Self-evaluation and reality
QUESTION: Masters I notice that I have three deep seated thoughts that create my reality. 1. low self-esteem (“you idiot!), 2. fear of the other and 3. remorse for actions in this and other lives. I intend to smooth out these grooves in the mind, wrinkles in the mind lake, samskaras. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ~Bill, Australia
ANSWER: First, for those unfamiliar with the term samskara, it is a Sanskrit word and equates to what we call your belief systems, which control all your actions during a lifetime. It is through the process of understanding what motivates you that you can learn the life lessons that created the imbalance in the first place and are the things you wished to work on while on Earth.
Fear is always around during a human existence because it is the neon sign showing you what you chose to work on in that lifetime. There are only two emotions or energies a human faces: love and fear. Anything that isn’t love is some form of fear. To not have fear is to have completed all you came for and to be able to exist in unconditional love. So don’t chide yourself for your fears; let them show you the way to growth and understanding.
Self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-love are interconnected lessons for you. Stepping back and examining when those feelings come to you will help you pinpoint what it is you desire to learn. Both these traits and the remorse, or hatred of yourself, can be more easily addressed if you stop giving them so much power.
You give power to a problem when you concentrate on it and acknowledge its existence. If you ignore the past and choose to be only in the present, where nothing has occurred yet until you set it in motion, you are simply dealing with a single situation instead of dragging along the whole history of your life. This is the concept of living in the moment.
To resolve the strings holding you to past issues, you first have to deal with your interpretations of the resulting energy. This is accomplished by taking each negative energy and following it to its origin, observing the trigger point, and choosing how you would deal with it now based on all the lessons you have learned between initiation and today.
You are doing great work – keep it up!