Do you ever get the feeling that you are living someone else’s life? Do you ever stop to think that the things you may be doing or thinking are actually someone else’s ideas of how you should be living your life? The feeling may come like a thunderbolt or you might wake up one morning wondering how on earth you got there.
Much of the time when we are growing up, we automatically follow the instructions of the people around us, parents, family, teachers etc. and most of those instructions are on health and safety, keeping order and helping with the smooth running of things. However, as adults, we often end up down a path we don’t want to be because of following others advice. This may be the result of parent’s unfulfilled dreams or a belief about how they think life actually is. As a result, for many of us, life is fuelled by a striking force to survive, which creates a ‘lack’ and ‘struggle’ mentality. And so it goes from generation from generation until someone down the line stops and says, “What happened?”
Even though the view has been outdated scientifically, for a long, long time, many people still view themselves as a separate entity in a dog eat dog world and in order to survive, they must accumulate as many ‘things’ as possible, such as the ego drives. But we end up in this position because society dictates that this is the way to be and we end up being in situations we don’t want to be in, working for things we don’t need. Yet all through your life, you may have little niggles that something is not right for you, niggles that urge you to be still, find some peace and take strength from that part of you that knows exactly the correct path you should be following.
Those niggles should never be ignored because, in fact, you know and you have known all along the path you should be following. You know because inside it makes you feel joyful and blissful. Those niggles are trying to remind you of that. The more you listen and begin to live your life, not someone else’s, the more you begin to feel that you are being gently carried along downstream instead of feeling like you are paddling against river rapids.