Who You Are is Not What You Do!
I have been having an interesting exchange with a friend. It’s all about how we create our lives in a particular way, and then wonder why certain patterns continue to be present even though this is not what we say we want.
The conversation began with the question of polarity–which is the state of judging right wrong good bad black white–the whole state of having a strong opinion with a charge about something, instead of being the observer and noticing your preferences.
In my view this is a state of being that is constructed by the ego when we are young as a survival tool in what was perceived as an unsafe world. The ego does a fantastic job of trying to keep us safe. This is often modeled by a parent or authority figure and we often take on states of being unconsciously because on some level it feels safe-
The thing is, this is not who you are–it is what you do–and that’s an important distinction.
. . . if someone is acting jealously , we may say they are a jealous person, yet this is just a state of being that is driven by the need for safety, it’s not who they are …
. . . if someone is showing anger, again this is a state of being, all anger is really toward the self and this outward action is just a reaction and has nothing again to do with who a person is.
So, how do you stop doing something that is so much a part of you it’s unconscious and you’re in it before you know it because it is a reactive posture-
YOU BREAK THE NEURAL PATHWAYS THAT SUPPORT the HABITIATION of this PATTERN!
How you can do that is what I, and my work with Consciousness Shifting are all about -and it’s easy!
THEN YOU REPLACE THE OLD NEURAL PATHWAY WITH ONE THAT IS BASED IN LOVE. Again an easy job!
We recently did a teleclass that was introductory for our signature program Reinventing Yourself, that begins this week.
If you’re interested in how to do this you can use this link to have an introduction to and experience of Consciousness Shifting. Just listen like you are in real time and on the call when it’s happening and you can tag along and get what the call participants got too!
Here’s the link:
Enjoy!
With love and gratitude,
Karen
