“Be yourself, no matter what they say”
From Sting’s excellent 1980’s song: “An Englishman in New york”
‘Being yourself’ is not as obvious as it sounds.
Until you have found out who you are not,
you will not realise that, what you thought was you, is not you.
(And when you do realise what is not you,
you will find that you cannot find anything that could be called you.)
What most people call ‘themselves’ is nothing more than
automatic behaviour generated from a programmed mind.
I know I keep saying this – I have been saying it for years –
as seen in the short interview towards the end part
of this 1970’s film at the end of this post:
http://www.byronevents.net/paullowe/index.html
(No idea who posted this. Thank you.)
Over all these years I have been attempting to share that,
reality is not what we think it is, and we are not who we think we are.
So when we say ‘I am just being myself’ the statement is not fully correct.
Our actions, words, thoughts, are usually generated in our programmed mind.
The mind is a more machine than a living spontaneously responding being.
If you are happy with that, no worries,
and, we have been attempting to show that – that is not ‘you.’
Your potential is, to be an utterly free and unique phenomenon.
In Each Moment.
So, repeating.
When we say we are’ just being ourselves’ or ‘doing our thing’
we are in fact, just running a programmed story.
If what comes is from the body, mind or emotion,
that is not our unique spontaneous creative self.
And how to get that past a programmed mind? –
let me know if you find a way, and I will share it.
Happy un-selfing…