beliefs and continue to hold on to them to this day, without ever having really examined them.

Now, as an adult, imagine that a rich person offered to work with you in some way on a project that they said will be mutually beneficial, but due to your belief about rich people you didn’t act and declined to work with this person. Your belief served as a filter that influenced your choice.

However, you may have passed up an excellent opportunity to make a lot of money. Don’t forget that your parent’s belief isn’t necessarily true; there are thousands of extremely rich people who made their fortunes by honest means. So in this example your belief may not have served you.

Once you understand that a belief is simply a thought that you repeat to yourself often and eventually convince yourself of its truth, even when it’s not true and doesn’t serve you; you will begin to examine all your beliefs more thoroughly.

A Skeptical MindIn our world there is much deception, misinformation, corruption and outright lies, so when it comes to the important issues in life it pays to have an open and discerning mind. There’s some confusion about the words: skeptical, cynical and gullible, so I’ll define them in the sense that I mean them here.

A cynical person is a pessimist whose mind is closed and who is unwilling to examine other belief systems. Instead, cynics prefer to lump anything outside of their own belief systems into a box along with folk stories. A gullible person accepts any and every idea as true without any proper inquiry or examination. Both cynicism and gullibility fall into the category of ignorance.

On the other hand, a skeptic has an open mind and is willing to examine. A skeptic doesn’t assume one way or another and doesn’t pre-judge new ideas, but rather listens to them and finds out for himself the truth or the falseness of those ideas. Thus, having a skeptical mind is the preferred state.

Getting back to my statement that we create our own reality, consider this quotation by the man who set India free, Mahatma Gandhi:

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”

Or in words which are useful for understanding what I’ve said above: even though most people believe that hard work is necessary to make money it doesn’t mean they are right. And just because it’s not yet common knowledge that we create our own reality, it doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Game Of RememberingAs we examine and join more of life’s dots, more of life’s big picture is revealed to us. Once we’ve joined a certain amount of dots the picture becomes unmistakable. The more I see of life’s big picture, the more I realize that life is a game of remembering; remembering that which we all, inherently, already know.

At the same time, remembering also means that as we get more in touch with our higher or spiritual self, who we really are, in a sense, we’re becoming aware of and re-connecting or re-membering with the greater part of us.

Can you really afford to dismiss what I am saying as nonsense? Or are you ready to open your mind to new ideas and examine your beliefs? Then together, we’ll discover what is true and what can be recycled or discarded as it no longer serves us. I hope you’ll join me on a journey that will enable you to re-mind yourself to re-member and be who you really are.