Friday, May 11, 2012

How Do You Relate With Your Inner World?

In all the coaching work I do whether one on one or in groups, I find that the way people relate to their inner world is rarely even on their radar, let alone what I would call healthy.

We have been so deeply hypnotized by the projections on the screen of the 'outer' world that we forget that is exactly what they are, projections and the originator of those projections is within. So there really isn't much point in trying to make changes on the screen; that's a lot of hard work and is inevitably ineffective in the long run. We can take away one set of characters and/or scenes and think we've actually changed something but the projections coming through the lens of the inner world invariable come along and obliterate any real changes bringing us right back to the same old experiences. Why? Because the picture that we struggle with is on the lens, not on the screen. The lens is what I would call the layer of beliefs, memories and assumptions through which we view life, it isn't what's real either, that's beyond the lens, but the lens needs to be cleaned at least somewhat in order to be able to see what film is actually playing so we can really enjoy the movie. The way I figure it, the source of the movie is Essence and it's playing all the time. It's actually a beautiful moving tableau of Life filled with colour and adventure and possibility. When the lens is clear, the beauty shines through; when it is caked with old pieces of film and fluff that we're still hanging on to, whether consciously or unconsciously, it becomes more and more distorted with time as it gets dimmer and dimmer and the essence of the movie is lost.


That's why we need to learn to relate to our inner world in a totally different way than most of us have been taught or decided. When our relationship with our beliefs and feelings becomes more compassionate and understanding we can see that even though it is filled with distortion there are no bad guys here, only innocence trying to survive. Then those layers begin to dissolve and even though they may come up again and again, they become less and less distorted and dark and scary because we can see right through them to what's Real and Beautiful and True. Mmmm, delicious.

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