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Do you ever feel tense or anxious? Do you worry? Do you suffer from your nerves? Do you get easily annoyed? Do you get stressed out? If you believe yourself to be suffering from any of these afflictions, then you’re letting your mind play tricks on you. The inner you cannot be nervous, anxious, stressed or uncertain. The real you is incapable of suffering from stress or worry. All these issues are symptoms of your personality – when you feel that you’re suffering from them, it’s only your personality trying to trip you up.

You’ve got to understand that your personality – from the Latin persona, which means mask – is simply a mask that not only conceals the real you from everybody else, it has you completely fooled into believing that it is, in fact, who you are. However, psychology explains that your personality is an ‘album’ of snapshots of people and events that impressed you during your childhood – what we normally call our formative years. You took snapshots of these things because they were important enough to make you feel good or bad about yourself at the time. Unfortunately, psychology also confirms that the normal person is much more disposed to dwell on the negative rather than the positive photos.

And your subconscious mind is still obsessed with those snapshots and this obsession is what gives life to your personality. In other words, your personality is simply not real – it might have got you to where you are and you may really like it – but be careful you don’t fall in love with an illusion.

To rid yourself of the afflictions from which only your illusory personality can suffer – worry, stress, anxiety, doubt, fear, loneliness – you need to go beyond that personality, your perceived strengths and weaknesses. You need to go in search of the real you because not only does it not know worry, stress, doubt, not only is the inner you fearless, the real you is able to achieve effortless success and happiness. The great thing is that you won’t need to look to hard to find the real you – it is waiting to be uncovered. You’ll find the real you in the peace of a reflective moment, in the experience of one of those perfect “natural high” moments that we experience at some point in our lives – where peace and contentment reign.

However, you don’t want or need to wait for the next peak moment to get over the illusions of worry, stress and all the rest. You can do that right now by doing some meditation. When you meditate you can begin to appreciate that stress, tension and fear are simply poisonous thoughts and that a clear and focused mind (the real you) simply will not have anything to do with that kind of nonsense – it has far more pressing work to do.

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