Cultivating a New Discipline - Steps to a New Discipline

Written by Adrian Newington

MY LESSONS AND YOUR LESSONS:

My situations were unique and important for ME, but within your own situation, it is only yourself who has the ability to discern what is important for YOU. This will be your first real Adult use of instinct as you learn to identify and pursue your Inner Truth while those subtle negatives try to keep you from being free. Free to be YOU ... free to be the REAL YOU.

As you've been reading these words of mine, your thoughts could very well have been centred around some mocking disbelief relating to my use of such ordinary every day events. You might be thinking..."Perhaps this guy could do with a long holiday", or some other rationalisation. The point I want to make to you Right Now!, is to understand how subtle and cunning the excuses for not changing your

The very fact that your mind processes an excuse or a rationalisation, is a sure sign of your Ego not wanting things to alter.

Change is another thing that causes the Ego to fear, and this is when the excuses will really start pouring in. The Ego wants the status quo to be maintained with things going smoothly and without concern or effort. It wants the established patterns of behaviour to remain intact.

Remember, change is another unknown for the Ego. It needs facts and figures. It needs reference material.

It is very powerful, but when it has had an experience of the fruits of Faith and Trust, it will slowly come to accept the unknown more and more. This is why we need courage.

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE:

Please be honest with yourself. You owe it to yourself to grow in Truth, Strength and Love. Start opening up to the world around you by opening up to yourself like you've never opened up to anyone else in your entire life. You are your best and most trusted friend, and you certainly want the best for yourself. You are a good person, you are a kind person and you will strive like you've never strived before. You are becoming NEW, you WILL become new. You will shine and your light will touch others as you continue to understand all aspects of your life... Your life that was, the life that is now, and the life that is to come.

Your future is in YOUR hands, and only you know the direction that you need to pursue; only you through your own Truth, can guide yourself to a peace most suited to your own self. This is the importance of being totally honest with yourself. Do not fear your Truth, for the True Loving You knows not fear, but only Love. It is the Ego which fears, and...

YOU ARE NOT YOUR EGO!

...it is but one part of your entire self; it is a part of you that serves a purpose but will be put in its proper perspective as you develop Love as your new Guiding Force.

SLOW DOWN:

Take time to do these things peacefully, gently, and patiently. There will be no gain if you rush into the task with either some hidden resentment; a reserve that the technique is a bit suspect; or in fact, any other negative you might be harbouring within. You are making yourself new, and you are becoming someone whose life will be modelled on Peace, Love of self and others, and Patience. You must open up to trust your instincts. Remember that the past mistakes were guided from the Ego which acts upon fear. Instinct is truth motivated

Bring a job to its logical conclusion, especially when it's completion may only take a very short time. We can all rise to the occasion when the going gets rough, but it those seemingly insignificant events in our everyday life that silently bash at our psyche and leave us bearing subtle wounds to hold us back from becoming the whole and full person that we are capable of being.

In summarising this chapter, the purpose of this level of self examination is for developing a technique which shall bring to the forefront of your thinking, many unconscious patterns of behaviour. Once this is firmly established, you will start to gain insights into your Ego relinquishing its stranglehold over the other parts of yourself; those parts that long to unite into that Whole and Free being that you are supposed to be. You will then begin to know freedom.

As you progress in this task, you will cease to do things automatically or without thinking. You will learn to stop and question; evaluate and choose. You will learn and understand; you will grow and step out on your own again. Your needs will be few as you find more and more, that what is most important...that what is really needed, is already contained within.

CONTEMPLATION:

One day I thought...
"My new way of thinking is now Second Nature to me."
But I soon realised I had some more work to do,
because I wanted it to become First Nature to me.

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