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Yes to the first part, and I highly recommend it for anybody. No, you don't need to believe in god, but the twelve step program does recommend to trust in a power great than yourself. Why? because it was yourself that got you into trouble over and over again. In other words, you can no longer trust yourself to recover yourself, so you will need help. Remember, the 12-step program was put together to people overcome their addictions (e.g., alcoholism). But the program is so good it has helped all sorts of people to achieve a life of serenity.

Every adult has an inner child based on their own memories of how to be a child. Now that you are an adult and through introspection have come to realize the differences to how you are now to when you were growing up. The adult in you, the nurturing part of you, wants to nurture the wounds that have not yet been fully accepted. For many in the same situation, they have taken over the parent role over themselves. They have searched for the truth of these wounds, and through their acceptance have been able to heal themselves (inner child self). Their inner child eventually losses its fears and starts to come out to play. This is when an adult is not ashamed to be childlike but not childish.

Thanks orroz. That is true. However one can believe and experience the truth as opposed to a placebo (untrue). That is, we are already okay, but our enslavement to our ego-self won't reveal that for it fears losing its need (not okay) for validity. The paradox is: It is okay to not be okay.

Thanks TimStr. I like your above quote, for it points to what happens when we are okay. We (our body) becomes the vehicle for our innate Spirit-self, the creative nature of Reality. Our body-mind has surrendered all fears of self, to make room for the fearless Self to take over. Suddenly you see yourself (body and mind) differently. Your old self seems like a computer hardware (body) with software/wetware (mind). The upgrade (Self) needs no improvement. Even the body feels liberated and revitalized for it is no longer burdened with ego-fears (not okay). Personally, I slip in and out of both the old (not okay) and the new (okay) many times in the day.

Nothing is potentially everything.

If your goal is to repeat a number of affirmations everyday, a big part of your affirmation is to seek and not get results. Use an affirmation whenever it occurs for you to do it. Example: if I were a smoker, and whenever I get the thought/urge to have a smoke, I say my affirmation, such as "Smoke! I don't even smoke, why would I want to smoke!" Affirmations work best in the NOW. That is why the above affirmation does not refer to me as a smoker, but a person who does not smoke.

To be okay with what is true is the ultimate happiness of belonging to Reality.

Forgiving my childhood abuser. Overcoming alcoholism, drug addition and park-bench existence. Re-educating myself to gain university entrance, and then a Bachelor of Health Science (rehab counselling). Contender for the Worlds Masters Road Cycling Championships. Surrendering all the above for gratitude as opposed to being proud.

Not if used to express agreement, understanding, and acceptance of what is true.

When you think you need improvement then that part which is not, is not okay, or else you would not see a need for improvement.

Can you not believe you are okay when you are okay?

One step at a time, one thought at a time; that is the maximum amount of control required to survive here. Acceptance is the key to unravel it all.

@harisankartj Our realm, the world we walk through, and the observable universe, is the densest realm we know of. Anything denser we would have perceived it, but we have not as yet. However, we are aware of finer realms. Perhaps you have realized that without realizing it (so to speak).

@momo Reality is something that is true, but our mind, a by-product of brain activity is not something we can point at and say "look, there is the mind". However all our thoughts and perceptions come from what we cannot point at. So we can never really tell for certain. All I can say is that our reality is totally assembled by the mind.

A person may know their true ego-self and not know their True spirit-self. In that case, their life-purpose will be dictated by their ego and it will be of an exploitative nature in one form or another. If a person knows their True-self by the most tinniest amount, they will be pulled towards it. Their life purpose will be influenced by that tinniest bit of Truth, and will be somehow part of their life purpose. The more predominant that True-self becomes the more predominant the life-purpose is to serve it. It transcends into servicing the world as opposed to exploiting it.

Believe that nothing is impossible.

To my understanding, no not while you are still here. To attain all of absolute Truth (uncreated light) nothing would hold you together. Transfiguration and ascension are the words related to this phenomenon. Why? Fear. What to do? Become unconditional in all things, for the Truth is unconditional and its expression is unconditional love (aka uncreated light). To become Spirit is to be one with God.

My suggestion is to question your mind without questioning it, so to speak. The reason is, is that our ego is our primary censor. It wants to censor everything, and if it gets too busy doing so, our conscience hardly gets a say. So to bypass the ego censorship is to ignore it. So what happens is that while you are contemplating on your refined question, like contemplating on a single word, the ego censorship will first bring up the least threatening answers. They usually include definitions that you already believed in, knew or heard about. So really there is nothing new here. However, since you are ignoring these, the ego will start to feel threatened by this invalidation. It may even start squirming for you to break your contemplation. But stay with it. Usually after a long period of silence a deeper truth may arise as if the ego were to say: "Is this what you are looking for"? Usually its a tidbit to keep you from contemplating further. Often tidbits of truth lead to further truths and are often claimed by the ego as a 'revelation' to recover from the threat. One can still go deeper, but you maybe waiting for a long time. But do not despair, because every minute in contemplation one is digging. The hole dug may make it easier for the truth to be revealed in some unexpected circumstance. A trigger, so to speak, which the ego got tricked into letting go of its censorship for some other priority. And another truth, while doing something else, pops into your head... the yes / aha factor.

1) It's easy and goes with the grain. 2) It's challenging and you have to go against the grain.

Enlightenment is not to be ignorant of your own truth. Part of that truth is your emotions, in terms of how they arise and why. In a nutshell, emotions are either love-based or fear-based. They can range from very subtle to intolerable. Mastery is to know the truth which fuels the emotion. By knowing this, one will also know that the fear-based ones are conditional and unreal, and the love-based ones are unconditional and real. In either case, while you are true, there is nothing to do. For the unreal is illusionary and pointless to be involved with. The real is what it is without any need or want of anything.

Their world (in the past) was more geared towards efficiency (quality), which requires mindfulness. These days efficiency is no longer important but quantity. Life today is about how fast can you get things done, Scheduling became paramount to fit in quantity into every spare moment of time. Rush, rush, rush, work faster, do it now! That is what we get paid to do by most businesses today.

@Hero in progress You Need To Do The Work! Yes, that is so until you understand that it is no longer required. Much like needing a person with dangerously low self-esteem required to work on themselves to build up their self-esteem. But if they keep going, they will realize that they no longer need it. Because they have transcended reliance on self (false-self) to Self (true-self). They become soft, gentle and efficient in a life of truth. They no longer have to struggle (work) so much to become truthful to themselves. They appear to be not struggling (having to do the work).

Sometimes it can happen when a person totally surrenders their ego coupled with unconditional love. It throws off all the cover-stories over the Truth. Suddenly the Truth is revealed, that everything you knew (your whole life) was just a fabrication of your own mind - and invalid. A new you is born that cannot find serenity without the Truth; without surrendering the ego coupled with unconditional love.

There are as many reasons as there are artists. Each have their unique twist to that reason, even if it is simple a means to earn a living. The reasons I like to be creative is the meditative aspect (focus over time) on what I am doing and wish to reveal. Secondly, to discover a new aspect of myself in terms of creativity; I often surprise myself as to what evolves in front of me. Also, my subconscious often is revealed within the artworks, and that can be sometimes a bit of a shock, yet it is a way of discovering your own truth.

@ParanoidAndroid If your meditation helps you to see the truth and become more honest, then most women (and anybody else), find that attractive. This is because they feel less vulnerable to deception. Yet again they may feed vulnerable if they feel they need to reciprocate in the same way. However, if your aim is to impress, then all you will get are those that need to be impressed. They love the impression but not the lifestyle of being seen but not being seen.