November Exercises Continued

Concept 2: Nurture the Ability to Percieve the Truth in all Matters

What we learn in this concept is to have a built in lie detector. You have to develop to ability to see the truth in yourself and others to come to a firm grasp on your situation and the situation of others. If you cannot be honest with yourself you are not ready for Paganism. This concept has you take a long hard look into yourself and see the things about you that you may not like. But it will also allow you to see the good things about you too. This is not an easy step to take but it is a necessary one to grow in this religion. Paganism offers no blame to anyone but yourself for your actions, and for some that is a hard thing to grasp. You are responsible for your own actions and that also means you have to be ready to accept the consequences of your actions. If you can't see truth in yourself and do it unbiasly, then there isn't a point in entering this religion. I want you to go and get a mirror, yes I mean now, and sit and look at your self, really look and see how others see you. Do you like who you see in the reflection? If not, well guess what, you have taken the first step in admitting that you are not Perfect! And that means you have seen truth. No one likes themselves all the time, we as humans are not perfect, and that means that we are fallible! So now you have a choice, do you continue on this path and change the person in your reflection? I want you to take some time and think about this. If you make the Decision that you are ready and willing to work towards change you are ready for the Next Concept! If you're not quite there yet, don't give up! Take some time and go back to the first concept. You will get here, it just takes time and a willingness to work towards enlightenment. No one judges you in this path, you are who you are and that is okay because there is no right or wrong way in Paganism, no time limits and NO judgements. Take your time and when you are ready, move on!

Concept 3: You Create Your Own Reality!

Yes that is what it says, YOU create your OWN reality!  This concept teaches us that the Choices we make dictate the Lives thatt we will lead. So make bad decisions and your life will reflect that, make good decisions and that is what your life will be. You make the choice to allow negative things into your life, if you don't like how something in your life is going or has become, you CAN CHANGE IT!  It takes a little time, but it can be done. So in the last concept we learned that there maybe things about yourself that you don't like, well this concept teaches us that we have the control over those things! Isn't that an interesting thought? That you have control over your own life, your lifestyle, and they way that you choose to live in this world? Well believe it, it is the Truth. This is a hard concept to grasp in the fact that it just seems too good to be true. But it is the TRUTH. So how do you get from where you are now to this place where you have the control? You already are. You just have to believe it and do it! This one takes awile to grasp, believe, and act on. So this is where I am going to stop with the November Lessons. These three concepts are a lifetime of work to achieve and to ask you to do them in one month seems silly, but I don't want you to become a master of all this overnight. I just want you to open yourself to the possibilites if these three concepts really are true. SO here is you assignment: meditate and think about what you have learned this month, do you feel different? You should, you have grown, whether of not you realize it, you are becoming a different person. Take time to think on this and feel good about it!

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