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Why it’s Important to Just “Be Yourself” The concept of lack is merely a false interpretation
of the mind… there is no “lack” in life, because life is everything, and it has the
capability to manifest anything it desires. Life enjoys manifesting into forms simply
for the joy of it. Life enjoys expressing itself, much like the painter who paints purely
for the pleasure of it. In your heart of hearts, you already know this to be true.
And Remember that Your Body Is An Expression Of Life.
God, Brahman, Buddha, The Tao, The Universe… all these are just different labels used to
name the one single existence, the one reality of life. A rose by any other name, is still
a rose. The very nature of life is joy, peace and love. Everything life creates comes from
that place. Including the physical body, the one that you call your body.
Your body was manifested so life can express itself in a “unique” way through it….
Through YOU! Your body truly IS unique in that there is
none like it in the whole universe. Your “being” has unique inclinations, preferences, tastes,
likes, dislikes, and so on… in other words, your body has a unique set of traits that
make up who you are. This natural conditioning is inherent in the body, and is an expression
of the intention of life that created it.
Nothing in this universe is created without intention… there is always intention before
the physical manifestation of something. And the intention of life is ALWAYS to express
itself in different ways. It expresses itself as a rock, as a tree, a flower, a human, and
so on and so forth. But all are just different forms of expression of the one life, whatever
you choose to call it. It’s important to understand that life has a boundless capacity
to take form, there’s no limitation of its ability to do so.
What this means for you is that if yourself to express your natural inclinations, preferences
and so on, they will always come from a place of love and joy, because they come from life
itself. You can express yourself in a beautiful manner if you ALLOW yourself to, but if you
try to control of force it, you will only inhibit yourself. If you take a look at the
world around you, you’ll see that nothing in nature tries to inhibit the expression
of life, and neither should you.
Natural Expression Is Always Effortless. Whatever is natural to you will feel effortless.
If something feels like an effort, it means you are trying to “force” yourself to
do something which is not natural to your unique expression. For example, if it doesn’t
feel natural to you to be an artist, tax attorney, sports athlete, or whatever then stop trying
to be one. You are a unique expression of life, so stop trying to “copy” others
or “be” like someone else. When you try to be something you’re not,
you will always feel disconnected and life will always be a struggle for you.
Most of your suffering is because of your resistance to your natural flow of expression.
This resistance is born out of external conditioning from your parents, friends, media, culture
and society at large. But when you conform to what others say you should be, do, or become,
it will always feel like a struggle because you resisting the expression of your true
nature. When You Truly “Let Go” Of Struggle, Your
Natural Expression Will Bloom. Most people try to “control” themselves
into a certain direction because they have some beliefs about the world and who they
are that inhibit their natural state of being. This is nothing but a control that the mind
exerts over the body, preventing its natural expression. Have you ever noticed that “will
power” is simply a forced by the mind to make the body do what it really doesn’t
want to?!
If you are naturally inclined towards something, you won’t need will power to sustain it.
Will power is only needed to sustain something that feels “unnatural” to you. Just observe
how you may feel at work, and you might notice that you’re operating from a place of fear,
rather than from a place of love. Life always is an expression of love, and you should find
“work” that feels like an expression of love too.
The mind is afraid of letting go of control and just letting you express yourself naturally,
because the mind has no idea what your natural expression might be… and since the mind
operates from a place of fear geared towards survival, it worries that you may end up becoming
homeless, jobless, status-less and a “reject” of society. All these fears are completely
baseless and are merely fearful future projections. You can rest assured that if you follow your
natural expression, you will be “OK”, because life always takes care of life, life
loves itself, and YOU, are life.