Have you ever felt things in your life were not quite right?  Have you ever wanted to change something but did not know how?  Have you ever decided ‘enough is enough’ and willed the power to make the changes you need to make, but it just didn’t work out?

There is a shift happening right now and you are not alone.
Now is the time to claim back your power and change your life where it counts.  The question is: Are you ready to accept responsibility for your own life?

I imagine you are ready, and this is why you have manifested this article today. So, what is the most effective way to change your destiny and the details of your life? Personal transformation is a deep and profound science of consciousness that has captivated the minds of great philosophers and sages throughout time, but it is not reserved only for them. The secrets of conscious reality creation can be learned and mastered by anyone who is willing to realize their own power, change things where they matter most and stop wasting their time on distractions.

The truth is this: you are already a creator. You already have manifested the world you perceive around you now. As consciousness, you are a creator of vibrations, thoughts, feelings, images, attitudes, beliefs, ideas and perceptions. Look around you…that is YOUR creation – that is your personal world and no one else will ever experience your world.

Your world is NOT a coincidence or an accidental happening that you are victim of!

It is your own personal creation based upon your level of consciousness and, more specifically, the prevailing thoughts, feelings, attitudes you hold within you throughout the day.

The manifested world, your life, is a perfect reflection of your values, whether conditioned or innate. What are your values? Your values are simply what you value – what you consider important, precious and hold dear to your heart. Some value money, some value time, some value being in charge, some value being free of responsibility. What are your values?

Looking around my own life right now, I see direct evidence of how what I value within me has manifested in the ‘outside world’. Firstly, my eyes are drawn to a brand new top-of-the-line macbook pro laptop which arrived yesterday and I am using it to write this now. This computer signifies my love of quality technology and not settling for less than the best when it comes to the tools I use. Next, I notice the time. It’s dark, it’s early in the morning and I have spent the early hours when most people are asleep mediating and writing – a reflection of my sincere love of silence, contemplation, the experience of Divine peace and Grace. For me, waking early is a sign that I value the linage of yogis who would always awaken for this special time to meditate and enjoy ‘amrit vela’ – the early morning hours of nectar. I deeply value this time and, therefore, adjust my life so I am able to waken at this hour fresh and alert.

And where am I physically? The world I see is like a fairy garden, a beautiful flower-filled place with views of mountains and the ocean. I am living in Kauai, considered the Garden Island of the Hawaiian islands and known as the most spiritual island in Hawaii, the crown chakra of Hawaii. So, what does it mean that I live on this island, in the most beautiful and lush part of the island? It is a sign of my love of nature, of purity and beauty. For someone else it signify that they have made enough money to retire in Hawaii as each one’s reality is their own and for others here, they may have been born here and yet do not actually ‘see’ the beauty, being to preoccupied with other interests and desires for travel.

Remember, the world is only based on perception, so no two people can ‘see’ the same thing. Even in adverse poverty, a sage may perceive beauty and wonder from an inner state of freedom and peace, where as someone who was born and raised in Hawaii may experience a life of depression and complaints, despite being confronted with beauty every day.

Look around you and see your own creations. Your own list of manifestations could go on and on to include all details of life, food, relationships, cash flow, clothes, health etc.

All of these are direct mirrors of the beliefs and attitudes based upon our prevailing level of consciousness. Nothing is random or just lingering unawares. Every aspect is significant and considered.

So, what does this mean for you as a creator of your own life?

It means it’s time to FULLY accept your own power! Claim back your life and don’t play a victim any more! You are the only one to blame for everything that is happening and has happened. Release complaints and victim consciousness and become fully present with your own creations.

If you are ready to make real shifts in your life then focus upon examining your beliefs and attitudes. What do you believe about yourself and your life? Study your creation and see what you can learn about yourself and where you need to change. Realize your own power, and from that state of strength you will begin to see the changes occur as a result.

We have to realize deeply that everything manifested today was first created with the stuff that dreams are made of, subtle energy in the form of ideas, feelings, visions, attitudes. All of this is as real if not more real than the shadow it casts.

