Being self aware

Nobody is perfect. 

Except maybe cats. 

But certainly we humans have a lot to work on. After all, that’s why we’re here on Earth – so that we can gain experience and learn. 

While it’s important to know our strengths and be confident in them, it’s equally important to know our weaknesses. 

If we don’t know our weaknesses, we will never be able to improve. We will not be able to turn them into our strengths. 

Dr. George King gave an address entitled “The Secret of Personal Prayer,” and in this he stresses that it is important to break ourselves down and confess our weaknesses privately to God so that we can begin to build ourselves back up. 

“Then we start the building up process. We’ve come with belief. We’re alone. We’ve confessed. This is good for the soul it has been said. And it is. It’s a metaphysical and an occult fact that confession is one of the finest of all mental medicines. Even your modern medical men know this; as indeed did the ancient Egyptians 325,000 ago, and the Hindus before them, and the Chinese before them, and the Atlantians before them, and the Lemurians before them. Confession has always been one of the great aspects—steps to advancement. Here you’re confessing; you have confessed; you have broken yourself down. Now the gradual building up process.”

Once we are aware of these weaknesses, we then need to act to change them. It isn’t enough to just ask for help, we must act in light of the help we are given. 

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I know that I have faults, but I do try to recognize them and become aware of them. For example, I know that I lack patience and I tend to rush things.  

One time I was starting a new job and I was keen to get involved in different projects and find where I would fit it. 

I had lots of ideas about changes that I would suggest. 

In my haste, I failed to take the time to understand the culture and history of the company. 

What I was suggesting was too much of a leap for many of the people at the new job. The direction I wanted to go in was not what many of my colleagues had in mind. 

This made some working relationships difficult for a while, until I revised my approach.

Had I slowed down and observed, and learned, I would have made it a much easier transition for myself. 
It was a good lesson.

Something you can try

Dr. King’s address on “The Secret of Personal Prayer” is available on Aetherius Cloud. I highly recommend this. Give this practice a try and let me know how it went.