Living From The Inside-Out Instead Of The Outside-In
You were brought up to believe that you must look outside
yourselves to determine your best interest, your purpose, your
work, even who you are. Parents, friends, media, scientists, and
philosophers - all have opinions they wish to share with you and
have you adopt them. If you are not sure of yourself, you can be
bounced along in the chaotic environment of what others believe
you should be, should have or should be doing. Along with this
understanding you may want to know from your intuitive self what
is natural for you.
Normal vs. Natural
Central to our model is the following idea: the only truth that
you can be sure of is the one that you intuitively know for
yourself. This we will call natural. Getting information from
outer sources is normal.
Normal is a combination of the cultural, community, and parental
ideas superimposed upon our thinking. Often these thoughts are
so ingrained that we accept them as our truth even though they
are not natural. These overlays, however, are the values and
beliefs of others that have an impact and influence on our lives.
Along with these overlays are the genetic things about you such
your gender, race, age, etc., that you cannot escape. Each of us
participates in a collective pool of beliefs. To a greater or
lesser extent, it defines who you are and how you see the world.
For example, to be in the 21st Century is a part of the
collective that will not allow you to think, act and feel like a
Martian in the 30th Century or a Roman Patriot in the 1st
Century. This collective thought stream is the evolutionary
force or trend.
When you are unconscious, that is, not making conscious choices,
you are not choosing freely. Therefore, the evolutionary forces,
the will of the masses, are of the most impact. Normal and mass
consciousness does not allow for large variations of the curve
of life. It does not permit spikes, such as passion, zeal, and
aliveness. It is designed for the largest quantitative appeal
precisely because it is necessary for the mass. Yet, mass
consciousness suffocates what is natural.
As children we accept these beliefs as being the truth. We are
especially vulnerable from the age of three to seven. During
this time accepting the beliefs of our parents or early
caretakers is necessary to be loved, to be accepted by our
family, friends and others and because we do not know any
different. As a result, we tell ourselves who or what we need to
be to fit in or to survive. This becomes normal for us.
Being Natural
In contrast to what is normal, natural is what you know from
within - what you intuitively know. Being natural is to be who
we truly are. It is innate within us. As a result, natural is
who and what we truly are.
Because you have listened for so long to the outside world and
accepted, as you were supposed to, what was normal, you have
ignored what your intuition has been saying. The more you listen
to the external world without listening inside, the less you
trust this inner power and knowing when you hear it. People who
trust their inner knowing are fulfilled people. Natural is
trusting you have within you a grand design of what is - and
that you can know it.