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    My Life Is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living
    My Life Is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living
    My Life Is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living
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    My Life Is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living

    By Peter Mulraney

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    Conscious living involves being aware of what's going on in your life and, more importantly, what's going on in your mind.
    How you experience life depends on what you choose to believe.
    If you never take the time to examine your beliefs, or to question your assumptions, you end up living unconsciously.
    When you live unconsciously, you live your life according to somebody else's beliefs. You end up trying to meet somebody else's expectations and not your own.
    The insights in this book flow from a sense of being aware that you can change the world, but not in the way most of us think about doing that.
    Real change happens when you accept that there is only one thing that can be changed: how you choose to see things.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Mulraney
    Release dateApr 23, 2017
    ISBN9780994562470
    My Life Is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living
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    Peter Mulraney

    Peter grew up in country South Australia, before going to Adelaide to complete high school and attend university. While he was studying in the city, he met an Italian girl and forgot to go home. Now he's married and has two grown children. He worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant. Now, he gets to write every day instead. He is the author of the Inspector West and Stella Bruno Investigates crime series; the Living Alone series, for men who find themselves alone at the end of a long term relationship; and the Everyday Business Skills series for people looking to take advantage of his knowledge and skills. As a mystic, he has written several books which explores some of life's deeper questions, including Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, and My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living.

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      My Life Is My Responsibility - Peter Mulraney

      My life is my responsibility

      Mountains reflected in lake.

      Until you come to the point of accepting responsibility for everything that happens in your life, you are not free.

      When you refuse to accept that your life is your responsibility, you continue to blame someone or something else for everything that happens to you. You see yourself as a victim of fate, a tyrannical god, controlling people, and natural disasters. You blame your parents, the government, and any person who abused you in any way for how your life has turned out.

      Accepting responsibility for your life is both confronting and liberating at the same time.

      It’s confronting when you have experienced things or committed acts you would rather forget than take responsibility for.

      It’s liberating because it lets you see that you are never a victim.

      How do we go about accepting responsibility for our lives?

      One way is to stop thinking of yourself as a human being with a limited lifespan and to see yourself as a spiritual being that chose to incarnate into the human form - for specific learning experiences.

      When you look at your life from this perspective, you need to acknowledge that you chose your parents and the circumstances into which you were born.

      From this perspective, you also come to appreciate that events happen for you and not to you. Things only happen to you if you see yourself as a victim.

      Another way of looking at that is to regard all events as neutral – that is; they happen but they have no intrinsic meaning. The only meaning any event has is the meaning you give it. You are the one who decides whether an event is beneficial, disastrous, or of no consequence.

      Accepting responsibility for your life means acknowledging that you have total control over the way in which you respond to any event.

      That’s why you hear all sorts of gurus telling you that change begins within. They're telling you that although you may not be able to change the world, you can change the way you behave.

      Accepting responsibility for your life also means you get to choose what you believe; instead of simply accepting what others tell you to believe.

      Ponder point

      So, who or what has control of your life?

      You might think you are in control but, unless you’re willing to examine your beliefs and habits, you’re probably fooling yourself.

      Actions to consider

      Spend some time listening to what you say, and what you think but don’t say.

      Take a look at how you react when people push your buttons.

      Start keeping a journal to record your observations.

      Attend to your own business

      Cloister

      One of the great temptations of life is to run other people’s lives for them. It’s a great distraction from running your own.

      Have you noticed how parents like to tell their children how to live their lives, even when they’re adults with children of their own?

      Most of the time you don’t even realize you’re doing it. Other times you do it on purpose – with the best of intentions, of course. After all, you do know what’s best, don’t you?

      The truth is you don’t know what’s best for another. It often takes a lifetime of inner work to discover what is best for yourself.

      The flip side is you often let other people run your life - whether it’s a spouse, a parent, a priest, some politician or the gossip down the street – or, more likely these days, on social media or talkback radio.

      Part of taking responsibility for your life is allowing others to take responsibility for their business while you attend to yours.

      That doesn’t mean that as parents of young children you let them do as they please, but it does mean that as your children grow and mature you need to transfer the responsibility for how they live their lives gradually over to them.

      Not always easy but essential. At some point, though, you need to be like the birds and push them out of the nest.

      How someone chooses to behave is not your business. What you choose to do about it - that’s your business. That’s the part you are responsible for.

      When we aren’t running other people’s lives, we often devote our energy to solving the problems of the world or complaining about things we have no influence over – activities which provide distraction or avoidance from the realities of our lives.

      Attending to your business, instead of trying to run the world, is actually a lot less stressful than worrying about things you have no control over.

      Funny thing is though, when you stop trying to run other people’s lives, they seem to do a good job of living them on their own, and you start enjoying your own life more.

      Ponder point

      Whose lives are you interfering in? Who are you telling how to live their life or bring up their children?

      If you’re doing it professionally, keep in mind that doing it as an educator and not as a dictator will always be more effective.

      Actions to consider

      Observe how you relate to the people in your life, at home and at work. Are you trying to take care of their business?

      Notice whether you let others tell you what to do or what to think. Are you taking care of your business?

      Record your observations and thoughts in your journal.

      Living your life without a clear intention

      Dove Lake, Tasmania

      You can either let the circumstances of your life story dictate the path of your life - or you can choose a specific path for yourself.

      If you let your circumstances dictate, they could take you anywhere, because you are relinquishing any control you might have.

      This often seems the easier choice, which is why you hear motivational speakers challenge you to get out of your comfort zone. It’s called a comfort zone because you don’t have to do anything different if you stay there. But, you have to deal with whatever happens, and I hear a lot of people complaining about the hand life has dealt them.

      On the other hand, if you set your intention on living a certain kind of life, you signal your desire to the universe, and you can take action to move in that direction.

      This takes courage. Often it involves doing something different to everybody around you. It often means people will think (and tell you) that you’re crazy or

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