The Hidden Pitfall Of Personal Growth

Regardless of where you are or what you’re doing, you are in the company of people who haven’t a clue that their subconscious mind is creating their reality as we speak. They have no idea that their subconscious mind controls them and, as a result, they are out of control, they are actually crazy.

However, you, having delved into the world of personal development (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this!), have some feeling that your thoughts create your life. Countless books have been written about it, numerous self improvement websites explain that you can, indeed, fashion your own life experience. And perhaps you already have had some results to show for your endeavours.

However, with knowledge comes responsibility. If you are aware that your mind creates your own life, that your subconscious mind can be managed by you and that your resultant actions, behaviours, interactions and, therefore your life, can be directed by you – you have a great responsibility to yourself that you must bear moment to moment. Because, just as numerous books have been penned on personal development, much has also been written on just how badly things can go wrong for those of us who know how the game of life is played and choose, either by act or omission, not to play according to life’s rules.

Complacency is a far more subtle enemy than worry, stress or fear. It lulls us into a false sense of security that permits our mind do what it does best – slip back into the default normal state of autopilot that allows our programmed subconscious mind start to disassemble the benefits that we might have gained from being more focused, more mindful, more present.

For the vast majority of people in this world – normal people – it is a challenge too far to awaken from the deadly hypnosis that our programmed subconscious mind wields over us. Indeed, for most normal people, they will die without understanding that this challenge was even one that they could take on. For those of us who do rise to this challenge and succeed, the real challenge is not to awaken but to stay awake and stay focused on an ongoing basis. We never know when life will throw a spanner in the works – one that will set us off on another path of self-destruction, so we must do everything in our power to do what little it takes each day to ensure that our minds are focused and that we are as fully present to the best of our ability to the only place and time where life is be lived – the present moment.