SELF-MASTERY

There are people who set their goals so low, that they are aiming for the very failure they are fearing. These are people who “know themselves” so well that they expect failure. They never risk, because their life experience has told them that they will fail before they even try. The world somehow is against them. These people do not know themselves. If they knew their true selves, they would know a genius, someone born to succeed. So what these people know instead, is a lie that they have come to believe as truth.

The path of self mastery is the path of exposing these lies, and at the same time, discovering the Truth about ourselves. The Truth is that we are perfect and only believe that we are not. The Truth is that there are no failures, only opportunities. The Truth is that we WILL accomplish anything we believe we can. If we believe we will accomplish failure, we do. If we believe that we will accomplish success, we will.

                                             “Self-mastery is the path of choices.”

We choose what to believe. We choose to persist at a worthy goal. We choose to set the worthy goal. There is no more worthy goal than Self-Mastery. This goal is made up of three parts:

• 1. Understanding and taking joy in believing that each of us has a unique gift to offer the world and that we are able to present that gift when we are our truly authentic selves.
• 2. Discovering (which is really remembering) what that truly authentic self is.
• 3. Sharing who we are with the world.

When we live believing the lies that tell us that we are not good enough, smart enough, or any other message that tells us we are undeserving, then our lives are spent trying to attain something from outside ourselves, that only we have the power to give to ourselves. We are born worthy. Being unworthy is a self-defeating belief, but not the Truth. Shedding those limiting and self-defeating beliefs is part of the journey to self-mastery, because until we do, we are not our truly authentic selves.

What would happen to your practice if you shed the lies that blind you and embraced the path to self-mastery…?

-Woody Haiken under "Growing from the Inside Out"