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Self love is crucial to developing your talents, part 1

Devoting time and energy to a talent or an idea is an indicator that self love is present.

Developing your talents is crucial to discovering, experiencing and revealing who you really are.

If you are not doing this, then huge regions of your being go unexplored and your sense of self is not what it could be.

You may have created a safe, small world for yourself, where you are in control and things are comfortable.

Or you may have done the opposite. You may have created a world filled with stress, frustration, a job you hate or a relationship that keeps you on edge.

Either way you’ve blocked out your talents. A huge part of you is simply not present.

Because it doesn’t fit in the world you’ve created.

You’ve constructed or become trapped in a world where essential elements of your being are simply not welcome.

But you’re not really trapped. There’s a way out.

Or in, if you like.

It just feels a little dangerous.

Become your own frame of reference: relationship with pain part 2

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Turns out pain is a necessary aspect of life.

Who knew?

At least, we can’t escape it. And trying to usually leads to more pain, or an extension of the pain we’re trying to avoid.

Trying to live without pain ends up being a huge waste of time.

In a world full of people doing the work of self actualization, I assume there would be a lot less pain. But the road to that world seems to be paved with it.

Some pain has no explanation. And for some pain there is no response except to manage it the best you can.

But most pain indicates a problem to be solved. And in solving those problems we advance.

Pain is ever present as we continue to experience and reveal more and more of ourselves. As we grow into the individual manifestations of love we are intended to be.

Unleash your full self by practicing the now, part 3

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Engaging in the now is a rigorous undertaking. It’s where all experience happens: pain and pleasure, insecurity and fear, creativity and joy.

The more time you spend in the now, the more you experience yourself as you really are.

No matter how distracted you are, nature will drag you into the now from time to time, with sudden sudden pain or joy.

By developing your sense of self, you can learn to return to the now on purpose.

You can engage in the rigors of the now willingly, more frequently, until residing in the now comes to characterize your experience.

It takes practice and it takes work.

But you can become at home in the now.

And doing that has a huge positive impact on your life.