On Being Yourself

"The task is to allow yourself to be you."
-Vadim Zeland

“Be — don't try to become”
-Osho

"Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one."
-Marcus Aurelius

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Being yourself sounds simple enough, I mean, how could you not be yourself? Really, you can't, but you can pretend. It seems like all of us pretend, at one time or another, to be fake, either to deceive or appease someone. We pretend to ourselves too, labeling ourselves, defining ourselves, but do we really know what we are? I know I'm still trying to figure it out.

In spirituality there is a lot of talk about Being, but rarely any talk about what that is. It's a challenging, if not impossible, thing to describe. What is our being? What does it mean to Be? Lately I've been thinking about being in terms of vibration.

In the Book of Truth the guides talk about aligning to Truth, which would be our Being in this line of thought. So the only reason we are not seeing reality clearly, is because we aren't aligned to our natural vibration. The true reality is always there for us to see, but we are distorting our view of it by overlaying other disruptive vibrations, like thought vibrations and other vibrations from what you take in throughout the day(artificial light, food, bacteria, etc.)

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In our culture we learn to think and to do, rarely do we learn what it means to be, to relax all that effort to keep things in place so we can see what's underneath it all. We are boxed in, told how to be, what to do, how to do it. There is a certain way of things, and if we don't fall in line we are punished in some form or another, so we do what we need to in order to survive in the environment, which usually means trying to be a certain way, which takes us out of our spontaneous Being.

If there's a path at all — it's emptying yourself of what you're not."
-Adyashanti

So the challenge is to find out how we are distorting our vibration, how we are fooling ourselves. It's noticing when our thoughts are owning our attention, when we are giving too much importance to things, when we are worried or anxious about things in the future, and when we are regretting and ashamed of the past. If we can drop our ideas and labels and definitions about what we are and what the rest of the world is, it seems to me that we would open ourselves up to the possibility of stumbling onto the natural vibration and rediscovering Truth.

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
-Nikola Tesla

I think the more we start viewing the world as these three things, which have infinite potential variations and also require us to observe and see rather than immediately labeling something as known, the faster we can start shifting our perception towards truth and clarity.

I find a lot of value in opening to the feeling of vibration, letting the information inherent in the vibration inform me rather than my idea of what something is. Your heart is always beating its vibration, sound is a vibration, touch is two things vibrating against one another, light is vibrating at certain wavelengths, etc, etc, etc. Why do we keep relying on our intellect and definitions instead of our feelings? What if thoughts could be perceived as feelings too?

I feel like before you can really be yourself, you need to figure out who and what you are, beyond words and labels.

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Another late night write, hopefully this helped you try looking at life in a different way. I've been pondering some books lately and this is some of what I took away from it. I feel like it's worthwhile to pay attention to how things are working, how habits, thoughts, and moods can affect the way we see the world.

Let me know what you think, and thanks for reading,

@jakeybrown