Help Yourself Fight The Inner Enemy

We all have one enemy in us which drags us back. It can be in the form of anger, ego etc. The way this enemy wants us to see it, we begin to use those same events to escape its small world. We have something new to do every moment. Even taking a walk is no longer just a walk; it’s a journey of self-discovery. Whatever we do, we can consciously create new ways to watch ourselves and with each attempt become more aware of the restrictive self-created world in which we habitually mentally dwell. When we see that world as it really is, we no longer want to stand within the stream of its painful thoughts and memories.

Often it happens that people give up on their inner work because they don’t see the immediate results hoped for. Many times the negative thoughts urge you to cease your self-exploration come only from the mind of the intimate enemy. All you have to do to stay the course and to win the inner war is be willing to start over and over and over again with your self-study. Try the following tips:

1. Now is always new: Life is continuously new in the present moment, and so are you. The negative voices issued from the intimate enemy that proclaim you won’t make it come only from what has been your world up until now, and not from Life in its perpetual newness. Seeing the truth of this gives you the strength to brush away these feelings of failure and start over with self-study.

2. The power to start over is in the thread of reality itself. Volunteer to view every unhappy ending or defeat as the continually passing condition it is. What was is no more unless you allow the enemy to convince you that an echo is reality.

3. All feelings of failure include the unconscious assumption that you know all there is to know about what has you bottled up. By meeting every moment of self-defeat with the realization that there’s no end to your ability to learn about yourself. So, when seeing a failure in your mind’s eye, just remember in that moment that it is that put it there. See through the painful feeling by seeing its root as arising from within your conditioned self. 

4. Use the moment to wake up and remember that you can always start your whole life over. Then see that the inner voice calling you a loser should be the focus of still a deeper self-study, and not the self that you look at yourself from.

5. The truths we uncover through self-study gradually strip away all of our false self-conceptions, those mistaken ideas and beliefs about ourselves that have kept us in a war within the world of our own conditioned thought. Clearly, we can’t advance on the inner path if we believe our thoughts can and must determine for us where that path will take us. The beginning of the real path starts when we see there is no path where we always sought it in our own minds.