"And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds..." Phil 4:7 is a statement about the nature of peace. Peace an outcome of living principles and is unattainable as a target of understanding. Most of us seek to understand as a means to gaining control or acquisition; which works in many cases; however the spiritual states of peace, love, joy are results of living basic life principles. Some principles are: Pay Attention, Tell the Truth, Ask for What You Want, Keep Agreements, Take Responsibility for Your Experience, Taking Care of Yourself - so that you can take care of others.
Trusting yourself is a key in each of the principles. Trusting your own mental and spiritual faculties. How often is our reality check the opinion or approval of others; not trusting our own assessment of reality. When we must understand all things, we have limited the possibilities to the most comfortable life solutions we know. Much of our understanding is filed away as fears and limitation. As a result "settling" is our only option.
- Write down a major life goal you have yet to achieve or even begin to take action on.
- For each goal, write down three uncertainties (read: fears) you have relating to each goal.
- Break it down further, and write down three reasons for each uncertainty.
- When you have three reasons for your fear, you’ll be able to start processing the change because you know where the fear stems from.
- Now you’ll be able to make a smaller changes that push you towards your larger goal.
- So begins the process of “trusting yourself.”
(Sean Ogle)
• A major life goal is to help establish an ongoing learning organization that promotes successful living with trust, integrity and creating value for others. I desired to teach and train like-minded men and women to be come leaders and teachers of this shared vision.
ReplyDelete• My uncertainties are related to my fear of being inadequate to facilitate and connect with others with this shared vision. Another fear is that my vision is will be flawed by not being in sync with universal principles and a third fear that the vision fails to connect with the heart and minds of men and women that have a like vision.
• One of the reasons for these uncertainties is connected with a number of life situations that failed to meet the level of my expectations. Another reason is the sense of urgency due to awareness of lessening stamina and increased need for greater attention to remaining healthy. A third is the awareness of my character flaws that are self-defeating.