“Know Thyself– are the two axiom words inscribed at the entrance of the Temple of Apollo, home of the Oracle of Delphi, arguably, the most famous woman in all of Ancient Greece”—the book of The Mastery of Self by Don Miguel Ruiz.To Know Thyself, is to connect with the SOURCE and to connect with the SOURCE is to understand the Universe, which is, the total of YOU, connected everywhere around you.The internal Universe (which is with-in us) like a mirror, reflects the external Universe, (which is all around us). We are a co-creators of our own world. The reality of the inside, (amplified with our thoughts, and our emotions, contracted with words) reflects and becomes the reality of the outside.Self-mastery is to master everything that goes in our mind as these thoughts give birth to all emotions, and in connection, these emotions are directly proportional to all our manifestations in life.It all starts in the mind; therefore, it is important to be aware and become an observer of our thoughts.Emotion is energy in motion, a movement of the inside reflects the reality of the outside. Emotion emits vibrational frequency energy to the world and the movement and the manifestation we are experiencing in our world is based on our emotions.The Universe pays no attention if what we are channeling is from an emotion of negative or of positive in nature; it only reflects or mirrors them back to our world.These emotions can come as heavy pain to ecstatic joy, these feelings act as signals to make us aware (sort of a ‘heads-up’) of what kind of frequency we emit to the world and to be aware of each feeling as it comes is very important.Consider this like a television, we channel what we want to see on our screen and as we change our channels, we are mastering our remote controls to find what we want to see. In fact, to the point that we already memorize our favorite channels, all we do is log-in the numbers.So is life, we channel what we want to see in our outside world, as we memorize these channels, we master them with our thoughts and consequently our emotions. The emotion serves as an antenna to manifest what we want to experience in our lives.This is where “free will” begins. The free will of what thoughts we choose to entertain and simultaneously the emotions we feel.
Truly, life is an emotional journey.
The reason it is important to be in harmony with our authentic self as we master our shadow self. To glow, one needs to understand how the plugging works. The integration of both is the key to self-mastery.The brighter our spirit, the more we are called to sit with our shadow, to honestly get to know each one, to embrace them, to truly understand how they came about, to know each trigger, to feel as they appear and to finally say goodbye as they are no longer needed to where we are heading—towards our inner glowing light.It is important to confront each shadow repeatedly as they come. Any thought that triggers emotional pain in the body is not who we are, these thoughts were introduced and learned for eons and for several reasons.Awareness is the key to understand all different shadow-self emotions. One of these is fear. The Shadow-self of fear in any form is what our ancestors have learned as these were passed on to them by their ancestors and so on– not their fault as these were introduced to them too.This can be fear of the unknown, fear of being in the dark, fear of certain person, fear of heights, fear of rejection, any form of fear.The next time a particular emotional pain emerged as it stems out from a particular thought, be aware of it, meaning, know as it is happening, feel it, feel how your body responds to it, do not inflict it on others much less to those you love, do not defend it with any actions, sit with it, heal it inside you, do not run away from it, face it, get to know the trigger, get to know their names (Is this Mr. or Ms. Anxiety? Ms. Victim? Ms. Jealousy? Mr. Fear? Ms. Frightened? Mr. Anger?) understand how it came about, and do not identify yourself with it.Be an observer to all these shadow-self emotions.The illusion of the mind is what causes all the emotional pain and all we can do is to be an observer behind these thoughts. Do not let go until you understand the root of every emotional pain and to break away, is to simply confront it as it is happening again and again, until it becomes weaker and weaker, and piece by piece, it disappear, meaning, you have learned the lesson. On to the next lesson as this is where true freedom finally sets-in, where Heaven on Earth feelings begin.
Such is the journey of our lives.Our next article is all about diving deeper in Knowing Thyself and our step by step method as we use all spectrum of emotions as our plug to glow.See you then! Sending hugs and love always. 
