TIRET October 2012 Issue - MIDROC Ethiopia

Doing it Otherwise
A LeAp TO perSONAL GreATNeSS
BY UNCOVERING THE TRUE SELF
By: Dr. Selam Aklilu
Every man and woman without exception senses that
there is something else beyond his ordinary life. The
perfect evidence that there is something far better is the
enduring search for it. Our task is to raise this unconscious
sense to the conscious level where it enriches us just
as pearls enrich the man who bring them up from the
ocean. No person and no circumstance can prevent
you from experiencing the new life. Not even you can
prevent it, if you are willing to find the true self. Your life
transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of
truth you can take without running away.
So do these:-
• Proceed courageously upon the principle that
even just a glimpse of light leads to more light. For
it always does. Just dare a lot, and you will get a
lot. But all this may call for your goal to become a
normally functioning individual with real nature of a
simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
• Start with a right frame of mind, with simple
receptivity. Everything depends upon the way we
take the truth. Your grasp of it makes everything else
clear. Man has a false sense of identity. He thinks he
is his false self, just the body, which he is not, the
two conflicting selves with in him: his true self and
his false self. It is difficult at the start to see that but
what a fine step toward wholeness! The false self
consists of everything negative within a person. Its
nature is to be envious, helpless, angry, despairing,
worried, critical, unstable, foolish and everything
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The Writer of this article, Dr. Selam Aklilu, is the Director of the
first Chiropractic and Wellness Clinic in Addis Ababa for the last
11 years. She has her first degree in Chemical Technology, and
secured her Doctor of Chiropractic and Doctor of Medicine degrees
consecutively. She has been in private practice for 24 years with
a special interest in psycho-neuro immunology emphasizing “our
thinking governs or affects our health”. Prior to moving to Ethiopia
she has been practicing in Los Angeles, California for 13 years.
She is a Mother of 4 and married for 25 years, and has been on a
personal journey of “looking inwards” for the last 25 years.
else at enmity with happiness. It is the cause of
all inward pressure which explodes outwardly in
wars, crimes and other social tragedies. The man
dominated by his false self does not live his day, he
is driven through it, hounded by compulsive desires,
pained by automatic desires, scared by unrealistic
imaginations. Because he wrongly takes himself as
the false self, his desperation is endless. And there
for one loses the objective of every seeker which
is to become an enlightened, happy, and pleasant
human being.
• To overcome the barrier to happiness, the false self
cannot be and need not be changed. But it can be
dissolved and be replaced by the True Self.
• Remember the false self is false, it is nonexistent, but
by believing in it we act as if it were real. In reality
there is only one self, one power. The True Self is
your higher self, the Divinity In man.
• The task is to dissolve the imaginary self and live
from our real center of being. That is the only way
to human health. The greatest single barrier to
attaining this is mans secret assumption that he
already knows the answer to his problems. The only
evil is ignorance, unawareness, failure to see our
authentic identity. To the degree that we learn to
live from our true identity, our pains and follies fall
away, to be replaced with peace and wisdom.