Discernment

By Jim Koury

From our earliest days as a child the primary cognitive ability we begin to develop is our power of discernment.  As children we naturally wished to discover new things and understand the world around us.  As we grew older our power of discernment became more refined and this desire to discover and understand expanded to a much broader plane as our mental abilities developed. 

As adults we are faced with more complex situations in our planes of consciousness.  In our relationships, jobs or whatever life event we are faced with, we often times feel we have had challenges discerning a particular situation for exactly what it was.  These challenges can be rooted in our tendency to allow our discerning abilities to become clouded with other people’s perceptions and ideas of how others should live their lives.  When we begin to examine situations we are faced with jaded with the conclusion of another person’s discernment, then we have lost our innate ability to effectively discern qualities and aspects of ourselves and how they relate to the world around us on our own terms as individuals.

We must cast off the shackles of judgment of another within our own thought processes.  We need to allow ourselves to simply “let go” of that judgment and just be in a state of “being” present and allowing any situation we are faced with to just unfold.  This is a challenging feat but it can be done.

We all have a driving force within us that if tapped into can jettison us far away from the influences of of someone else’s judgment and to allow things to just “unfold.”  This driving force is the energy of our higher selves that begins to bubble to the surface and pulsates even more profoundly as we increase our awareness by just “being.”  Tapping into the force of our higher selves can allow us to reject someone else’s worldview and the influence of that worldview on our way of thinking.  We no longer need to embrace false assumptions created by others and overlay them into our life’s journey.  We have found our ability at this point to shape our own worldviews guided by what we feel is right for us.  When we set out on our own path, ignited by the power of our higher selves, we will ultimately discover our true life’s purpose – our destiny -- that was always just out of reach and never fully graspable.

Make a decision to set yourself free and journey within yourself.  There you will find reconciliation with your true purpose in life.