Do you ever feel tense or anxious? Do you worry? Ever feel nervous? Do you get easily ruffled? Do you feel that you suffer from stress? If you believe yourself to be suffering from any of these afflictions, then you’ve let your mind play tricks on you. The inner you cannot be nervous, anxious, stressed or uncertain. The real you is incapable of being stressed or anxious. All these problems are symptoms of an over-active personality – when you feel any of these symptoms, it’s only your personality trying to trip you up.
What you must realize is that your personality – from the Latin persona, meaning a mask – is simply a mask that not only conceals the inner you from everyone else, it has misled you into believing that it is, in fact, who you are. But, psychology explains that your personality is a series of snapshots of people and events that made an impression on you during your childhood – what we normally call our formative years. You snapped photos of these things because they were big enough to make you feel good or bad about yourself at the time. Unfortunately, psychology also tells us that the normal mind is much more disposed to focus on the negative rather than the positive photographs.
And your subconscious mind is still obsessed with those snapshots and it is this obsession that gives life to your personality. Basically, your personality isn’t real – it might have got you to where you are and you may be very fond of it – but be careful you don’t fall in love with an illusion.
To rid yourself of the afflictions from which only your illusory personality can suffer – stress, worry, anxiety, self-doubt, fear, loneliness – you need to move beyond your personality, your perceived weaknesses and strengths. You’ve to go in search of the inner you because not only does the real you not know stress, worry, doubt, not only is the inner you fearless, the real you is able to achieve effortless happiness and success. The wonderful news is that you don’t need to look to hard to find the real you – it’s waiting to be discovered. You’ll uncover the real you in the calm of a reflective moment, in the experience of one of those wonderful “natural high” moments that we experience at some point in our lives – where peace and happiness reign.
However, you shouldn’t wait for the next peak moment to get over the illusions of worry, stress and all the rest. You can do that right now by practicing a little meditation. When you meditate you will start to experience that anxiety, tension and fear are only toxic thoughts and that a clear and focused mind (the real you) simply will not have anything to do with such rubbish – it has much more pressing work to do.
Tags: Personal Development, Personality, Self Improvement, Stress, Worry
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