Right now, you’re delivering a message to yourself and to everyone around you. You’re always delivering messages, and you’re always receiving messages from one mind to another mind. But the most important messages are the ones you deliver to yourself. What are those messages? The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life. The way to measure the impeccability of your word is to ask yourself: Am I happy or am I suffering? If you’re suffering, it’s because you’re telling yourself a story that isn’t true, but you believe it.
When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
Is it really true that you are too heavy or too thin? Is it really true that you are not beautiful? If you’re telling yourself: “I’m fat. I’m ugly. I’m old. I’m not good enough. I’ll never make it,” then be skeptical. Don’t believe yourself, because none of these messages come from truth, from life. These messages are distorted; they’re nothing but lies. The truth is, there are no ugly people. There’s no universal book of law where any of these judgments are true. Every judgment is just an opinion—it’s just a point of view—and that point of view wasn’t there when you were born.
Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it. You learned the opinions from Mom, Dad, siblings and society. They sent all those images of how a body should look; they expressed all those opinions about the way you are, the way you are not, the way you should be. They delivered a message, and you agreed with that message. And now you think so many things about what you are, but are they READ MORE
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This reminds me of a line from one of my husband’s songs — “I don’t know if we’re growing or we’re ending. It all depends upon the messages we’re sending.”
Thanks for the blog and books.
Hi Don,
You’re right on target! At times when you grasp this it sound so mysterious. However, when you really experience it you believe indeed there is the Superpower and energy beyond ourselves.
Thanks again for your insightful articles.
Such a beautiful article, Don Miguel! The way you write always amaze me, beig so simple and going straight for our hearts. Unfortunately, people lie because they are afraid of being hurt. When you feel truth and realize about the mitote everybody is living in, you become indestructible. Lies turn from arrows to flowers.
Love and light,
Richard
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Don Miguel,
when you wrote ‘The way to measure the impeccability of your word is to ask yourself: Am I happy or am I suffering? If you’re suffering, it’s because you’re telling yourself a story that isn’t true, but you believe it.’ it hit me between the eyes. So simple the truth is and so simple a measure to test am I pointed in the direction of truth?
I remind myself whenever I can that only Love exists everything else is an illusion, truth has no shades of grey. So whenever I speak with the Beloved around me I remind myself whatever is been said that behind it always is Love. This reminds me that behind everything in my mind there is only Love.
Thank you for your words of Truth.
with Love and repect, Jason.
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