Inner World

I've been writing and thinking a great deal about the idea of the inner self this week and I'm not sure how much of it has struck a familiar note with any of you out there. I struggle with my inner self on a fairly regular basis because I'm so wrapped up in the familiarity of my life as I've always known it. It's often easier to take the day to day, moment to moment "stuff" as it comes, respond out of old patterns, then go on to the next moment. The problem with this is that I'm being re-active in my life instead of pro-active, which is what I prefer being - and can most often be. That word "be" is also another big two letter word with carries so much meaning.

If I'm busy "doing" whatever needs to be done I may be productive, but that path takes me into a confusing territory of remembering who I am. We all need to stop and just "be" in the moment, in ourselves, in the emotion of the moment, in the joy of the moment. Keeping myself busy "doing" allows me to avoid the harder work of the inner self.

There is often difficulty awakening to their inner self, especially when "doing" the familiar keeps us distracted and feeling important. We are often so numb that we find it very hard to discover the new, interesting and adventurous parts of ourselves. That leaves us in a shadowy, strange encounter with our soul world. Perhaps it would help if we considered ourselves for a while as a stranger to out own deepest depths....view ourselves as a stranger who just walked into our inner sanctum. This might be a liberating exercise, helping to break the fearful stranglehold of complacency and familiarity. This less invasive path to our inner self might help us feel a sense of excitement and magic, mystery and inquisitiveness about the self we have rarely, if ever, met, much less conversed with, challenged, laughed and played with. We are not forever relegated to a deadened life, forever feeling that there's something missing, something more that we intuitively know is available to us, but haven't found a way to reach.

I am a great believer in the power of the subconscious and the means by which it reaches out and gives us messages via dreams. I journal, I write my dreams and interpret them as best as I can or have my partner help me with them. I've learned a great deal about myself and am excited about the possibilities of growth. I think that's why this blogspot opportunity has become so important to me. I'd like for others to experience this new consciousness. Perhaps if more of us could become more consciously aware of the self that lies within; the self that's largely been betrayed by the society that raised us a new collective consciousness would develop that might just change the world.

I hope you begin, if you haven't already, to become with your inner self. There's an amazing world that dwells within. Namaste my friends.