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WHERE ARE YOU? The intention of this small book is to present you with some ideas, and give you the opportunity to choose them. and to use them to improve the quality of your life. It's not about telling you how you should run your life, nor how to sort our your "problems". It is about something within you - about contacting something within you that you may not have recognised. The intention is to give you a nudge, a reminder about your own truth, and some simple ways in which you can make that contact. It is about opening up your life. making a move from the kind of life where, although you feel you are doing the best you can in the circumstances, it still seems like you have no control over what happens to you. It is about making a move from the place where "things" happen to you. other people influence and mould your life. and nothing you do seems to make any difference in the quality of your life. It is also about not taking yourself too seriously! "Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink." - SUZUKI ROSHI To make your life work you really do need to have a basic understanding of where you are starting from. What usually happens when you think about any improvements in the quality of your life, is that you see yourself starting from the beginning, seeing yourself as a clean slate and writing your life as you wish you were. Unfortunately this is not possible. You start from here. looking at the facts of your life as they are now. You are not a clean slate, you are well written upon. Your beliefs, patterns or behaviour, thoughts and established emotional responses make up you. as you are. And this is where you start - not at the begin- ning, because that has already happened, but here in the middle where you are. "I yam what I yam." POPEYE
It is important that you begin to see yourself as you are, because that is the way you are. No amount of wishing you were different hating yourself for being that way, wanting to change or simply moving around the material circumstances of your life will make any difference to your being that way. To accept yourself as you are is like accepting that a brick is a brick. Whether you like it or not it is still a bnck.
So. how did you get to be the way you are? |