To Transform Your Life You Need To First Know Yourself
Understanding who you are will allow you to make choices based on your power
To know yourself is probably the most important ability you can possess. Furthermore, this gift of self-knowledge is essential in terms of navigating calmly the current turmoil.
You may already have a set of ideas to guide your way forward. However, this could easily be not who you incarnated to be! Therein lies the conundrum many face.
Only when you know who you are will you finally know where you and your unique abilities, gifts and skills fit into all of Creation. This is why it is so essential in this period of transition to know yourself and how you may help create the new Earth.
Have You Ever Wondered Who You Are?
To know thyself was so important to the ancient Greeks, it was carved above the entrance to the Oracle at Delphi. Lao Tzu expanded this as follows:
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
As we move deeper into the Age of Aquarius, “we”, not “me” will become the focus. As will realising the Creator, God, Source is within each of us, not outside. It is an age of ideas and inspiration, in which our creativity will be born of our sensory system.
Yet, how many of us have made the effort to know who we are?
Perhaps that is because we all have pre-conceived notions about who we are, which is different from our personality, let alone our ego! Whatever our expectations may be, they can hold us back from exploring our true potential and authentic desires.
Which suggests we are limiting ourselves by the internal horizon we have created, rather than the potential of all that exists!
Gaining knowledge of yourself entails learning and comprehending your thoughts, beliefs, weaknesses, strengths, and behaviours in various situations. In that sense, it is a never-ending journey.
Particularly, as knowing who you are is important because you cannot love something you do not know, or should you not know yourself?
The only way to truly know who you are is to accept and choose who you are — making this an evolving journey! For, everyone is looking for a little encouragement to move forward in their lives. No matter what stage you are at, it is the same for all of us.
Once you know who you are, you will gradually learn to accept the way you are, develop faith in yourself, forgive yourself, and know your strengths and weaknesses.
To Regain Your Power, Know Yourself
Self-knowledge can boost your self-confidence whilst reducing your self-doubt. Exploring yourself is the way to promote your personal development. Knowing yourself is not the end of your journey, rather it is the first step on your successful journey through this life.
With the focus of 2024 being self-empowerment, this enables you to regain your power and live with the freedom to be yourself. Then you will not feel you are living someone else ‘s life or in their shadow.
Nor will you feel uncertain about what you desire to do next. Understanding who you are will allow you to make choices based on your power. Enabling you to say no to when you so choose.
So, how do you come to know who you are?
Science indicates this all began 13.7 billion years ago in an instant known as the Big Bang. There is as yet no confirmation of how or why this occurred or how or why it took some 9 billion years of cosmic evolution for our solar system to take form.
What we do know is that for life to begin and maintain itself, it needs the star-forming process to come to an abrupt end. Then it took several hundred million years for life to appear and begin thriving on Earth. Homo sapiens only appeared in the last 300, 000 years.
The DNA of humans, our genome, contains 6 billion bits of information. 99.9% of that information is the same in every person. Only 0.1% varies, which is why each of us is slightly different from one another.
However, science cannot confirm how and why stardust and life came into existence. Nor has it been able to identify why humans seem to be the only species of great ape with 46 chromosomes (23 pairs).
Five Primary Reasons You Do Not Know Yourself
Though there is compelling evidence our chromosome #2 was formed by the fusion of two ape chromosomes.
How or why this occurred is another mystery. What is known is that probably less than 50,000 years ago the skin colour between Africans and Europeans evolved due to differences in their climates.
All of which means there is evidence of the cycles of human evolution, though not what initiated many of the key hows and whys!
Physically humanity continues to adapt to its environment. Mentally and emotionally is another story, yet it is this internal identity that is directing your life.
These include:
- Being very self-critical
- Lacking self-compassion
- Making decisions based on fear or a sense of obligation
- Always seeking to please others
- Feeling unsatisfied in relationships
- Being uncertain about your life´s direction
- Unable to alter challenging patterns of behaviour
- Feeling unsupported
- Your job is not fulfilling
Most if not all, of these symptoms are unconscious. An event of whatever form triggers an unconscious re-action within you. Often it needs the comments of others, or reflection to bring this to your notice. Only then will you know who you are.
Most prefer not to look into the mirror to know themselves. This is because of the beliefs they have about themselves and their opportunities.
These beliefs have five primary causes:
- Pre-conceptions
- Fear of change
- External influences
- Fear of the unknown
- Comfort zone
Resolution of each starts with you acknowledging it (the full process can be found here). Which is the prime purpose of knowing yourself!
When you do, you will:
- Be honest with yourself, acknowledging all your beliefs and values
- Know what brings fun into your life and do so
- Be an observer of life
- Know your objectives
- Live in the moment.
Message From Source
The latest Message from Source brought these insights:
“We are all now in a period of acceleration. This is going to take you to places you have yet to experience. This period is going to be one in which all will notice life is changing. Continue to be the observer rather than caught in the chaos of re-action.
What you have begun to create will be apparent very shortly, this will catch many off guard and so, allow it to accelerate even more. Continue to focus on all you desire. Being yourselves at the beginning of your process of creation.
Knowing yourself is essential to navigating what will unfold. This is neither the moment to sit on your hands nor seek to wait for events to take you forward.
From your inner power, you will be able to manifest all you desire. Only be sure it is what you desire, not that of others — however well intentioned! This is why knowing yourself is vital for not only this moment.
It will become more essential as humanity moves to the higher dimensions. So, the question becomes one of will you help lead it there, or be one of the followers?
We are noticing more choosing to step into leadership of their life, so allowing this to expand to include all of humanity. The coming two years will have moments of challenge for each of you, though that will be intense should you not know who you are.
This is far more than viewing yourself as a spiritual person having a human experience. For, all of creation is adapting, and so is your soul, as are we! The most intense period of the transition will last for no more than three years, is the current estimate. How quickly depends on whether you will accelerate your own evolution, or seek to be pulled along!”
Key Signs You Know Yourself
Since coming to know myself I have learnt what you focus on is what you create. To access your inner wisdom, will require you to remain at peace and calm — otherwise, you will never hear it!
Some key signs you know yourself are, you:
- Trust your inner voice, having faith in your decision-making ability and events that appear.
- Love yourself, warts and all! Listening to the messages your body sends you.
- Follow your dreams, they will help you aspire beyond your current horizon.
- Focus on your self-care, understanding your body needs to feel safe and cared for.
- Respect and set clear boundaries, for they are your container. Distinguishing what is you from what is not. Without boundaries, we can easily absorb other people’s feelings, ideas, fears etc.. Weak energetic boundaries lead to a lack of self-love and self-care.
Tara Brach neatly summed this up as:
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”
Followed by this reminder from Erik Erikson:
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”
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To Know Yourself
Gregory
My passion is to guide all to know and be themselves.
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