Who
Are you?
Have
you ever asked yourself the question 'Who am I?'
Have
you ever asked that question and sat within the silence of
your mind and listened for the answer? Waited a few moments
and then asked again… …again… …again…
And
then repeated the process again the next day… and the
one after that… …and the one after that…
Try
it.
See
what happens.
One
of two things might happen.
1.
You get an answer.
2. You don't.
The question does two things. It lets the Universe
know that you are waking up. It diverts your energy
from where it was being dissipated to a point of focus.
Whenever you focus your energy, something happens; something
changes.
I
need to clarify my terminology, just so you can be clear about
what I am communicating to you.
Universe:
the Loving Energy that everything is a part of.
Waking Up: coming into the full awareness of who and
what you are.
Energy: the essence that is everything; the substance
that flows through you and which is transformed by your thoughts
about both you and it.
Focus: that of which you maintain a clear unchanging
view.
When
you ask that question with sincerity, you will start a process
that will transform your life. It may not do it quickly, but
the very first time you ask that question your life will start
to change direction, and every time you repeat that question,
your life will move. Events will happen around you as a result
of your question. You see, the moment you make a sincere request
for information the Universe has no choice but to supply that
information. So in the very act of asking that question your
Universe starts to re-configure itself around you so that
you will experience the answer to your question.
Note
that I say experience the answer to your question, not get
or be given the answer to your question.
One
of the activities I engage in is hypnotherapy. So if you asked
me what hypnosis is like, I could probably use a lot of words
to describe what being hypnotised is like. And when I'd finished
you'd have some ideas about it, but you still wouldn't know
what it was actually like unless you came to me for treatment
or listened to one of my Spiritual Hypnosis Cd's. And that's
because knowledge is not even close to experience.
If
you want to know how to make a beautiful piece of furniture
do you ask a craftsman with a lifetime of experience at crafting
wood, or do you seek out someone who has read and remembered
the information in several good woodwork books?
There is a world of difference between knowledge and experience.
The
Universe favours experience.
So
when you ask that question, you may get an answer. You may
get a slightly different answer each time you ask. But if
you really want the answer you need to maintain that focus
and keep on asking; because this allows you to experience
who you are. If, say, your destiny is to be a Spiritual Teacher,
and that is your prime purpose for being here right now, then
if you ask that question at age 22, you might find quite a
different response to asking that question at age 52.
At
22, in order to fulfil your destiny, you may need to experience
certain aspects of life. You may need to experience religious
indoctrination, and then at age 42 release yourself from that,
because it isn't until age 42 that your life experiences have
given you the knowledge, awareness, and confidence to know
your own mind. You may need to experience the pleasures and
pains of relationships, you may need to rear a family; you
may even need to suffer in order to allow you to develop a
compassion and empathy for those who were lost, like yourself.
It may be that you need to travel the path without knowledge
of who you truly are, because that is the only way you can
ever be an authority on what you are about to teach. How can
you be a Guide without an intimate awareness and experience
of the pain of those who need your guidance? How can you be
a craftsman without serving an apprenticeship?
The
'answers' you receive at age 22 will cause you to move into
the optimum situations for you to arrive at your Destiny in
the most efficient way. But in order for you to become who
you truly are, it may be necessary for you to be something
else for a while. Trust is a necessary requirement in sincerely
seeking an answer.
So
you see, what asking does is to allow those experiences that
you need into your Life. What asking does is help you to avoid
blind alleys. It gets you to where you need to be more directly.
It brings more focussed experiences into your world. But most
importantly it allows you to enjoy the Journey.
You
see, once you start asking that question, you will start to
have an experience of the role of coincidence in assisting
you; you will start to have an experience of everything that
happens to you being meaningful; you will realise that you
are inviting into your life all of your experiences. When
you make these realisations - and they just happen, you can't
make them - one day you will just smile a huge smile when
you see how magical and magnificent the Universe is. One day
you will be overwhelmed as you suddenly see all the magical
little steps that had to take place (some of them even happening
before you asked that question) in order for all circumstances
to be perfect at one moment in time - just because you asked
'Who Am I?'
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