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Landi Star · 06-30-2009, 11:49 PM

I’ve been into LOA/I-M for a long time and one of the things put out in one (or more) of the IM-related seminars I took a few decades ago is the notion of taking total responsibility for everything.

The idea was/is that… whether it is obvious to you or not, whether it makes rational sense or not, whether you can see or understand what part you played in something or not, you simply try on the notion (or viewpoint) that somehow, on some level, in some mysterious way, you have something to do with everything that occurs in your life.
Experiment with that viewpoint and see what happens in your life.

For a long time I have lived my life coming from this point of view… I have incorporated it so that it’s generally “second nature” to me… and I can tell you that the difference it makes is huge. I stop myself when I start blaming circumstances or others for something I don’t like… I’ve had to give up “playing victim” or feeling like a victim in many circumstances where that’s what I’m tempted to do… and I’ve been greatly empowered to take charge of things and create my life the way I would like as a result of cultivating this mindset. I’ve also found a lot of peace and have lightened up a lot because ‘taking responsibility’ engenders giving up a lot of the fighting, blaming, resentments, grudges, anger, and life-struggles. The “responsibility mindset” also is a more conducive “ground of being” for deliberately creating (or manifesting) the things you intend in life.

Now keep in mind that this “taking responsibility for all” is not a head-thing. It’s not something you try to figure out with your head, especially when you look at situations for which you can’t see how you could be responsible for them (or any aspect of them). You don’t analyze things, you don’t feel bad about things or blame yourself for having “manifested” something which made a mess in your life or for others (You do try to clean up the mess, but without blame).

You just don’t think-about (or think-about as little as possible) and simply take responsibility…
Like if it’s something “bad” I might think, “Ooops… something in me must have brought this about somehow… Now what do I want?… (or “…What do I do? or “…How do I clean this up?”). Something along those lines.

At least that’s how I use this concept/tool. Actually that’s a key word there… For me it’s more of a “tool” for life-empowerment than anything else.
I don’t care if I’ve manifested the lousy leader of some other country or any of that stuff. I’m more concerned with the circumstances of my life and what I can do to change things (in my life and in the world).

06-30-2009, 11:49 PM	#10 (permalink)
Landi Star Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 71	taking responsibility for all I’ve been into LOA/I-M for a long time and one of the things put out in one (or more) of the IM-related seminars I took a few decades ago is the notion of taking total responsibility for everything. The idea was/is that… whether it is obvious to you or not, whether it makes rational sense or not, whether you can see or understand what part you played in something or not, you simply try on the notion (or viewpoint) that somehow, on some level, in some mysterious way, you have something to do with everything that occurs in your life. Experiment with that viewpoint and see what happens in your life. For a long time I have lived my life coming from this point of view… I have incorporated it so that it’s generally “second nature” to me… and I can tell you that the difference it makes is huge. I stop myself when I start blaming circumstances or others for something I don’t like… I’ve had to give up “playing victim” or feeling like a victim in many circumstances where that’s what I’m tempted to do… and I’ve been greatly empowered to take charge of things and create my life the way I would like as a result of cultivating this mindset. I’ve also found a lot of peace and have lightened up a lot because ‘taking responsibility’ engenders giving up a lot of the fighting, blaming, resentments, grudges, anger, and life-struggles. The “responsibility mindset” also is a more conducive “ground of being” for deliberately creating (or manifesting) the things you intend in life. Now keep in mind that this “taking responsibility for all” is not a head-thing. It’s not something you try to figure out with your head, especially when you look at situations for which you can’t see how you could be responsible for them (or any aspect of them). You don’t analyze things, you don’t feel bad about things or blame yourself for having “manifested” something which made a mess in your life or for others (You do try to clean up the mess, but without blame). You just don’t think-about (or think-about as little as possible) and simply take responsibility… Like if it’s something “bad” I might think, “Ooops… something in me must have brought this about somehow… Now what do I want?… (or “…What do I do? or “…How do I clean this up?”). Something along those lines. At least that’s how I use this concept/tool. Actually that’s a key word there… For me it’s more of a “tool” for life-empowerment than anything else. I don’t care if I’ve manifested the lousy leader of some other country or any of that stuff. I’m more concerned with the circumstances of my life and what I can do to change things (in my life and in the world).