Ilchi Lee : Rules I have in my mind
April 12, 2008 by healeryoung
Most of people have certain types of rules about how they feel or what they expect from outside. For example, some people including me believe, ‘If you love me, then you never raise your voice’. Then whenever someone is talking to me with a raised voice, I feel that that person doesnot like me, then I feel unhappy about it. These rules dominate my life affecting my emotions even though they have no basics. They are just some of my information in brain or spiritual habits.
Nowadays I’m watching I have so many that kind of rules or global habits not having any basics. They can be called mind-sets.
If I’m a successful or talented person, then I should be able to do everything well.
If I fail in or say ‘No’ about what someone ask me, then the person doesnot like me any more.
If I’m a good person having a good relationship, then I never have any conflict with others.
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And whenever these rules are satisfied, I feel happy, but if not, I feel unhappy with not knowing the original cause. They control my evaluation systems unconsciously. Then they control my emotions.
The rules have been formed in our brain for many years since certain time or experience specially when we were a child.
How can we be free from these mind-sets? How can we be able to watch these things?
We need practices based on our brains. That’s one of the reasons that Ilchi lee created BEST (Brain Education System Training). We need to make our brains like Sensitized, Versatile, Refreshed, Integrated and Masterful one.
Through the training, it helps us to watch ourselves ‘What makes me feel like this, right now’, ‘What rules I have in my mind?’, ‘Is this what I really want?’…then lead you the right way you really want.
Sometimes I’m surprised when I watch myself and find some mind-sets inside of me. Then I feel I need to be aware of them over and over to be free from it. When I live following energy (Ki), when I run toward a right direction, it becomes easier to be free. This journey started when I took a special workshop called a Shimsung (which means Self Discovery Workshop).
I ask myself again. ‘When do I feel happy or excited?’, ‘What do I want?’, ‘What do I want?’,…
