How to discover inner satisfaction by forgetting who we are, respectively, by letting go of what we think of ourselves
All of us have inner guidance, a “stranger” who lives authentic, natural, and knows it better. We have to trust the process and give them space.
Each of us believes that we know ourselves ultimately. We think we know our strengths and weaknesses. But what if what we call “I” is only a tiny part of who we are. Inside each of us, there is a stranger. Perhaps the idea of having unknown characters frightens us, but it should encourage us. This should reassure us because this inner guidance that we should not disturb is genuine resource equipment for achieving inner satisfaction that everyone has within them. But to get hold of it, we must believe that our ego is only an incomplete and restricted image of who we are.
We are much more than we think we are. First of all, we need a shift of mindset regarding our past, origins and experience that we have gone through. Yes, they are essential, but they are not everything. We are not just that; we are much more.
The first step towards inner peace is to mind our language and eliminate self-definitions when we talk, like “I am a quiet person”; “I am impatient”, “Laziness is not for me”… We have to accept that to be complete, we have both sides inside us the patient and the impatient, the shy and the extroverted.
Try this exercise whenever you feel trapped and don’t know which way to go:
- Leave your identity card, money, handbag, everything that gives you security at home and go out for a walk.
- Walk along a road you don’t know, even imagine that you are someone else. You will discover that you will slowly feel lighter.
- Never forget, a part of you is uncontaminated and free from your beliefs and convictions.
And it’s precisely this inner stranger that can make you experience things in a completely different way.
Now you might ask and what is the benefit of forgetting oneself?
Forgetting yourself means opening up to everything that does not agree with the image we have built up of ourselves or that we have been saddled with. In this way, we will discover unknown directions and open up to experiences that we had wrongly banned from our present life.
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