Friday 22 July 2011

Rules of Being Human

I didn't write this and I can't quite discover who did.  I found it at the end of a great book on Craniosacral Therapy by Rollin Becker called The Stillness of Life.  I think it's rather fab.

Rules of Being Human

1.  You will receive a body.  You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2.  You will learn lessons.  You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life.  Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.  You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.

3.  There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of trial and error experimentation.  The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works".

4.  A lesson is repeated until it is learned.  A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.  When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5.  Learning lessons does not end.  There is no part of life that does not contain lessons.  If you are alive then there are lessons to be learned.

6.  "There" is no better than "here".  When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look better than "here".

7.  Others are merely mirrors of you.  You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8.  What you make of your life is up to you.  You have all of the tools and resources you need.  What you do with them is up to you.  The choice is yours.

9.  Your answers lie inside you.  The answers to life's questions lie inside you.  All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10.  You will forget all this.




Daniel Kingsley - Cranio - on Facebook
www.reconnectohealth.co.uk

1 comment:

  1. These were written by Cherie Carter-Scott. I have a book, "If life is a game, these are the rules" by Cherie, which expands on the rules and explains a bit more how to apply them. It was written after the rules had been circulating, passed on many times, for years.

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