About your personality

Your personality is everything that you have taught yourself. At first there was just a kind of universal state of being. And then you started to learn to entertain the idea of limitation. For example: nice, allowed, wanted, wrong etc. Every limitation that you have taught yourself that way (being stimulated by your surroundings or not), lead to a further limitation of your experience of your original state of awareness. And now you almost only experience the sum of all the rules, standards, values and other limitations that you have put on the things that come to your awareness. And this result you have learned to call "you" and "world vision".

There are people that kind of mirror your ideas of "you" and "world vision", for example because you were raised in the same family, or went to the same school, or are friends for quite some time, or watch the same programs on tv. There are also people that differ immensely from you, for example people in other cultures can make you aware of that. Now you can see that it is simply a matter of what everybody taught himself.

It costs a lot of energy to maintain such an image of yourself and the world: you have to think about it, talk about it, read about it, watch tv, control, check, and all other kinds of things. The essence in all this is your thinking: there it all happens, that is the place where you create those images of yourself and the world. If you do not think, there is no personality at that moment. But that state of mind has become very unfamiliar to you, so it is very likely that this will only last for a very brief moment. You are very used to the idea that interpretation, activity and input can only come from your personality. It is not "wrong" to have a personality, but there will come a moment where you find it wanting. It simply loses its attraction for you in its endless repetition of the same ideas. It also cannot bring any real solution for the greater issues of life. And it is just a matter of choice: you can choose to no longer strengthen these limiting thought patterns.

The original state of being is called your inner Self on this site. And that has not changed a bit, regardless of the thoughts your personality has entertained for so long. Actually you only have limited your awareness of yourself for a while by all the rules and interpretations you tried to establish, and tried to label that ingenious mindset "you". But you can learn to undo that way of thinking and remember your natural state of mind. You will find that that feels much nicer and at home, and more free. Although your personality will label the process in which it is dismantled "fearful" and "unwanted", and that is an aspect that will not remain unnoticed when you start with this!

When you look for more inspiration: this column is the first in the series of columns to begin with.