How Much Improvement do You Need

Many seekers have spent thousands and thousands of dollars of self improvement. Many of them do not feel improved.  How often are you incredibly attracted to that energy therapy, spirit healing, new way to make  yourself better?  

How much improvement do you need?  If results are not forthcoming, it is easy to believe there's something lacking in you. Many of us have spent years with a sneaking suspicion that there’s something wrong with us.  Some of us try hard to figure out how to change what’s wrong.  

You may have been carrying that bag around with you since you could walk.  It rarely occurs to us to notice that abusive relationships or workgroups communicate that members are never good enough and build or fortify that belief.

On top of that, even though we know to focus on what we want more of, self development can get us focusing on what is wrong instead.  This is the wrong approach.  This is a perpetual resistance machine.  

How do you know if lack of results is not you but something you need to do differently?  Or, coincidence?

What if the truth is that you are whole, perfect and complete?  What if you develop and perfect who you really are?  What if you turn away from what is less that perfect and focus on living your purpose and according to your nature.  What if you measured  your success on how much satisfaction life brings? 

This different orientation changes things radically.  Like most good practices, you have to try it for a bit to see how much it changes things.  But try seeking what is special in you; try engaging the magic within you.  You will be pleasantly surprised because there is more that is magic within than most any of us have been taught to believe.

Yes, of course you have baggage.  It could be you don’t fit in.  It could be you are imperfect.  It could be you are invisible or people leave you.  We all have this special stuff. It also helped you develop your gifts of empathy, compassion, sensitivity, lovingkindness… Notice how you have some of that luggage after years of self improvement?

Recognize your favorite baggage and then focus on what you want instead.  Worry creates things to worry about.  Focus on what you want and what will make  you love your life.   Am I suggesting you think positive thoughts?  Not really!  Don’t tell yourself positive stories about negative feelings!  Think about what you positively want instead.  Nothing new.

Engage your inner spirit.  That may be new to you.  Knowing you have an inner genius can really lift your basic mood. Recognizing that genius, and its full complement of superpowers also leads you down a different and more scening path than self improvement.   Finding out that I had a spirit within that could do miracles gave me incredible optimism, and the sense that I might indeed be whole, perfect and complete made me feel that, yes there is some sense to life.

Learning to engage the inner spirit does require a commitment and a change in mindset.  You must cultivate peace and coherence.  The superconscious will create your baggage or your desire, so learn to focus on your desire.  You must pursue a life you love, directly and let go of notions about what you should want and thoughts of what you deserve.  You must open up to your dreams and see them as callings; and know  you were put upon this planet to pursue those dreams.  

And when you do that, all the stress in the world will be fun.