Oracle of Consciousness

#143 - Self-Sabotage

Sabotage: to damage, destroy or obstruct something.

Self-sabotage is to cause harm to ourselves.

Now, why would we do that?

Well, deeply ingrained in our history, ancestors, and conditioning, are our behaviours, which have been learned and replicated over the ages.

Remember, we have half our DNA, from Mum, and the other half from Dad, going back and back in time.

Add to that past unresolved pain and trauma, cultural tendencies and beliefs, is it any wonder that substantial healing is required if we are to birth a new humanity!

Unless we put a stop to these mental concepts and beliefs and their resultant behaviours, we will continue to replicate and inflict them upon future generations.

There is no better time than now to break this repetitive mould.

The EGO is the source of our self-sabotaging behaviours.

At some time in this life, we start noticing our repetitive and damaging behavioural patterns.

As we become more aware and conscious, we recognise,

"Wow, this is what I'm doing.
I'm doing this to myself!"

Prior to that, we will usually project this stuff and blame it on somebody else,

"You're the cause of this, you've done this to me!"
"It's all your fault!"

Shining the light of consciousness on our behaviours is the starting point to recognising, accepting and taking responsibility for our conduct.

Now we've got something more truthful that we're telling ourselves.

"This is my behaviour, I can now recognise I am behaving in this manner and it is unhelpful.
I am harming others, and myself."

Which begets the question?

"Why, why do I do this?"

And now we've started the cycle of direct self-inquiry, going inside, looking at, recognising, and acknowledging this is my pattern of behaviour, then asking:

"What is underlying this behaviour?"

"Because I and everybody else can see how I am behaving, what is the root cause of it?"

As we start the process of direct self-inquiry, going deeply into it, not just skimming over the surface, but going deeper and deeper into it, we will come up with that nugget of gold.

"Ah, so that's it. That's it"!

There is a good chance these behaviours or conduct were learnt in your childhood by observing your parents or family members.

Now to be honest, we can't always resolve this ourselves, we may need some help, guidance, coaching, or even some coaxing, but it can be achieved and needs to be done for yours and others wellbeing.

See it as a gift towards more happiness and freedom.

Moving out of your head and into your heart.

Replace self-sabotage
with self-love.

"In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs and the floor dances."

Rumi