Emotions and personality go hand in hand. Where do emotions start/end and personality start/end though? The answer lies in understanding ‘who I am’. First we create thoughts in our mind. These create our feelings, our attitude, our language, our actions and our lifestyle.
Here we are talking about transforming our lifestyles. If I have a very stressful life how do I change it? I can change my job, my flat, take up a new sport etc… doing all of these things though is like pruning the leaves of a tree. Does the problem get solved? Does trying to change our lifestyle by changing our surroundings work?
If we want to truly change our life we have to go within. We are generally unbalanced; our mind (and emotions) tell us one thing, our intellect another, our heart something else and our body something else again. How do we create harmony? We need to go back to: Who am I?
We tend to give ourselves a very physical identity. How about our metaphysical identity? Metaphysics teaches us that everything we seek is to be found inside ourselves, not outside of ourselves. Yet we look, yearn, crave, call and seek for answers and fulfilment outside of ourselves. We think that the grass is greener on the other side not seeing or appreciating what we already have.
The understanding that I am a being of light and of energy and that I have 3 faculties: mind (feelings), intellect (values) and tendencies (personality). Then there are the different levels of the mind: conscious; subconscious (thoughts running underneath); unconscious and super-conscious (the part of us with all our strengths and powers).
Once there was a lady who had lost her keys. She searched for them under the street light and other people seeing her came to help. Then someone asked her, ‘Do you remember at all where you might have been standing when you dropped them?’ She replied, ‘Oh I lost them inside my house here but there is no light in there so I am looking for them out here as there is some light.’ This is what we are all doing now, internally we have lost our peace of mind, happiness, courage etc. but instead of looking for them inside we are looking for them outside.
To find them again, let go of the ‘externals’ and go with and connect to your super-conscious mind. You have to let go first though to touch your super-conscious mind.
The personality of genius is one which can transform even the worst situations and negative emotions into positive ones.
