The Self Help Trap
It feels like I have read every book there is to read about self help, you name it I have read it, and in all of them the promise is the same, ‘this teaching, diet, understanding, book, etc has changed my life, do, believe the same as me and you can change too’!
If I will believe it and do the things that are offered I will gain enlightenment, or a slim and lithe body or a bulging bank balance.
When I have believed and done the things told me it don’t work, then it’s me, not the teaching that is at fault. I am left to wallow in my introspective mud pool, knowing for sure that as usual I f**ked it up, as I ‘always’ do.
WAKING UP TO THE FACT that I am not obliged to believe anything anyone tells me is true no matter who they are or what they say the know, is a fantastic splash in the face with cold refreshing water.
The stuff you read on this blog, the things we talk about in the Living Awake trainings are not true and we defiantly do not want you to believe them, the things you read and choose to take on board may lead to you having an experience, like balance, that helps you begin to see the amazing capacity you have for all things.
There is much for us to ‘get’ about our capacity as human ‘beings’, and I mean ‘get’ like balance, not like a friend of mine who having read a book about riding a bike thought he ‘got’ riding a bike, well, you know what happened when he took to the road don’t you?
