“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of
oneself.”
What I really
am inquiring about is self-mastery ….
Part II:
Being the victim allows me to drop myself into not having
to be responsible for the choices I have made, which allows me to then be
righteously accusatory, blaming others for my experience, instead of looking to
see how I may have been at cause – in any way – for what is happening in any
given moment.
Being seduced by the mindset of victim is actually a position
of powerlessness. It feels “right” in that one can justify one’s “innocence”
and another’s “wrong” behavior. Yet there is no freedom here. Only a repetitive
patterning that quite frankly loses its charm as the years go by, and yet we
don’t recognize that we have created our own hamster wheel of suffering.
Check it out. Practice taking responsibility for your
experience in life, even if it doesn’t make sense, even if the other person did do something unkind, manipulative,
or dominating. There is always a place where we can identify a comment we made,
a hidden resentment we had, some attachment of how it “should” be, some choice
that led to the interaction going the way that it did. It is not a question of
being bad or wrong. It is a question of “are the choices I am making working in
giving me the experience I want?”
In listening to ourselves from that inquiry, old ways of
operating that don’t work will reveal themselves to us. If we can remove
judgment on ourselves, we can experience some freedom in terms of creating a
life experience that we want.
This is the portal to tapping into our source of power.
This is the portal to freedom from old limiting patterns. This opens the door
to the experience of self-mastery.
What would life experience be like if we lived from the
inquiry: “How can I be more masterful in creating my life experience for the
benefit of all concerned?”
It is all choice. It is all thought.
