Why should I do the 'inner work'?

I'm often asked what will change in their lives, if people 'did the work' - took care of their inner world, understood the working of the subconscious mind, and connected with their authentic selves? "Will this stop all 'bad' things from happening in my life?" they ask, with 'bad' referring to all situations they find difficult to handle. In response I ask them if they ever saw the reading of an ECG machine: "When is the line straight? Isn't that when we are dead? Otherwise there is the zig-zagging line, with its ups and downs." And so it is with life. So long as we are alive there's the human experience to live through. The ups and downs of life won't stop. They'll come and go as before, like the ebb and flow of the ocean. What changes, however, is that the experience of the 'ups' deepens; we become more open to allowing joy, and other positive experiences into our lives. And, the real gift can be felt in the 'low' moments. If first we were wallowing, whining, grinding our wheels, feelig under the weather, getting into a funk, sulking, getting seriously depressed and needing anti-depressants, we now have our newly-discovered inner resources that help us pick ourselves up sooner than before. Equally important, the intensity of the 'downs' is far less.

And as we stay committed to our personal growth, we find that the picking ourselves up just keeps getting easier and easier, and we get better and better at it. And then, something wonderful starts happening. Because of the workings of the ever-present Law of Attraction, we find that our life becomes a mirror of our new positive frame of mind, getting better and better all the time, till miracles seem to keep showing up - these miracles are none other than the creations, through intention, of a happy, joyous inner self.

A demain,

Kiki ;-)
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