What if I told you that there's nothing about you that needs, fixing, correcting, changing, improving, enhancing, or bettering? What if I told you that you're perfect just as you are...as perfect who or what made you? I guess the question that may arise then is, to which "you" am I referring; the you looking into the mirror or the you staring back?
Curiously, the Truth about who we are and what our purpose is in being here in this life has an odd way of hiding itself in plain view; right before our eyes and if we only took the time to delve a little deeper, just beneath the surface, we'd find all that we need and more.
For instance, I like words and I see how one word can reveal or unveil things we don't always perceive at first glance, and, profound truths are often found in simple words that we use each and every day! Take for example the word Individual. Break the word individual down and you get "Indivi" as in indivisible...unable to be divided, and "dual" as in two! So, when we put that together we see that the word we use to refer to a single person actually means the two that cannot be divided! Each and everyone of us consists of two parts that cannot be divided! Once we become aware of what these two parts are that make up who or what we are...once we see how these two aspects of ourselves connect and interrelate, we can then make sense out of everything within us and around us!
The truth is, there are several words used to describe the dual nature of man, or the two aspects of ourselves, and we can look all the way back in time and see examples of humanity grappling with or expressing the comprehension of what that two-fold nature of man consists of and how it's expressed, such as spirit and flesh, divinity and nature, energy and matter, god and devil, good and evil, heavenly and earthly, conscious and unconscious, yin and yang! There are many more, but those will suffice. We must admit, there is certainly a difference between who we are in the world, or how we present ourselves to the world, or how the world perceives us, versus who we think we are, or who we know ourselves to be, or who or what we deeply sense ourselves as being! There is a difference...a big difference!
Fundamentally, there is a part of us that never slumbers and never sleeps, a part of us as individuals that is infinitely intelligent, that knows without needing an explanation, that is always awake, always aware, always alert, always busy, always working, always conscious! This part of us is infinitely creative, capable of feats that man has not yet even imagined. You sense this part of yourself, you know that such a part of you exists, you feel it! You know that it is capable of engineering the life you were born to lead, but what happens? We ignore it! We put it on the back burner, we muffle it, muzzle it, dumb it down, dope it up, cut it, mute it, strangle it, and drown it out in favor of the other part and so many people leave this earth without ever having the opportunity to experience it because they never grow in awareness enough to Accept it!
The other part of us is going to school, is learning, is adapting, is thinking, toiling, talking, acting, fronting, pretending, doting, fearing, desiring, yearning, longing, hoping, dreaming, wishing and so on. In a word, there is that other part of ourselves that is Evolving!
My point is this, we don't need to change who we are, we need to ACCEPT who we are! We don't necessarily need "self improvement," rather what we really need is self acceptance and in that self acceptance we evolve and when one is evolving...when one is a conscientious, awake, aware, alert, responsive, and responsible partner and participant in their own Evolution, it is a gross understatement to say that he or she has improved or is improving! How can you ever feel the pain and torment of neglect when you Accept who you are; ALL of who you are? How can someone or something that has improved be compared to someone or something that has evolved? What would you rather do, improve or evolve? Who would you rather receive acceptance from, someone else or from within yourself? When someone improves, it basically means that whatever has been improved is, for the moment, made more efficient for whatever the purposes are, but when someone evolves or is evolving, they are transcending! All improvements have an expiration date and is dependent upon something alien to itself to maintain the improvement, but when you have accepted and committed yourself fully to an evolutionary process then you are no longer bound to a terminating timeline and you are driven from within and that drive is anchored unto something that is eternal and ever abiding! When you accept your evolution as a process that is driven by genetics and guided by awareness NO circumstance can alter or change the gains you've made! Your accomplishments become all your own. Patience becomes a pleasure rather than a vice!
Look no longer upon yourself as someone or something the needs to be improved! Begin looking at yourself as yourself by accepting yourself and surrender to the process of your own evolution! You are not a backswing that needs tweaking, or a house that needs remodeling! Technique and repetition will fix the former and an interior decorator and a second mortgage will handle the latter. But you, dear soul, are not a backswing nor are you made of wood and stone. You are a living, breathing, thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting, learning, and most importantly Evolving life form. The higher you evolve the more light you embody! The more accepting you are of yourself the more you'll value who you are as well as who made you! You honor your origin by accepting your destiny which is to be your self in greater and greater measure!
In this world of form, EVERYTHING is constantly changing! What does not change with the changes, what neglects to accept the nature of change, eventually dies, but, what forever lives on is what is forever adapting: The only thing that continues to adapt is what is intelligent or cognitive enough to evolve! YOU, however, ARE, so to bring an end to self-destructive rejection, step into Evolution Acceptance!
