The EZ Secret: Tips on Living in EZ, from Anne Sermons Gillis, 11/20/2012
Published: Tue, 11/20/12
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Do you feel hopeless? Is hopelessness a common
occurrence for you? If it is, you may want to look deeper. If you
are not living in a third world country, literally starving, or
being beaten by a spouse, and you still feel frequent
hopelessness, then consider this: “Hopelessness is addictive.”
What, surely not. But yes, just a surely as a bee flies around on
two tiny seemingly inadequate wings, hopelessness is addictive. Let’s start with patterns. A pattern is defined as “unconscious repetitive behavior.” Do you always windup at the end of the same rope? If so, you are probably living out a pattern. Maybe you even have a hopelessness pattern. We tend to believe that fixing the content of our lives will make life better. Granted, we can sometimes get temporary relief, but regardless of how much we fix our external world, until we break through our psychologically bound limitations, we cannot be free. If you are intent on breaking free, the following
questions can start the process.
Here are some favorites that can be counted on for upsets.
Taking a look at the above questions does not discount genuine problems that might occur in some area, but dangling these thoughts above our lives ensures that the ego stays entrenched in pain and hopelessness. Examine the things that drag you toward helplessness
and hopelessness and be aware of how the mind uses those to keep
you in line. The four I’ve listed above come from my patterns, but I think they are popular tools of self-demise. My ego is clever in the way she leads me to this victim place where I feel like a homeless waif with no hope.” I really feel sorry for myself. It’s subtle, but when I dig deep enough, I find that subconscious hopeless is driving me. I’ve divested myself of a lot of this behavior, but it still creeps back. Fortunately, just the realization of what I’m doing usually breaks my unconscious identification with hopelessness. Changing life supporting but illusory patterns takes
conscious questioning, yet the most important aspect of change is
our willingness to have a better life. We are comfortable in pain
or feeling sorry for ourselves. We relish the thought that nothing
can or will change for us, but we are not comfortable with
pleasure and a sense of safety in our lives. Check out my article
on increasing pleasure, Treasure
Your Pleasure: http://theezsecret.com/2012/11/19/treasure-your-pleasure. I just love Fali
Engineer. He’s brimming with wisdom and always sports a
mischievous little grin. He speaks with a soft voice, but for a
man in his mid-eighties, he’s alive, funny, brilliant and
provocative. I’ve heard him talk about a river needing a support
structure. The ground supports the river. Without banks the water
would just spill out and never reach its destiny. At my request,
Fali wrote this so I could share it with you. |
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