The Problem With Personal Growth

Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, you are in the company of people who have no idea that their subconscious mind is creating their lives at this very moment. They have no idea that their subconscious mind controls them and, by virtue of the fact that they don’t control their own mind, that they are actually crazy.

In contrast, you, having delved into the world of personal development (if you hadn’t you wouldn’t be reading this!), have some sense that your thoughts create your life. Many books have been written about it, numerous self improvement websites tell you that you can, indeed, fashion your own life experience. And perhaps you already have achieved some results to show for your endeavours.

However, therein lies the danger. If you are aware that your thoughts create your own life, that your subconscious mind can be controlled by you and that your resultant actions, behaviours, interactions and, therefore your life, can be directed by you – you have a weighty responsibility to yourself that you must rise to moment to moment. Because, just in the same way that many books have been written on personal development, much has also been written on just how badly things can go wrong for you if you know how the game of life is played and choose, either by act or omission, not to play by the rules.

Complacency is a far more subtle enemy than worry, stress or fear. It gives us a false sense of security that permits our mind do what it does habitually – slip back into its normal state of autopilot that allows our programmed subconscious mind start to disassemble the benefits that we might have gained from being more focused, more mindful, more present.

For almost everyone in this world – normal people – it is too great a challenge to awaken from the deadly hypnosis that our programmed subconscious mind wields over us. Indeed, for the vast majority of normal people, they will die without understanding that this challenge was even to be taken on. For those of us who do rise to this challenge and succeed, the real challenge is not to awaken but to stay awake and stay focused on a continual basis. We never know when life will throw a spanner in the works – one that will set us off down another path of self-sabotage, so we must do our very best to do what little it takes every day to make certain that our minds are tuned in and that we are as fully present to the best of our ability to the only place and time where life can be lived – the here and now.