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The world offers many different ways to improve yourself. You can improve your body by making it look younger, thinner or more fit. You can improve your mind through education, reading, and sharing in others' knowledge. You can improve your lifestyle by getting a different job, earning more money or buying successively bigger homes and cars and purchasing more material goods. All of these things can make your life appear to be better on the outside. But the outside is not what is important. The focus on continuously improving yourself on the outside implies that you are not already perfect. And it ignores the fact that the outside is merely a reflection of what is happening on the inside.
You exist in perfection in every part of your life, at every moment in your life. Everything in your life is there to fulfill the purpose that you established for it. The constant drive for self improvement that exists on a material level serves as a distraction to remind you that you could be better if you were different. What is wrong with the way you are right now? Will you be happier if you are thinner more educated or drive a new car? Happiness is derived from the inner you, no matter what the outer you looks like.
You can use outside sources to change or improve your life but the mindset that created it is still there. The Self cannot be improved upon because it exists in perfection, as do you. What you can improve on is the beliefs that you have used to create your reality and focus on inner self improvement. Once you have accomplished the inner work, the results will be manifested in the outer you. Energy moves from within you to the outside world. Improving yourself on the outside to make the inside feel better is a never-ending cycle that will not lead to happiness or fulfillment.
Finding what brings you joy is the first step to self improvement. Doing what you love and are passionate about will remove the focus from what is 'wrong' with you and your life to creating what you want in your reality. Once you see yourself as perfect on the inside, the outside reality will change accordingly. And the effects will be permanent and long lasting and then you can pursue external self improvement with activities that bring you joy instead of trying to fix what is 'wrong' with you. This week, consider what you are doing to improve yourself on the outside. What could you be doing on the inside to make that happen more easily? Remember that you are already perfect exactly as you are and your goal is to bring heaven with its joy, peace and unconditional love into your life. Do that on the inside and it will manifest on the outside. |