Practical things to do now if you are ready to change:
Focus upon the reality, not it’s shadow. Change the form of that invisible world and you will see magic. Your life is in your hands alone, so know who you are and what you need to do. Release the idea that anyone except you is in control of our life and enjoy yourself as the artist and creator of your destiny.

Spend the last 5 minutes of the day and the first 10 minutes of the day visualizing and experiencing what you actually want. Do this for FUN. Do it for the joy of it without expectation and make sure you FEEL fulfilled and happy. Experience details, colors, scents, textures and sounds. Make it as real as you can and enjoy yourself.

Do this every day and you will see wonders happen – but remember to continue to do it, and do it for fun. The reason it does not work is because people have high expectations of the outcome and then give up before it manifests.

Don’t give up and lose hope. Do it for fun, for the sheer joy of it, as you have fond memories and daydreams, and you will witness transformations. You are the world you see, so choose to see the world in a way that brings you joy.

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However, I don’t want to bore you with yet another theoretical discourse on the ego – but rather take this subject head on as an experiential reality. Those on a conscious spiritual journey will inevitably take up this topic again and again and shed more light on this fascinating, profound and cunning illusion that constantly effects our lives and even our dreams.

Firstly, we need to clarify what is meant by ‘the ego,’ as there are innumerable interpretations of this word in different traditions. The definition of the ego being used for the purpose of this article is as follows: The ego is a mechanism that creates ‘personal identification with anything limited or external.’

What this definition means practically, is that, when we consider our sense of ‘Self’ or ‘Me’ as anything whatsoever to do with what we can see, feel, sense, hear etc. (including people, places, possessions or even ideas), then we are acting/operating from the point of view of the ego. The ego limits our experience of ourselves as unlimited beings, pure consciousness, into an experience of the false self, the limited ‘i’ (the little ‘i’). Its job is to make us very short sighted. It turns us into children who can’t see beyond limited pleasures of now into the future. Little children do not understand the length of an hour, the ego does not understand eternity.

If our sense of ‘I’ or ‘Me’ is based on anything limited and temporary, then we are in the grasp of the ego, the false self, the limited self, the non-self illusion. The basic and undeniable fact is the body you perceive to have now as you read, and all that is associated with it, will die and end one day. This is a fact of life.

The ego does not like us to think of this. It prefers we think we will always be young, that we will always have a certain job or status and does not accept the fact that there is an end to all that it is based upon. It is like a cancer that relies on the host to exist and grow, then destroys the host and, ironically, dies itself.

The ego is a mechanism that condenses the experience of an eternal, unlimited being that is innately free and boundless, into the personified experience of ‘i’ or ‘me’ as a set of limitations such as: ‘I am so and so, I live in Hawaii, I like oranges, I am a mediator, I am good at x, I don’t like y, This is ‘my’ work, ‘my’ ideas, ‘my’ blog, these are my clothes, my wife, my children, I had various problems as a child, I went to this school, etc. etc. etc… Every one of these statements is a statement from the ego. The ‘Real You’ is unlimited and cannot be defined by such things in space and time. The Self is eternal. How can the Self ever be any of the limited experiences that come and go like clouds in the eternal sky?

The witness of life’s events is not the events or the sum total of the events. The real Self is eternally stable and outlasts all events and changes – it goes on after the death of the body. Nothing can destroy the true Self.  Like the screen that a movie is played on does not get burnt when there is an image of fire, nor does it get wet when an ocean is projected, in the same way, the witness, the constant Self, is separate from the projections of light and exists aside from all the day to day experiences of the character on the screen, the limited self, the experience.

When someone addresses You as a person, bodily image or a human being on the screen, they are not addressing You* (the eternal being of light, who is far more than the sum of the bits and pieces of the person), they are addressing a character in a play, the limited, non-self. The ego is the mechanism that claims what is essentially ‘just happening’ as ‘me’. It says ‘I did it, this is MINE, I am this’, like claiming a cloud to be ‘mine’ just because you have been watching it move across the skyline for a while. In Reality, everything simply happens.

Lets test this.

