At The Beginning...

A few years ago I wrote my first book, The Pain Game. It started as a journaling process through a difficult and life-changing period. It became the book I had always wanted to write to help others find a deeper meaning to life. Because it was through the challenges, the pain, and the suffering that I began to question the meaning of life, this encouraged me to embrace a more spiritual and holistic approach to all that was happening. And it was this approach that in turn began to enrich my own life experiences and stimulate my personal growth on many levels.

It became an inner journey of self-exploration and self-discovery; a way to build a deeper and more meaningful connection with myself. The more I connected to this journey, the more pathways were opening up which began to authenticate and liberate the way I was engaging in my relationships and my operational field. The journey of self-realization is the only way to inner peace and contentment, appreciation and gratitude, and true happiness.

Self-realization is a process whereby our focus is inward, and awareness peaked relative to how we are reacting or responding to situations that are happening in our lives. We begin to take more responsibility for ourselves and how we respond to these situations. This is true empowerment because when we take charge of ourselves, we are less likely to pick on others or situations and see these as the cause for all our frustrations, weaknesses, or inadequacies.

The process of self-realization begins when we learn to value who we each are and the gift of life that we have been given so that we can excel at being the best that we can be. It is an inner journey, the only journey that will preserve the sanctity of our blueprints and give us good cause to celebrate our lives and who we each are. It is always much easier to blame others or our circumstances for what is wrong in the world or what is not working out in our personal lives, but this will only sabotage what we truly need or want. The only way to dignify and honour ourselves is going to come through how we confront our challenges and difficulties. And as meaningless as it may seem to us now, it will one day become our unique legacy in the time and space allocated to us.

After self-publishing and marketing my book very minimally I received some comments from a spiritual healer whose message was that I would have to write a second book and go deeper into the themes that were shared in my first book. Believing that I had already covered everything in my first book I attempted to refuse to do this as the intensity of writing a book of this nature requires a complete commitment, much research, great dedication, and a lot of time 🤷🏻‍♀️

But as the months passed by I began to mentally receive downloads on themes which at first I was ignoring as just being part of my own inner chatter but as they were becoming more persistent I had no choice but to start writing them down. After a while, I realized that I had enough material to venture into the second book, which became The Pain Game Rules. Why use the word ‘rules’ which sounds so formal and regulated? But in a play of words that can be read in any which way, perhaps the emphasis could be on ‘rule’ or ‘be ruled’; the choice is ours. Because a rule is essentially a discipline it requires that we have to build something up in ourselves because rules do apply to how we engage with others and with the difficulties we are confronted with daily in our lives.

One of the most interesting parts of this particular process of receiving mental direction is how we are vehicles through which the creative forces that abound in the Universe communicate to us. We can call it instinct or insight or wisdom but in essence, we are both a product of and connected to something so much grander than we can even begin to comprehend because we are currently experiencing a lifetime and our realities in a dimension of limitations.

This however is changing now as new dimensions are becoming open and available for us to enter. The more we open ourselves up to receiving what comes through us the more able we are to expand the way we view the world. This is what the aim of the inner connection that we make with ourselves gives us. It calls on to us uplift and enhance our personal and collective experiences.

The power that is available to us as individuals can be tapped into at any time. This power is already there and in using it to own and accept every aspect of ourselves is what gives this power momentum. In my personal experience, I can only express how beautiful my life has been despite the many hardships and difficulties I have had to face daily. And I have realized most importantly that the rewards of the work we do on ourselves are the only way we validate who we each are as well as the role we each play in our interactions with the world around us.