(beingthere4) Skills of seeking
Part 4: The Skill of Seeking
by
Stephen BE
Seeking is a skill. It is a skill that can be continuously improved. It is a proactive skill, rather than a reactive skill. As you become more and more responsible for yourself, you learn to start seeking your truth before it is required. The continuity of your search increases. As your seeking skills increase, you seek your truth in every experience, even those experiences that belong to someone else, but due to their proximity are part of your awareness.
When first learning how to seek your truth, you learn to notice your own behaviors, become aware of your emotions, and follow the Path of Emotion*. The more you practice the skills involved in each of these steps, the easier it becomes to see your patterns. Seeking your truth requires wondering about your patterns, wondering if these dynamics or behaviors are healthy or effective in creating what you truly want.
When you go in search of your truth, you want to avoid the futility of searching only where it is convenient to search. You sometimes must be willing to fumble around in the dark, feeling discouraged, dealing with the inevitable difficulties this presents, in order to find what it is you are looking for.
Seeking truth requires the courage to find things you may not like about yourself, like your pattern of alcohol use, your tendency to see the world in terms of black and white, your sense of entitlement, or your fear of being alone. You must look for what is, what stands up to the test of truth, not just what you want to find.
Reclaiming your childhood is necessary because you are affected every moment of every day of your life by the imprinting that occurred during that period of your life. You may have had an ideal childhood, or you may have had a horror of a childhood, or anything in-between. Regardless of the quality of your childhood, you are now the custodian of all the imprinting in your unconscious. You are responsible for all that is your unconscious, notwithstanding how it got there. If you have misperceptions, issues that have not been integrated, or ignorance about your imprints, you must learn to seek the truth of your childhood if you are to claim your Personal Truth.
Truthful seeking means you will find things that, once you can see, you will feel the need to deal with. "Dealing with it" means nothing more than making it truthful in your life. If you are committed to your truth, this is not a problem. It is only if you are ambivalent about BEing in truth, that finding things that need to be dealt with is a problem.
When you are seeking you want to find every nuance of every issue, for it is in these issues that your lessons for Higher Consciousness emerge . When you feel disharmony from issues, you go seeking. When you are with your loved ones, you are seeking. When you are in nature, you look for your lessons. When you are distracted by the demands of daily life, you seek your lessons. Always and everywhere, you are seeking.
It is a way of life.
Part 5 of "Seeking ..." will remind us that seeking can be practiced everywhere and at all times.
by
Stephen BE
Seeking is a skill. It is a skill that can be continuously improved. It is a proactive skill, rather than a reactive skill. As you become more and more responsible for yourself, you learn to start seeking your truth before it is required. The continuity of your search increases. As your seeking skills increase, you seek your truth in every experience, even those experiences that belong to someone else, but due to their proximity are part of your awareness.
When first learning how to seek your truth, you learn to notice your own behaviors, become aware of your emotions, and follow the Path of Emotion*. The more you practice the skills involved in each of these steps, the easier it becomes to see your patterns. Seeking your truth requires wondering about your patterns, wondering if these dynamics or behaviors are healthy or effective in creating what you truly want.
When you go in search of your truth, you want to avoid the futility of searching only where it is convenient to search. You sometimes must be willing to fumble around in the dark, feeling discouraged, dealing with the inevitable difficulties this presents, in order to find what it is you are looking for.
Seeking truth requires the courage to find things you may not like about yourself, like your pattern of alcohol use, your tendency to see the world in terms of black and white, your sense of entitlement, or your fear of being alone. You must look for what is, what stands up to the test of truth, not just what you want to find.
Reclaiming your childhood is necessary because you are affected every moment of every day of your life by the imprinting that occurred during that period of your life. You may have had an ideal childhood, or you may have had a horror of a childhood, or anything in-between. Regardless of the quality of your childhood, you are now the custodian of all the imprinting in your unconscious. You are responsible for all that is your unconscious, notwithstanding how it got there. If you have misperceptions, issues that have not been integrated, or ignorance about your imprints, you must learn to seek the truth of your childhood if you are to claim your Personal Truth.
Truthful seeking means you will find things that, once you can see, you will feel the need to deal with. "Dealing with it" means nothing more than making it truthful in your life. If you are committed to your truth, this is not a problem. It is only if you are ambivalent about BEing in truth, that finding things that need to be dealt with is a problem.
When you are seeking you want to find every nuance of every issue, for it is in these issues that your lessons for Higher Consciousness emerge . When you feel disharmony from issues, you go seeking. When you are with your loved ones, you are seeking. When you are in nature, you look for your lessons. When you are distracted by the demands of daily life, you seek your lessons. Always and everywhere, you are seeking.
It is a way of life.
Part 5 of "Seeking ..." will remind us that seeking can be practiced everywhere and at all times.
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