15/08/2022
If it’s under your skin, you own it -
Most human beings find themselves and their identities in thought.
Most people think that they are who they think they are: whether their good or bad or worthy or unworthy, deserving or undeserving.
These are all thoughts in the mind, and so for most human beings their identity, their sense of self is actually being generated by the mind. This is what I call the ‘false self’. It’s the sense of self that simply generated through the movement of thought and conditioning.
So when we start to look at mind which is nothing but thought, we start to notice that there is thought, thought moves in the mind and the assumption is that you are your thoughts that somehow your thoughts tell you about yourself.
Thoughts happen and occur within you but the thoughts are not who you are. Thoughts do not tell you who you are and can not tell you who you are because they are just temporary movements of energy.
To be a human being is to have feelings and sensations, so there are obvious feelings and sensations running through your body right now. Your attention may be drawn to different feelings or sensations or places in your body and generally we are taught to identify with these feelings …so if anger arises we say to ourselves “ I – am angry” , as if I and anger where the same thing.
If we are happy we say I – am happy or if you are hot or cold we say “ I am hot...or cold” and so we associate ourself with these feelings
And so obviously feelings present themselves but we are not our feelings, feelings happen within us. We also find that human minds have beliefs, an array of beliefs about who we are, beliefs about others, the world, what’s right or wrong, good or bad, how things could or should be , an almost infinite variety that float through our minds as conditioned patterns.
We have been taught to associate with the various beliefs within the mind. To the point where we actually become to identify with the beliefs.
We will say “ I – am a Buddhist, a Christian, a democrat , a healer, think this – believe that therefore we start to identify and derive our identities through what we believe and disbelieve and yet through investigation , in a willingness to look again and look closer , to look more deeply at this moment we can see that all beliefs are just conditioning of the mind taught to us by our family, peers, community, culture and religions.
A belief does not define you or the world or others.
And so, while the mind derives its identity through belief, in truth, belief is just a pattern of conditioning that flows through the mind.
And then we look at the entirety of our ego and personalities. Every single human has a unique way in which spirit manifests as a human being.
A personality is nothing more than a mask that we wear...And sadly most human beings are closely identified with the mask of their personality structure, they think they are their personalities. And this leads to a sense of separation, to a sense of isolation eventually, but when we see the thing we call personality belongs to the body and the mind.
The True Self – the Soul , knows itself only us infinite love, freedom and eternal joyfulness. When you have a reaction to something that is occurring from the manifested world of relativity ask yourself “Is this true” ?
Am I really the one who is a victim of the world or am I a Soul having a human experience in order to ‘awaken’ to my true identity instead of my conditioned identity.
If it arises in your body as a thought , sensation or emotion...you immediately identify as a limited human with cellular memories ( DNA) that can date back as far as your childhood or womb memories... to the beginning of the time of separation from the source of all things – the Ground of Being.
If its under YOUR skin – you OWN it as a gift of going within and self inquiring – Am I really this (a bundle of unhealed wounds) or is this a gift of Self Realisation.
When hearing this message , most people would rather deny, get angry, abandon, blame or justify and defend, but this again is just another way the ego tries to manipulate us into thinking that some one has done us wrong – in order to keep up the illusory story of separation.
Next time something occurs in your life that has you react through the action of defence or blame – go within and ask yourself “What am I feeling”.
Find the emotion that says “I am feeling attacked...I am feeling unaccepted , disempowered....unloved” and then follow the seeds back to where this emotion is familiar in your life, was it a year ago, 5 years ago, 20 years ago when you where at school?
Was it when you where a child?
If you do this (correctly) you will find that the emotion that was triggered by your last experience has actually been there for a very very long time......most probably before you where even consciously on your ‘spiritual path” when you where first learning to identify yourself as a body, with a name, an age and gender instead of being taught that you are a radiant pure Soul on a journey of Self discovery.
Who “I truly am’ is prior to all form, all time, all worlds, all conditioning, all labels, all stories and all identifications. When you Know this as your Truth – you will be free forever. Robyn Collins
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