If you were to be fully aware of the clear distinction between the One who is eternally you (the Presence, the Spirit)  and the body/ego/’i', then you would never take offense at anything anyone said, nor would you be upset by ‘failure’, or excited by ‘success’. It is all just happening on the screen of consciousness and You remain eternally the same. Nothing is lost nor gained. Everything is perfect just as it is.

From a truly spiritual point of view, as an eternal being, everything that happens is seen as an entertainment, as no more than a cartoon show. From this state of freedom and non-attachment, you are living in Grace, in the lap of the Divine, you are seeing life as it really is… a divine play. Not good, not bad, it just is.

Ask yourself: How often do I have this experience? How often do I experience the Divine Flow, the Eternal Presence or Pure Grace? In this state, you feel that everything is happening by its own hand, where there is a clearly visible perfection that runs through everything, effortlessly and permanently…you are relaxed, you can let go and allow, you are an instrument, you need nothing and have attained everything. This state is to be free of the ego.

Everything else is tainted by the limitations of the ego. To feel ‘I am doing this’, ‘Why is this happening?’, ‘This is my duty, this is my thing’, ‘I own this,’ etc. -  all of this is the ego. It is the limited sense of self trying to take charge of life and pretending to exist as a temporary hologram – and nothing more. Things are happening and will continue to happen regardless of your claim that ‘I did it’.

Stop for a moment now.

Notice that your experience is constant. Try and see if you can stop doing anything. If you are really the one who is doing it, then you will also be able to stop doing it.

Try for yourself right now. Try to stop your doing, your thinking. If you are really the creator, then you will be able to stop your creation now at will…

Do you notice something inside of you is at work, planning, seeing, thinking…? That is the ego at work… It is on a mission to get things, to achieve, to feed itself. The one who watches silently is who you are. The stronger you identify with That, the more free you will be.

Know the ego by its incessant drive to get something ‘better’ in the never present future at the expense of the experience of the Now. Only Now can you experience who you are. Only Now in this moment can you open up to the Grace of God. Only Now can you be free.

To understand this more, here are some famous passages from the Ribhu Gita, taught by Sri Ramana Maharishi. Read them slowly and with enjoyment…

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We may begin by using the mind to convince ourselves that we are peaceful and have ‘positive thoughts’ or affirmations. This does have some effect but is often tedious and is inherently limited. The mind, in general, is the product of the ego. Thoughts emerge from an original ‘I thought’ or, in other words, ‘I am so and so, I am a limited being, I live in…, I am a teacher…’ etc. This is the backdrop consciousness from which all thoughts arise.

To have positive thoughts about this ‘limited (false) self’ to empty affirmations ’I am happy,’ ‘I am peace,’ etc. is utterly fruitless as long as the ‘I’, the inner self image, is based on identification with the body or anything limited, external and perishable. There is no real power until this false assumption that I am a body/person is transcended.

A person, a character in a play, cannot be an Ocean of Peace, unlimited consciousness or the embodiment of endless bliss, complete and perfect, free of all karmic bandages, eternal and constantly Divine.

The sense of ‘I am a human being’ traps us in a glass box where the ceiling is based on the limitations of human beings.

We are NOT limited human beings. We are eternal spiritual beings having an experience that includes the awareness of a human being. It includes the body, the role, but the one who is consciousness, from which the body arises, is beyond all limitations of the person perceived.

We simply need to drop this ‘human’ identity and allow the vastness of eternity to reveal itself in all its power. This is not something a human being can attain.  It is what already exists eternally regardless of any external situations. It is not the ego mind thinking positive thoughts that brings this into existence. It is the nature of the eternal self.

Nothing need be done to make this happen. It is more a matter of moving the attention of the self away from the limiting lie that ‘I am a person’ to the underlying reality that the consciousness that I AM is eternal bliss already, constantly, eternally and is here now. That is as permanent and omnipresent as my true identity. Nothing except that remains throughout eternity. There is nothing to do – just release yourself from the one who is trying to meditate and open to what exists beyond the thoughts, beyond the constant shifting events of life. Life will happen by itself,  so relax, let go and experience the full depth that is eternally present as yourself.

The true you has never done anything wrong and is constantly an embodiment of pure love.