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Who Am I Really?
One of the terms we often hear when
we talk about empowerment is authenticity. What is that? What does
it mean to be authentic? At first glance I believe it means to be
genuine – to be true to yourself – to be real. But do we really know
how to do that? How do we know our True Self?
At the very least, being genuine
entails saying what we mean and meaning what we say: We are true to
our own values and beliefs and live according to the rules we deem
to be correct… for us anyway.
But what is ‘real’? Who is our true
self? Do we even think about that? Can we really KNOW who that is?
For many years I’ve done my best to
be genuine and I thought that also made me authentic, but I’ve
recently had reason to ponder what that means. The reason for my
musing is a book I’ve been reading by Esther and Gerry Hicks titled
The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your
Guide. This is one of the Teachings of Abraham books and it
provides a very different perspective about who we are.
It’s not easy to summarize what
Abraham tells us, but briefly, they explain that we not only have
our physical being, which we’re aware of with our five senses, but a
part of us that is non-physical. That’s not news for many of us
today, but it’s the way the non-physical part of us is explained
that I found of utmost interest.
More and more people are accepting
the fact that, at the very basic level, our physical self is made up
of energy – in fact, everything is energy. Again, not really
news if you’ve watched What the Bleep or similar movies. It’s
also not a far stretch to accept that we have another part of us.
That, too, is not particularly new.
The term Abraham uses for our
non-physical self is Inner Being and the way they explain it IS
new… at least to me.
We live in a dualistic world where
we are bombarded with experiences of every type. As result of these
experiences, we learn what we don’t want and, as a result, by a
process of elimination, what we DO want. Abraham calls these
‘wants’ Rockets of Desire and, as soon as we launch one, our Inner
Being responds by embracing our ‘want’ on a vibrational level.
This means that our Inner Being is
already everything that we’ve ever wanted to be and holds every
thing we’ve ever wanted to have in what Abraham calls our
Vibrational Escrow. It’s all there waiting for us to claim it,
whether it’s a ‘thing’, a circumstance, or a quality.
THAT’S
what it means to have, do,
or be anything that we desire!
This is our authentic self – the
Self that has everything and is everything we’ve ever
dreamt of having or being. All we have to do is allow it, claim it,
and it’s ours! Being our Inner Being is being authentic. Now
that’s empowerment! That's freedom!
Of course, we all have the same
challenge: How do we claim what is technically already ours.. at
least on a vibrational level?
Well, it’s a matter of aligning our
energy using our emotions as a guide. At any particular time, are we
rowing upstream against the current (when we’re feeling
negative emotions), or downstream (when we’re feeling
positive emotions)? That’s the crucial question and one that I’ll
address is another article. |
