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Explore practical and profound ways to overcome stress, conquer challenges, navigate difficult relationships, and break free from the chains of negative thoughts. Your Secret You is about finding freedom in a world where inner peace seems impossible.
Be Still and Know
A self-awareness exercise you can practice anywhere (once you know how to do it.) Listen to or download the audio below.
Featured Lesson: Closing the Gap
Why does it seem so impossible to live by the truth? Why is it so difficult to be honest with yourself and others, and why is it so easy to fall into the same mistakes again and again? Living truthfully, or perfectly, appears to be an impossible task.
But the answer is frustratingly simple. It’s like a man who is chained down to a table in a dark hole. Looking to his left, he sees a ladder–illuminated by a faint light shining from above. The man was told his whole life, that if anyone was going to save him from trouble, it would be himself. Many of those people claimed to believe in God, and because this advice was so pervasive, it was almost a part of himself.
But as time drew on in that hole, the man had a small sense of doubt that grew. He doubted, even if only a little, that he could save himself. He realized that by tugging on his restraints, he only tired himself out and made the situation worse. He thought up all kinds of potential escape plans, but then he realized that even those thoughts only brought more agony when they proved useless.
Suddenly, something clicked into place in his being. By realizing he couldn’t save himself from his problems, he understood that he was free of judgement. Prior to this experience, if the man had ever seen someone in a seemingly impossible situation, he usually reacted by blaming the person in trouble–because in his mind, they should have been able to save themselves like he beleived he was able to save himself. Now with this new realization, he could no longer judge himself or others again.
Then after that realization came another. He knew that if he found patience with his situation, and relaxed into the knowing that he could not save himself, that the answer to his escape would become plain to him.
He found himself tempted to doubt this revelation, but he knew that the only thing he could have in this situation was faith. Every time doubt would creep in to replace faith, he doubted the doubt and held onto faith. After what felt like weeks, or even years that passed more and more easily, someone crawled down into the hole and unchained the man, and they both climbed up the ladder effortlessly.
That someone in this story is God. And God can only save if you surrender your conviction that you are God. Not many would openly admit that they beleive themselves to be God, but it’s apparent by the way most people live. They beleive that in any difficult situation, they can save themselves. They beleive that if something is imperfect with their life, they should be able to fix it. They judge others with the conviction that anyone should be able to save themselves, and they live from a spiritual illusion of being a supreme judge, jury, and executioner of everyone around them.
This is why the first will be last and the last will be first. This is why those who lose their life will save it, and those who save their life will lose it. This is why the poor in spirit are blessed, and the meek shall inherit the earth. When one believes that they are the supreme ruler of their own life, you could say that they live with a full cup. But those who live with an empty cup are the ones who have room for God to pour his wisdom out to them.
Some people will come to the truth where they’re at, but some will suffer in the most horrible ways before they’ll ever find humility. Many will never find that path. But if one seeks, one will find, and all your needs in life truly will be met–even if it may not seem so in the horrible, wicked playground of the world.