Learning

As alternative for the pleasant however not under the control of your personality functioning Knowing of your inner Self, he chose 'learning' as a tool. This functions somewhat like this: something happens, your personality looks for the logic within it, and then starts to create links to all kinds of different events which contain one ore more of these ingredients.

For example: something happens, like a ball breaks your living room window. What are the ingredients here: playing children, age 13-15 years. Ball. Your house. Unpleasant. From now on, when you spot 13 to 15 year olds, you may find yourself somewhat on the alert. When they are playing even more, with a ball the level increases, and it peaks when they do this in the same area as where the unpleasant event happened.

You now taught yourself successfully that you have to be watchful whenever the above ingredients come into your awareness, and seen from this perspective it is logical for your personality to be alert, in his vision it would even be naive and ridiculous not to be, since he knows 'how it works' and you would bring yourself into unnecessary trouble. According to the logics of your personality. There is no guarantee that it will never happen again. Neither one that it will ever happen again. Or that your personality would be able to prevent it from happening. So through your personality you can never really make this work, since in the beginning the balance is likely to easily move towards the expectation that the unpleasantness is likely to happen once more, only to be weakened in time through getting different experiences and/or over and over not happening what you expected.

Now this is a clear example, but you will find that you use a tremendous amount of situations in your everyday life, pleasant and unpleasant ones in the same way, and so you keep on building until you find yourself in an almost impossible situation.

Your personality presents 'learning' as an airtight case and has some fine arguments for why this is good, necessary, useful and such. This can only work becáuse he successfully excluded your experience of Knowing through your inner Self from your awareness. And your personality knows very well that once you re-experience the peaceful, quiet, sure and trusting Knowing once more, you immediately lose your interest in his weak and tiresome alternative for it.

Still, you can help yourself to start questioning this mechanism, simply by becoming truly aware of what it is that your personality is doing in a 'learning situation' and describe for yourself clearly what it is that he actually achieves with it. Does it really bring you what your personality intended to: controllability, preventing unpleasant experiences from happening, or repeating pleasant ones. Take a clear look especially to what it is that you experience based on this 'learning' and had to do or not do each time nothing turned out to happen and also how much this adds up during the day!
When you find yourself confronted with a huge learning issue and you find it hard to get a grip on it, then start practicing with normal, everyday life experiences to get an understanding of the mechanism, then later on you can use this to understand more complicated or intense issues.
Also, you can direct your attention to the alternative there is to experience a situation: through your inner Self. In this example, when they play once more in front of your house, then simply ask your inner Self to experience this situation through him. This will at least inspire you to open up to inspiration other than the one of your personality only.
Furthermore, you can experience it in situations where your personality creates a new learning experience: consciously watch and see it happen!
Also, question yourself what the true goal should be of any experience in your life: meet personality rules - or something different? Use it to strengthen your personality or your inner Self? Avoid experiences or transform them?
And last but not least: take a look whether for example the BEcourse fear might be right for you to inspire you during the next two weeks.

Do realize that the alternative for the perspective of your personality is not that the opposite is true, so in the example as used above the alternative is not that your living room will become a ball collector, it is that it will no longer be an issue in itself. You are even likely to be pleasantly surprised by what practically follows from there.