The two types of individuals I’ve just described in the previous two postings are extremes.

Most of us we are a combination of the two types.

The fact remains that we have taken this combination of reactions - built a unique “construct” which we filter our experience of life through - which we call our personality. And some of us - in order to avoid confronting those aspects of ourselves which cause our unhappiness - simply accept our personality as “who we are”…

Once and for all:

YOU ARE NOT YOUR PERSONALITY!

The real “you” is the “observer - higher self - wise mind”… That too often is pushed down and denied it’s true role in your personal hierarchy by your personality. It’s pretty simple: Your personality is in a constant state of justifying itself - rationalizing how it feels and acts. Part of that justification is denying your “higher self”.

When you have to rationalize “yourself” - which your personality spends most of it’s time doing especially after is has automatically reacted to some life situation - you are always attempting to take an arbitrary idea and create layers of reasoning as to why the “idea” is valid. Your personality is just so-many layers of justification for an assemblage of ideas you’ve collected throughout your life…

Your personality is one big “machine” that feeds itself by finding more and more reasons to point to - to prove it’s “valid”….

The real you - “observer - higher self - wise mind” has never required any rationale to exist… It’s the part of you that “just is”. What P.D. Ouspensky’s book “In Search of the Miraculous” described as the unified “I am”.

How do you consciously re-aquire your true self?

First you have to believe there is something called the true self. If you can only accept your personality as being who you really are - that’s who you will continue to be…

You need to think about this for a while before I give you some techniques that can put you back in touch with who you really are. You must first reach the realization that who you may think you are (personality) is only the temporary effect of a mind - thought algorithm…

A part of your “mind-system” you gave over control to - that runs primarily on autopilot playing a sequence of habitual reactions to day-to-day life situations - which may not at all reflect who you want to believe you are… Then spends it’s time rationalizing what it does and thinks.

If you’ve spent your life making excuses for “who you are” - it may be easier to just make another excuse to avoid discovering your true self…

Bob Baran