The Musings of Geoffrey Rose, Ph.D.
An Excerpt From
“When You Reach the End of Your Rope, Let Go!”
The road back to your actual, happy, healthy “Self” — the individual, idiosyncratic you that still longs to be recognized, welcomed, and celebrated — is a journey that should be far more adventurous than arduous. As ironic as it may seem and as far away from your goal as you may now feel, you have never left the “place” you seek. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, your “somewhere over the rainbow place” has been in your backyard all along.
What may seem even more fantastic than the analogy this powerful metaphysical children’s story provides, is the realization that this “over the rainbow place” actually lies within you, that it is, in fact, you.
The “road” home to yourself only seems to wander endlessly hither and yon as you stagger side-to-side, lost within your beliefs and emotions. One reason you probably “misplaced” yourself was because your parents wielded enormous influence over you — their collective voice drowning out the sound of your own. That is natural.
But if you consciously or subconsciously continue to buy into your parent-driven self-limiting concepts or create new beliefs through an unconscious filtering of that which does not fit your old established status quo “reality,” you are doomed to suffer prejudicial and predictable results endlessly.
This dislocation from yourself — leading to disorientation, the acceptance of blame, and the abandonment of your worth — is the beginning of the end of any hope that you may ever have had for personal happiness. Your parents, indeed, would have seemed all great and powerful to your young, inexperienced eyes, ears, and heart (much like the Wizard himself). So why don’t you chalk the whole thing up to an honest mistake and get on with the business of self-reparation?
Fortunately, the experience you seek already exists deep within you, whispering to your every sense. Haven and heaven, it hides, as Deepak Chopra, M.D. likes to say, in the silence between your thoughts.
This energetic “place” is the land of make-believe, where only those who consciously create their reality may enter. It is the world of “Om,” the sound used in contemplating the ultimate Truth through meditation. It would be best if you were very still, though it is within and around you every moment—entrance to this enchanting kingdom, or queendom, must await your turning the esoteric keys of self-recognition, self-acceptance, and self-transcendence.
You have the power to affect enormous change in your world, to wield far more significant influence over your destiny than any other person who has ever lived (parent, wizard, or otherwise). Your potential is immense, but your power is only yours if you accept it. Now is the time to wake up and take advantage of your substantial, albeit conditional, gifts.
More Musings
Forgotten emotion is the mortar that holds your inner “wall” together—the energetic stuff of your “I can’t,” “I’m not good enough,” and “What’s the use.” When you remember forgotten emotion and express it, your wall drops away, and you are fully free to be.
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Luckily, understanding is not a prerequisite for magnificence. The sequoia does not have to know what it is, where it came from, or where it is going in order to live two thousand years and reach hundreds of feet into the air. It achieves this through an unbridled experience of itself.
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Thought Farming 101: We harvest what we plant with our thought, attitude, and intention.
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Our potential is immense, but our power is only ours . . . if we accept it.
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Imagination is the well from which all creation drinks; life, an ever-changing tapestry, a work-in-progress on the frontiers of fantasy.
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If we suffer, we lack something other than knowledge; we simply fail to appreciate who we actually are.
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Letting go requires courage and wisdom . . .
Courage to transcend your fears,
Wisdom to transcend your beliefs.
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You cannot become more of something that you wholly already are. You can only remember, by releasing that which you never were in the first place.
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Reality is just the mean sum of our beliefs.
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When we cease our outward search and turn within, we begin to see how it is that we are in active partnership with the Universe.
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A shift to “How does it feel to be me?”—a fluid and moving perspective—as opposed to “Who am I?”—a static view—could, in and of itself, radically change your life, yielding both immediate and long-term benefit. For you are a human being. You are a verb—not a noun.
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Separateness is a fable told to the heart by a frightened ego.
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These moments of Oneness . . . I want to string them together side by side into a necklace of perpetual Now . . . and know that I can, from this moment on, trust in life and my ability to successfully meet whatever challenge it offers up next.