BE your Self
remember who you really are
 


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Behave yourself

From an early age on, to your personality it is very clear that there must be something very wrong with you, since you are reminded frequently that you should do things 'differently'. And this does not stop when you grow up: even friends, partners and in your working life this continues. Now it is not a very pleasant thing to be reminded of frequently, so you are likely to have blocked this from your awareness as much as possible and have come up with all kinds of ways in order to meet the expectations of the outside world, which usually prevents you from ending up in a lot of trouble. Occasionally people choose to generally not meet the demands, which in itself is a personality solution as well (now you make the standard true through opposing it).

You have taught yourself to identify with whatever the body does, does not and says, learned to see this as 'you', and its management seems to be exclusively given to your personality. And so you believe that when somebody else believes you have to do something differently, this means 'you' obviously have to change. Still, in itself it does not matter what you say or do or do not do, it is only the interpretations which are made which turn it into an issue. So by opposing the demand, or doing things against the will of your personality, or adding it to the will of your personality, only once more makes an interpretation a truth in itself.

The alternative, which can be found through consciously inviting your inner Self into the situation, asks for inspiration from a different source than your personality. This results into at least questioning the idea that your personality is exclusively in charge of your lif, and start looking for something else. Letting go of your seemingly control does not mean that you now no longer behave. Or misbehave. It simply is about not making it an issue in itself anymore, and let your sayings, actions and quiet times be inspired by your inner Self.

Now when you start practicing this awareness and choices, you no doubt will go through the phase where you act according to the inspiration of your inner Self, and find that your personality interprets the situation afterwards. And even though your personality was not involved in the action, he now does attempt to judge himself for it. Now it is very likely that the outcome is that you have not behaved as a 'good personality', simply because of the fact thát he was not involved, you literally 'have not behaved'. As usual, this should be prevented from happening in the future, and so you are likely to face counter-reactions, especially through feelings and bodily issues, to convince you  that you should put your personality back in charge once again. 

This is a logical part of the process, and once you are familiar with the idea this is so, it is much less frightening when you find yourself in it. It is simply about one of your personalities basic judgments which he projects onto almost every situation, and it usually takes a while before you are fully aware of what is going on and have moved on. Simply continue and use it for increasing Awareness.



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