Core Self Images:   

If your early life was influenced by any of the major religions,  you probable received a significant dose of the garbage beliefs listed below.   Check with Creator and muscle test yourself  to find out which one's you are still carrying in your subconscious.    

You may never have been directly told any or these beliefs, but still be carrying some of them.   They may have come to your from your genetic heritage, or from a past life.   As as small child, you may have acquired them by example from the behavior of the adults in your life.

"I'm a victim."  

"I'm an inherently evil sinner and it's impossible for me to be otherwise."  

The exact words may be different from any listed above.   What you are seeking is the underlying feelings that are commonly defined as a "Low Self Image."   

The Problem Side:   

The Ego -- The Self --  Demands Acknowledgment.   It demands recognition.   The message it speaks to the world is:   "I exist.   Look at me.   Listen to me.   Pay attention to me.   I want to be noticed. "    There is a constant struggle to give a definition to one's self image.    

The demand often is "Notice me with praise or admiration, or I'll do something to get negative attention."    The negative, "notice me" roles include:    Doing something destructive or harmful.   Playing the victim.  Getting sick or injured.    Creating and playing these problem roles is often one's only source of identity.   

Inter-human relationships are often based upon playing roles for each other.  I'll be this for you and you be that for me.   When ego rules one's life, there is the need to compare one's self to others and to  see one's self as  worthy, strong, smart, __whatever__ .    

There are payoffs for these role identities.   Most humans are not stupid.  They are much more commonly stuck in a set of false beliefs.   They believe that what they are doing is the right thing to do.   They believe that their actions serve a purpose.  

Some people get so completely stuck in their role identities that they become pathologically destructive.  Violence based on religious beliefs provide an incredibly destructive example of this.    The belief is that they are justified in committing mass murder because they're murdering infidels.   "I 'm committing murdering for God.  God is the ultimate mass murderer of non-believers, and he even murdered his own child, so I must be doing God's work."  

Others simple come from fear and the urge for self survival.   Their actions  commonly show up as the struggle for money, power, fame, and the like.  

The Context of Life:   The false ego-based beliefs often set the foundation  (the background), for a pain-filled  life.   They produce an underlying negative attitude that permeates all activity.   Poor me.   Life sucks.  Nothing works.  I'm a victim.   It's hopeless.  it's inevitable.  It can't be any other way.   These attitudes may show up as irritation, anger, impatience, fear, discontent, resentment, jealousy, or as the all-too-common F_ _k you attitude.   

These negative attitudes  are not statements of being.   These are statements of the person's belief.    The Universal Law of Thought  tells us that one's thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and emotions create one's personal  reality.   This "life-sucks" attitude produces  life experiences that matches his/her belief.    Then, while still in denial of any responsibility, person then says,  "See, I told you life sucks.    And the cycle begins again.   

Scapegoating:  Another common game that humans  play is called scapegoating.   This is Denial and Projection in action together.   The human tendency is to to deny responsibility for their own experiences.    Blame is projected out there to those bad people.  Someone out there did this to me.   It's their fault.   They are the bad guys.   Therefore, I'm justified in hating and/or destroying them.  

Problem Source:   The source of our problems is not "out there" somewhere.   The source is in our own, unexamined set of beliefs and attitudes  --  beliefs and attitudes that were most likely taken on early in life and accepted without question, or brought into this life from other life expereinces.   

Here are some commonly accepted false beliefs:    "Humans are separate from Creator/God -- separate from nature --  separate from each other.   I am  (or I am not)  __whatever__ .   I'm  not enough as I am.    I am incomplete."   Please see the Core Self Images '  in the above section.    

Parents, religious leaders, school, and the society we live in tend to dominate our beliefs and push us into roles.  

The Awakening:   

Recognizing One's Role:   Anything one says after the words , "I am ___ "  is often one's self definition.     We tend to take on roles and then define who we are by the roles we play.   What one does, or what one's major experiences area,  become the internal definition of who he or she is.     Examples:  I'm a teacher.   I'm a victim of _____ .    I'm a dog lover.    There are also group identities such as:  I'm a Democrat.   I'm a Christian.   I'm a member of ____ . 

Another way to find one's role is to watch yourself and notice if you speak and act differently with different people or in different situations.   If you find this,  ask yourself,  "Are these simple roles I'm playing or are they  self-definitions?  

The more one becomes identified with one's role, the less authentic one becomes.   To identify one's self by a role one is playing is to have a false sense of self.   

Play the Role But don't Be the Role:   Can you fulfill the obligation of the role you are playing without identifying with the role.   Are you playing the role in order to get a specific response from others?  Ask yourself:   "Why am I playing this role?   What's in it for me?   What would my life be like without this role?   What's behind / underneath this role?   Who am I without this role?   Is my role hiding something."   

Recognizing Negative Thoughts:   When you find yourself experiencing a negative emotion, take a moment to look at the thoughts that inspired your negative emotions.   Remember that thoughts and feeling are at the core of the creation process. ' 

Recognizing Negative Emotions:   When you find yourself experiencing a negative emotion,  ask yourself:  "How do I feel, right now?   Is there anger, sadness, fear, or some other "feel bad" emotion hiding behind this experience.     Again ask, "What am I feeling right now?"  Take a moment to see/hear/feel the answer to your question.

Avoid saying the words , "I am _this or that__  ."    Instead acknowledge the feeling.   I am feeling _____ .   I am experiencing ______ .    Ask yourself:  "What's causing this internal feeling?"   Look at it.    Feel it.   Just be with it for a moment.   

