Excuses Begone! Part 4 of 12: Awareness
September 29, 2009 by dr. lam
In order to understand your excuses, you must first be aware of them as being excuses. Too often, we live our lives in a semi-dazed cloud, where our excuses are not even recognized as such. At times we can forcefully recognize the excuses with clarity by focusing on what our excuses really are. And, we can also strive to achieve recognition of our excuses by becoming simply more of a self aware individual.
In fact, that is what all of these blogs are truly about, getting to the core of your authentic self, free from the shackles of self delusion, false ego, and mental trickery. By reading and implementing these blogs as part of your daily ritual, we are all on a mutual journey of enlightenment, peace, and happiness. In so doing, we shed our false self and become gradually more self aware. In that process of self awareness, we begin to recognize our excuses as being incompatible with our true self.
We can use both our conscious mind to delve into what might our excuses be in life and we can also channel our more powerful, deeply seated unconscious mind to engage in a continual exploration of those excuses, to root them out, and thereby to place them in front of us as external to us. We then can rid ourselves of these false memes and genes. Today and in the coming weeks to months, focus on your true self and where your excuses that might be staring you in the face but you can’t see might truly be nothing more than an excuse.
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I love becoming more self-aware by implementing your blogs, Dr. Lam! Thanks! Great point about becoming aware of excuses and being able to understand them, but what if they are real excuses? I mean, what if the excuse is genuine? Just thought queries here. I guess someone could choose not to allow that to rule him/her. Just thinking while I type…lol See, it’s hitting home…lol hmmm, have to contemplate this a bit. Great blog post!
there is no such thing as a good excuse. i forgot who said it but an excuse is worse than a lie. it is an opening quote in the book. when we offer an excuse it is us following the dictates of our memes, preprogrammed thoughts. we need to shed those memes at all costs. they can destroy our free thinking and stifle us from achieving happiness and peace.
That’s a very good answer, Dr. Lam, and has given me a completely new perspective. This could very well be my problem. My brain seems to tell me that it is hypothetical to think that there is no such thing as an excuse. See, I’ve gotten it severely wired as such…lol I have to truly believe it for myself to believe it. Hmm, I wonder how to overcome that.
overcome it by letting go. not forcing. it will come naturally.