Understanding yourself is not a business. But a power. It is the only power we have, the main one, because if we do not make this power our own then we will never be able to do anything. Reason for which infinite human beings live in a state of complete slavery: they do not know what they do, nor how they do it, nor why they do it. Everything simply happens. Without there being a real will. And the reason why everything happens without awareness is the absence of the power to understand oneself, to perceive the mechanisms, the conditionings, the desires that drag us from one side to the other, that make us choose this instead of that, that make us live a whole life without realizing that we are living it.
If we can't touch the abiss of this power, then there can be no evolution. And it is a very serious fact. I believe that now as a human species we are getting closer to the fateful crossroads: to evolve or destroy ourselves. And there will be no other calls. Because I find it obvious how our existence navigates on the lack of awareness of our responsibilities. And without awareness it is not even worth defining it existence.
Without power the power to understand ourselves, we do not exist, but everything happens through us. To put it another way, I can propose the example of the game of billiards. We are like numbered and colored marbles that are whisked here and there, without understanding why, until we fall into a black hole and have understood nothing of what happened. Without understanding oneself, without understanding where we are and what is happening, all we can do is play a passive part waiting for the "game over".
I believe that the first fundamental step towards this "power" is to realize the inner processes (emotional-mental-instinctive) that lead us to certain choices and directions. In fact, by carefully observing ourselves and, above all, observing ourselves with honesty, we can realize many of our nuances of which we have never been aware: of things we are doing in a completely unconscious manner or, indeed, against our own will. And the tragicomic thing is that often, when we realize it, we try to deny ourselves these nuances, looking for excuses and justifications to avoid observing ourselves as we are!
Understanding oneself is a different process than knowing oneself, as it is the same as observing one's inner dynamics but above all, it is a process that leads you to UNDERSTAND what is happening and why. Otherwise there can be no understanding. It is useless to try to understand and help others if in the first place we fail to understand ourselves. It's pure madness.
Only once we become aware of the functioning of our inner processes, or when we are in the power to "understand ourselves", then and only then does our power expand considerably and further. We will therefore be able to recognize the dynamics in place, understand where they are taking us, and we will then begin to modify the path, the outcome and the goals. This is the power I am talking about. And it is the power that all "spiritual seekers", and others, are looking for. That of changing the reality that surrounds us.
But any power cannot be defined as such if easily obtainable. Understanding yourself is a long, difficult path, full of pitfalls and extremely challenging, because you are deprived of any alibi. It will no longer be enough to affirm and exclaim "What do you want to do with it, I am like that!" Or "Things went like this". In other words, those who want this power cannot, at the same time, avoid taking on their responsibilities.
Moreover, it is a physiological passage, it is visible in nature, including the human one, where the passage from the condition of children, therefore without responsibility, who spend their lives blaming others ("it was you!"), The conditions unfavorable and so on, to the condition of adults, who can decide what to be, how to be; building the world in which they live.
And instead: it happens that adults prefer to remain "children", for convenience, giving up the challenging path of growth and above all, renouncing forever the power to understand themselves. They prefer not to understand, remain children and continue to judge and blame others, of what they do, of how they do it and of why they do it. Isn't that what happens every day? People who only try to control others when, in fact, they don't even know how to control themselves.
But paradoxically, the idea of having power over other people is not feasible. Everyone can have at his disposal a power of equal value that would cancel the imposed power. Because there is one thing that must be kept in mind: power cannot be imposed, but can only be surrendered.
written by Corina Abdulahm Negura
Thanks Trocin Vitali http://trocin.wix.com/vitali-trocin for work art