The Response:   

Response to Negative Emotions:   Are your internal feelings a response to the situation you find yourself in?    Is there something physical that you need to do to change the situation?   Do you simply need to remove yourself from the situation?   

What if the situation is not changeable and you can't remove yourself from it?   What about changing your response to the situation?    Ask yourself these questions:  "Are my feelings caused by the external, 'out there,'  circumstance or are they a self-created.  ---  Am I having a self-pity party?   ---  Am I playing victim?   ---  Whose in charge of my feelings?   ---   How did I participate in creating these circumstances?  ---  How did I participate in  putting myself in this situation?"  

Look around you.   Is there a co-player in this event?   Is he or she responsible for your feelings?   Whose in charge of your feelings?

Have you done this (been here)  before?   Is this a repeat of a previous experience?   What do the past and present circumstances have in common.   

Ask,  "Am I using my role to, in any way demand changes in others?   What am I getting out of these circumstances?"

What do I need in order to be complete?     What do I need in order to be me?     

The goal here is awareness.   Step one is to stop defining yourself as __whatever role you are playing__.    Step two is to avoid judging self for playing the role.   Simply be the observer.   Feel the internal feeling without judging or fighting them.   Real power comes from self and not from a role one may be playing.   

Responding to a stressful situation:  The  common ego response  to a new, stressful situation is to become angry or fearful  --  to separate one's self from it --  and then to fight it.  The negative emotions are a huge energy drain.   Not only that, when one has a strong emotional response to a negative experience,  that person  is telling the universe to bring more negative experiences.

The Alternative:   

Consider this alternative:   Accept that the situation is.  Neither condemn it or praise it.   Observe it.   Leave your emotions out of the process.   Ask "Who do I choose to be in this situation?"   and  "What is the appropriate response."  This response process may occur in split-second timing or it may take weeks to process.  

Being Versus Doing:    Notice the distinction between being and doing.   We tend to think we can solve our problems by doing without changing our state of being.   --  that we have to do __whatever___ in order to be.  Consider this alternative:  

I must first be.    

Then, If I choose to take some action, I  can  do so out of the sense of who I am .

As a result, I can then have or experience    _whatever I choose_ .   As a result of the experience, I feel  pleasure.  I feel  joy.   I feel good.    I feel like  "More."   I feel like "Do that again."    

How to Be:  Simply focus your attention on yourself.    Stop doing.  Sit quietly for a moment.   Focus on your breathing.   Feel yourself in your body.   Be there as an observer only.   Be present in this "here and now" moment, only.    If any thoughts come into your mind, just let them be.   Refocus on the "here and now" moment.   Be alert.    Be still.   Be here now.   Just breath.   Breathe consciously.   Breathe a little deeper and a little slower than usual.  Follow your breath as you breathe in and out.    Watch (be aware of) your breath.   Be aware of your body.  

Move your hand and do so from the position of the observer watching the hand move.   Shift your focus and become the doer moving the hand.   Switch back to the observer watching the hand move.   Switch back and forth until you become aware of the subtle differences between the observer and the doer.   The goal is to be aware of yourself as both the doer and the observer at the same time.   Doing is in the physical world.   Being is in the non-physical world.   

In the world of spirit: 

In the world of spirit,  you are equal to everything else.   You are everything else.   Everything is one.   While holding this perspective, nothing and nobody is better or worse.    The same way that "up" and "down" become meaningless in a zero gravity environment, "good" and "bad" cease to have any meaning in the formless world.   

We have conditioned ourselves to the form world.   We are playing a role here.   That role is:   "A doer in a human body experiencing a physical world."   Recognize the role as a role and not as who you are.   Stop identifying with the role.  

You are not your body.   You are experiencing a body, but you are not your body.   Similarly, you experience a mind, but you are not your mind.   You experience emotions, but you are not your emotions.   You are much more that the sum total of all that you experiences.   

You are an eternal consciousness playing "human being."   In this non-physical state-of-being, all the Earth-bound negative self-images are seen as illusions.   

I am an eternal aspect of Creator/God.   I am simply me being me.   I exist as "I am."    In the non-physical world, the need for an ego-based sense of self disappears.  When recognizing the oneness, a profound sense of calm and peacefulness fills your being with joy.    

Feel the joy of being.    In the physical world of duality, there is the lover and the beloved.   There is a separateness between lover and the beloved.   In  the world of oneness, love is everything combined.   Lover and the beloved are one and the same "thing."   Only in the formless world there are no "things."  Everything is energy and consciousness.  See the section titled:   Personal Transformation ' on our  New Corporate World website.   

You can't "be" for anyone else.   No one else can "be" for you.  Being is an individual, self-only state that each of us can attain, but only for ourselves.   We can be in the presence of others while being,  but it's still your own unique experience.   

On Being:     How does one function in the physical world without getting stuck in a role?   How does one function in the physical world without allowing the role one is playing to overcome one's identity as an eternal aspect of Creator/God?   One has to be genuine.   There is nothing you can "do" to be your self.   One simply allows his/herself to be the guiding light.  

Being one's self is a product of being and not of doing.   The intellect is not a part of being.   If you start doing what the mind believes to be "The Self," that becomes a role.  It loses it genuineness.  

Hidden agendas are absent.    Fear (living in the future)  is absent.   Anger (living in the past)  is absent.   Attachment to the outcome of one's actions is absent.   Protecting self from a pre-supposed enemy is absent.    

One participates in an activity out of the joy of being.   The "what's in it for me" attitude is replaced by a genuine interest in the well-being of everything and everybody.   

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Downloads:      Ego       Self         Who am I        Victim Consciousness    How do I know when I'm lying to myself?    See the words, phrases, or sentences that are underlined in the text above.    

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