Wisdom from THE FOUR AGREEMENTS By: don Miguel Ruiz Thousands of years ago, the Toltec were known throughout southern Mexico as "women and men of knowledge." They came together as masters and students at Teotihuacan, the ancient city of pyramids outside Mexico City known as the place where "One Becomes God." Toltec knowledge arises from the same essential unity of truth as all the sacred esoteric traditions found around the world. Though it is not a religion, it honors all the spiritual masters who have taught on the earth. While it does embrace spirit, it is most accurately by the ready accessibility of happiness and love. The First Agreement BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD. Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. Through the word you manifest your intent, regardless of what language you speak. What you dream, what you feel, and what you really are will all be manifested through the word. The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. The word is pure magic; we plant a seed, a thought and it grows. Every human is a magician, and we thoughtlessly cast spells on each other all the time with our opinions. Someone gives an opinion and says, "Look, that child is ugly." The child listens, believes she is ugly, and grows up with this idea. It doesn't matter how beautiful she is; as long as she has that agreement, she will believe that she is ugly. That is the spell she is under. These types of spells are difficult to break. Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system. The only thing that can break a spell is to make a new agreement based on truth. The truth is the most important part of being impeccable with our word. Only the truth has the power to break the spell and set us free. MY TWO CENTS BY: Lyrical Genius We have to love ourselves in order to love the Most High. When you love yourself you begin to notice all the beautiful talents and beauty you were created with. If we were created in the image of the Most High, you cannot help but to love your creator. God is love, and once you overstand how to love yourself impeccably, then will you overstand how to love the Most High. Repeat to yourself, 'My inner self loves me.' Repeat this all day long and mean it. This will help build that inner relationship of love between self and your creator. When we develop self love we want to give love. You cannot love others without loving yourself. You cannot even receive love without giving love. And in order to give anything you must first posse it yourself. When you posse self-love, you are automatically loving God. Even if some of us do not want to admit. Because you are loving on his creation. It is wonderful to love our brothers and sisters as we go through life's ups and downs, but how sad it must be to always try and give love but never seem to receive love. Ask yourself, am I loving me? Many people have not learned to love themselves. That is why divorce rates are high and so many of our sisters and brothers are single. They are looking for love in all the wrong places. People are running to church looking for some answers when the answer lies in them. In our life time we search to find true love. But true love is self-love. You should be the one you cannot wait to spend time with. Yet many of us are bored to tears with ourselves and become miserable. So why would any one else want to be around with our miserable selves? In life your true love is self. Therefore your life should be centered around love. Which in turn gives you a joyous life. Even our brother Jesus (I say brother, because if he is God's son and we are all God's children, we can say he's our brother. And who does not love their brother?) said he has come that we may have life more abundantly. His whole ministry was about LOVE. Too many times people are focused on worshipping our brother, but rarely follow his teachings. Love yourself first so that you may be love and give love to others. Many people go to church to be a pew warmer but neglect to study the Bible. God is love. Once people are able to connect God and love to self then healing can begin. Remember God lives through you. You need no man or woman to connect you to a spirit that dwells within you (1 Cor 3:16, Romans 8:9). Repeat, 'My inner self loves me.' Peace 1 Corinthians 3:16King James Version (KJV) 16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Romans 8:9King James Version (KJV) 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. MY INNER SELF LOVES ME Wisdom from THE FOUR AGREEMENTS By: don Miguel Ruiz The Second Agreement DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about "me."During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, always me! Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in completely different world from the one you live in. You create an entire picture or movie in your mind, and in that picture you are the director, you are the producer, you are the main actor or actress. Everyone is only a secondary character in your movie. The way you see that movie will be according to the agreements you have made with life. If you live without fear, if you love, you will be happy with the movie you are producing. When you take things personally, you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflicts. You make something big out of something little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong. You try hard to be right by giving them your own opinions. But what you say, what you do, and the opinions you have are according to the agreements you have made-and these opinions have nothing to do with the people around you. Your point of view is something personal to you. It is no one's truth but yours. MY TWO CENTS BY: Lyrical Genius People like to be right and that is fine. We strive to live righteously. But when you try to make your right my right is where personal feelings get involved and we begin to take things personally. Making a mountain out of a mole. If we begin by excepting self-love and overstand what someone else says about us is not our truth but their truth, we can began to not take anything personally. People lie to themselves so why get upset when someone lies to you. We even lie to ourselves at times. But once you learn to love yourself you can begin to trust yourself. Many people don't trust themselves so they depend on other people to guide them. Trust yourself because the God that dwells within you has equipped you with everything that you need to survive. Peace Hebrews 13:5 King James Version (KJV) 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Hebrews 13:6 King James Version (KJV) 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Wisdom from THE FOUR AGREEMENTS By: don Miguel Ruiz The Third Agreement DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we BELIEVE they are the truth. We only see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. We don't perceive things the way they are; we literally dream things up in our imagination. Because we are afraid to ask for clarification, we make assumptions that we believe are right, then we defend our assumptions and try to make others wrong. The biggest assumption that humans make is that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don't understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are as clear as you can be. Once you hear the answer, you will not have to make assumptions because you will know the truth. DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS. By making this one agreement a habit, our lives are transformed completely. What we need comes to us easily because spirit moves freely through us. Magic happens in our lives. This is the mastery of love, the mastery of gratitude, and the mastery of life. This is the path to personal freedom. MY TWO CENTS BY: Lyrical Genius What good does assumption do when dealing with the truth? The old saying goes to assume, one makes an ass of self. Without truth and clarification of that truth, it's pure imagination. Let's take social media for instance. If a friend posts a statement that is unclear and can be viewed many ways, someone may take the statement and assume the friend is referring to them. This person then begins to feel defensive with thoughts of negative images. Assuming the whole time the friend's comment is directed towards them without asking for clarification. This could lead to destruction of a friendship due to making assumptions. That goes back to the second agreement, Don't Take Anything Personally because it can lead you to making assumptions. We have to learn how to free ourselves from these negative agreements and make new positive agreements with self. Wisdom from the Four Agreements have truly been a blessing in my life. It allows you to mentally change your thought process to free your mind of negative agreements one has made for self. In society we are condition to not ask questions and automatically feel that if someone loved us they should know how we feel or what we want. Going back to the social media example if that someone is offended by a friend's statement and makes assumptions, they will begin to believe their assumptions and feel as though they are right about their assumption to the point that they will destroy a relationship in order to defend their position. We need to allow clear communication to become impeccable with our word. This will start a positive change in many relationships.
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