The Enemy Within And Personal Growth
Regardless of where you are or what you’re doing, you’re surrounded by people who have no idea that their subconscious mind is creating their lives as we speak. They have no idea that their subconscious mind controls them and, as a result, they are out of control, they are actually crazy.
However, you, having delved into the world of personal development (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this!), have some idea that your thoughts create your life. Countless books have been written on it, numerous self improvement websites proclaim that you can, indeed, greatly influence your own life experience. And perhaps you already have achieved some results to show for your endeavours.
But that’s when it can become dangerous. If you do know that your thoughts create your own life, that your subconscious mind can be brought under your own control and that your resultant actions, behaviours, interactions and, therefore your life, can be directed by you – you have a great responsibility to yourself that you must rise to moment to moment. Because, just in the same way that many books have been written on personal development, much has also been written on just how badly things can go wrong for you if you know how the game of life is played and choose, either by act or omission, not to play according to the rules.
Complacency is a far more subtle enemy than worry, stress or fear. It lulls us into a false sense of security that enables our mind do what it does best – slip back into the default normal state of mindlessness that allows our programmed subconscious mind start to disassemble the benefits that we might have gained from being more mindful, more focused, more present.
For the vast majority of people in this world – normal people – it is too great a challenge to snap out of the deadly hypnosis that our programmed subconscious mind wields over us. Indeed, for the vast majority of normal people, they will die without understanding that this challenge was even to be taken on. For those of us who do take on this challenge and succeed, the real challenge is not to awaken but to stay awake, stay alert, stay tuned in, stay focused on a continual basis. We never know when the thief that comes in the night will confront us to set us off down another path of self-destruction, so we must do our very best to do what little it takes each day to make certain that our minds are attentive and that we are as fully present to the best of our ability to the only place and time where life can be lived – the present moment.
