Seriously do you really think it’s as easy as flicking a switch to get the brain required, tear down all the conditioning and layers of crap we have accumulated? Yes, if you can deal with the onslaught of the minds resistance to change pretty quick, and no if you need time to adjust following an integration of all you have discovered about yourself.
So what then is the whole facade about the need to look happy and all sorted these days! No, we don’t have it al together. We are keeping up appearances because that my friend is what we are really good at doing. After all, we learnt to suppress and subdue our natural instincts when our caregivers controlled disciplined and contained us lest we become too much to handle running a wild! We are good at adapting and pretending. So much so that we forget we are putting a face on. We ourselves start to believe our own lies of who we are.
We contrive confabulate and corrupt.
The trend now is to openly have a bitch about how badly we have been done by life and all those we gave our power away to. We openly display our vulnerability and in fact even if we don’t have one, we create one just so we can look human, feel real and personal. Before this, we went through and a lot of us are still there, at a utopian place that says anger is bad, we cannot say we are in pain but that we embrace pain. We want to share the love, live from the heart, serve all, become do gooders, charitable and more.
Yet lurking underneath it all, is a real need within that remains ignored and mysterious because to shut off our regulators that make us feel safe is something we simply cannot and will not do. We don’t want to because it means letting the mind go. Who wants to be free of the mind? In principle most but really not many because it’s an unknown.
Are you running a facade?