Is Self Improvement the greatest deception ever invented by humankind?

For the love of life...

We are experiencing an unprecedented focus on self improvement, self love, self care and so forth. It is important not to judge whether these activities are "good" or "bad", but to be aware of what they are doing! So I’d like to question the reason/s why we are promoting so many “self” activities at a time when we need to think about the wellbeing of the entire world. We have so many entities of it:

• Self Compassion

• Self Improvement

• Self Management

• Self Awareness

• Self Love

• Self Care

• …

We seem to be educated out of love from the moment we have values, structure, beliefs, education, right and wrong pushed onto us as young children. Look around you and you will notice that all the conflict you experience - whether mental stress, financial stress, career stress - is your consciousness knocking on the door to remind you that none of that has anything to do with what you are. It's a direct sign that you've been trained to ignore - can you be aware of it? If you listen carefully, you will realize it's your heart knocking!

The focus on self-centered activities - the chase for success, money, happiness, individuality, love, position, power, manifestation, finding purpose - all are self-centered activities which are strengthening an illusionary entity that has you believing it is the most important thing in the world.

Many people talk about duality in this world. We have violence so we go and chase non-violence. We have duality so we go and chase non-duality. This very fact - if you just noticed - is duality! The "chasing" of something is none other than your illusionary ego-self constantly moving you to something "better", "more", "greater", "beyond" and getting you to run away from the fact as it is - all activities of the self. Most meditation, yoga, self-improvement activities are activities to strengthen the self. And you can use the self to focus on all of the so-called "positive" things in your life, which are nothing more than self-centered activities, then along with that comes greed, anxiety, depression, dependence, and all of the ugly facets of self-improvement.

Please this is your life and it would be nothing short of wonderful to see everyone flowing from a place of peace, joy, harmony. This is the real human you come into the world as - not to live a life in limitations, structure, rules, constant conflict, burnout, despair.... uh the list goes on.

If you would like to me give a talk about any of this (in person, zoom, podcasts, etc), please feel free to reach out to me. If you are not sure, perhaps for just once, notice the resistance - this is always a sign of "a blocker at work".

I’ll take us through three things:

1. Self Awareness

2. Awareness of Self

3. If it’s possible to end the self

Love and light to you all my friends,
GC