The Inner Game
This might be the most important thing I write to date, possibly ever. We’ll see how good it is. This is going to be a little different from what I usually do. This is going to be more of a rant. I hope this helps you and provides some value.
Thank you for your attention.
This year my main focus has been playing with identity and my inner game which we will call Inner State. I’ve come to discover that most people today allow life to happen to them and then their Inner State changes, ‘LIFE HAPPENS > STATE CHANGES’. And this is when they start blaming the things happening to them. They take little to no responsibility and complain complain complain. They feel powerless and feel as if they have no control over their lives.
Sometimes it’s not their fault, they just haven’t been taught or become aware through a mentor, spiritual teachings or some other way that they have control over their lives and more importantly… their Inner State which affects the course of their entire life from moment to moment, STATE CHANGE > LIFE HAPPENS.
Your life happens as a result of your Inner State. Looking back at my life… I’ve found my lowest points were because I didn’t have a strong Internal State. Actually it wasn’t that it wasn’t strong, it’s that I let it unknowingly get off-centre, off balance and that’s the reason I didn’t feel steady until I adjusted my Inner State.
How do some people go through the most torturous of storms in their lives and come out strong but then some people go through one minor thing and feel ruined for a long period of time? The difference… their Inner State. One’s Inner Game is stronger and more stable than the other.
We have the power to change our lives, literally. This isn’t some woo-woo stuff. This is real and it has been around as long as we have been around. We have the control and choice to change our lives in a matter of minutes. By changing our State we change our lives, how we feel, think, approach certain situations and handle different obstacles.
Our State is the common denominator for things we do in life, it’s what makes us different as people. It’s the difference between the professional athlete who cracks under pressure and the one who handles it as easily as ‘just another day at the office’.
Make no mistake this takes work! Probably the hardest, most vulnerable work you are ever going to do. It’s going to be exhausting, it’s going to be frustrating, it’s going to be annoying, it’s going to be emotional, it’s going to be scary, and that’s ok. It’s meant to be. Nothing worth doing was ever easy. You might have to constantly tune back into your State to realign yourself until it becomes solid and stable, eventually unmovable unless you make it so.
Working on The-Self… we spend all this time learning about other things to survive, but never ourselves, to thrive. Do you want to just survive in this life or do you want to thrive? The choice is yours… if you don’t, life will make that choice for you, and I feel you’ll know what it’ll choose.
I’m into my journey of working on my Inner State and it has been a reward so far, tough but rewarding, you learn quickly and change quickly.
As it says inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in Naxos, Greece, Know Thyself. It’s no surprise this has been passed down for generations and in religious studies.
This is the most important work you can do in your life. It will determine not just how you live, but how well you live this life.
Your Inner State is the answer. Play The Inner Game.
Until next time,
Brody
