Reflections One

In his book You’ll See It When You Believe It, Dr. Wayne Dyer offers some interesting and helpful suggestions for personal transformation.  A synopsis of these suggestions is shared here for your reflection.

• Practice thinking about yourself and others in formless ways.  Take a few moments each to evaluate yourself in terms of pure thought and feeling.  Watch yourself acting and interacting.  Do not criticize or judge, simply note how your form is behaving and how it is feeling.

• Use the observer exercise (mentioned above) with other people.  Notice how they may destroy their potential for happiness and success because they identify exclusively with their forms.

• Make an effort to go beyond your comfort zone on a regular basis.  Listen to the real you inside who is encouraging you to transcend yourself.

• Make an effort to cease labeling yourself as a means of identifying who you are as a human being.

• Begin to view your mind, your non form side, as new and miraculous.  Know that your mind is capable of transcending your form and that your body is in a larger part controlled by your mind.

• Work each day to clear yourself of the two factors that do the most to inhibit your personal transformation: negativity and judgement.

• Examine how you treat the physical or visible you.

• Allow yourself time to medicate quietly by yourself.  Meditation is a powerful tool, and it is as simple as breathing.  You should choose your own style of meditation.

• Above all else, be kind and understanding of yourself.  Be especially kind to yourself if you behave in a way you dislike.  Talk kindly to yourself.  Be patient with yourself when you find it difficult to be a “holy” person.