Follow up on my last entry: "Master of Your Inner World"

One day after publishing my blog entry "Master of Your Inner World", I was reviewing a book recommendation that I received lately for BestSpirituality.com.

The book in question is "The Messiah Seed" by Story Waters. So I did a search on google and found out a site dedicated to it. I then found and read an article written by Story Waters titled "The Power to Choose Joy - A bridge to The Messiah Seed" and found out that it was very compatible with the short article I just wrote "Master of Your Inner World" and thought I would share this with you, as it could help you understand even better what I was trying to convey.

An excerpt:

"To see your Self as not being accountable for your state of being is to live within a belief in external forces that have control over you. This can be manifest in such forms as a controlling person, governmental laws, or a lack of abundance; basically symbols of perceived limitation. This births the ability to blame . To blame is an attempt to hold this externalized aspect of your power responsible for your state of being, instead of being fully responsible for your Self. Re-assimilating this externalized power is a part of the journey to being All That You Are. To take back that power is to come to the realization that all power over your being is yours alone . It is to realize, within your Self, the absolute power of choice over your being .

To experience your power of choice is to realize that you are the one that possesses the power to choose joy for your Self. When you realize joy as being a choice you will realize that all states, including suffering, must equally be a choice. Through this you will see that to take responsibility for your own suffering is to empower your Self to be able to choose joy. A part of the journey to joy is therefore to take ownership and responsibility for your own suffering. To do this release all sense of 'blaming others'. Understand that this will be a gradually unfolding process."


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Master of Your Inner World

One understanding that could tremendously change your life, if you haven't realized this before, is that even though it doesn't always feel so, you are ultimately the master of your inner world.

What this means is that ultimately, you are the only one who has the power to decide how anything outside yourself affects you and gets you out of a peaceful and pleasant state of mind. How could it be otherwise? Isn't it YOUR inner world after all?

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ~ Earl Nightingale

Realizing that the cause of negative emotions, by which I mean anger, irritation, impatience, resentment, self-pity, boredom, and other such feelings that normally figure largely in a person's day, is in oneself rather than outside oneself, can be very transformative but also highly threatening to the ego because all of a sudden, one has to take responsibility for them. One cannot anymore blame anyone or anything outside him or her for any disturbance to one's inner peace.

But very rare are those who have the courage to take responsibility for their negative emotions because doing so would be the most important step toward getting rid of them and believe it or not, somewhere in us, we cherish our negative emotions. In the words of Dr. David Hawkins (paraphrased):

You have to be willing to surrender the payoff of negative emotions. Negative emotions give you a tremendous payoff. People hang onto resentment, victimhood, etc, and really play it to the point of death. They need to be the martyr, the victim, the wronged one, and justify their resentment, and this even at the cost of survival and success. Because people love feeling sorry for themselves. You have to be willing to give that up - That's all. Am I willing to let go of all the negative payoffs I'm getting? If you do, that means you've begun a new life.

So we love our negative emotions, even though they are .. well .. negative. Which means that they are ultimately not good for us, neither are they usually good for those around us. I like to compare negative emotions to candies. They bring instant gratification but at the cost of our health and greater good.

The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment.

If you want to improve your capacity to enjoy life and be happy, then consider starting owning and taking responsibility for your negative emotions. Realize that ultimately, YOU are the master of your inner world and that nothing outside yourself is the cause of your suffering and should be blamed for it. This will change everything.

Until the next insight,

Stephane Boucher
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More related quotes

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

You cannot always control circumstances. But you can control your own thoughts. ~ Charles E. Popplestone

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. ~ Arbie M. Dale

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it. ~
James Allen

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. ~ Epictetus

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ~ J. Donald Walters

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! ~ Neal Maxwell

A man cannot directly chose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. ~ James Allen