The Hitchhiker’s Guide to becoming your own Teacher in Life
Many people will not like to hear the truth about purpose. Only those who don’t wish to suffer unnecessarily in the search for a non-existent idealistic purpose, and find their actual purpose instead, will significantly benefit from what I’m about to explain. Fortunately, this will be a short article, so there is hardly any time lost in reading it.
“When you struggle against the present moment, you are actually struggling against the entire universe…” —Deepak Chopra
“To truly know and be yourself, it is necessary to cleanse all you have accumulated that is unnecessary, half true, and untrue.” — Samwell Newman See also: “How to be your Self”
To learn how to be your Self, you will first need to know for sure who you really are. However, asking yourself ‘who am I?’ is not going to help you much. Most of us don’t know who we are, so we come up with answers that include our name. “I’m Frank”. “I’m Teresa”. But…
Are you seeking to reprogram your subconscious mind? That is pretty easy if you let someone else do it for you. There are numerous ways to ‘get it done’, not unlike a facelift, but are you sure that it’s what you really need?
Although the majority of people have grown more and more sceptical of instant solutions, we are often still hoping to find it someday somewhere, convinced that it would solve all our problems. Win the lottery, find the perfect job or house, find the ideal partner, etcetera.
“Even if your worst fears become a reality, you can still only face that reality when it becomes the here and now. When have you ever not dealt with the here and now? Has worrying ever made it better?” — Samwell Newman See also: “3 Radical Ideas to (dis)solve your Problems”
I am not a Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, etcetera, but because of where I grew up I am more familiar with the stories of the bible than with most other religious texts. Lucifer, Evil, Satan and other biblical terms and names are therefore easier for me to analyze and put into the perspective of…
Are you convinced that you are poor or at least short of money? This belief will certainly not help and most likely even restrict your possibilities to change that. So what can you do? Being rich is mostly associated with the possession of money, but it has become abundantly clear that money cannot buy you…
Are you struggling to get through life? Are you finding it difficult to get up in the morning and start the day ‘as if it were on purpose’? So many things are offered these days to help you change your life, achieve new goals, find new connections, gain new insights. But there is one new insight, one change, one profound shift in your consciousness that you will need to go through first, for any of these other goals, connections, and insights to have a true and lasting effect… and it is easier than it sounds.