I really don't know how any Westerner can achieve real happiness without at least thinking about the Eastern perspective,
Which is so different than ours,
But is an antidote to what plagues us,
I have found.
So you know,
In the East,
They say,
We come to Earth to evolve,
We come to increase our awareness that we have many lives.
And the goal of each life actually is to achieve self-realization,
Which is when an individual lives out the energy of their true self,
When they transcend the ego,
When they move through the fear and trauma of the ego and heal it,
Allow it to be healed,
And then live a life in the light.
They're called companions of God in Hawaii.
That was the expression or we'd say,
A self-actualized person.
But the East basically,
You know,
Would say that we're eternal souls,
That our true identity is immortal and eternal,
And that we're all powerful and all knowledgeable.
And that we,
Our souls dream up our human personalities and choose our bodies and choose,
You know,
What we look like and choose our family,
Like our parents.
And the parents are chosen to imprint us with exactly the same kind of problems that we've been experiencing in previous lives.
And the imprinting is to help get us to face it yet again,
With the hope that we will overcome it instead of circling round in it.
So I know from my own work,
My own self-discovery,
I've had several lives previous to this one,
Where I had real trouble with self-esteem.
So in this family,
In this life,
In my family,
I was the most picked on one,
Even though,
You know,
I was scoring a lot of brownie points at school,
Like,
You know,
Studied at school,
Was on teams and everything,
Didn't matter what I did.
I still would be disrespected and dishonored.
And you know,
The healing came,
As I understood that the blame did not belong on my parents or the other,
My siblings.
And it didn't belong on me personally,
That it was just the imprinting from other lives that I came here to transcend.
Yeah,
So the whole thing is,
Is quite beautiful in its way.
We just have to learn how to get down to the truth and take responsibility for our healing,
Not to have it,
You know,
On our shoulders,
But to take responsibility to allow it,
To allow ourselves to grow.
And as I've done this,
Allowed myself to grow,
I have experienced how true the Eastern view of things is.
And that has been,
You know,
My ticket to happiness,
Is to unite the sort of the Western and the Eastern way.
And it certainly has given,
The Eastern way has certainly given me perspective on our Western culture,
And just allowed me to see everything in perspective and learn how to love myself and love others.
So anyway,
May you,
You know,
Feel that you're a divine being and that you're more than you think you are,
And that over the course of your life,
You might just become this marvelous person that you were born to be.
Okay,
So it is.
Bless your hearts.