Peer pressure on your path to enlightenment

​#Aprilinleo 11.04.2024

Peer pressure is the subject, and the best approach that I ever learned was from a book that I read a long time ago. The four agreements, by Miguel Ruiz. One interesting story is how I got there. I was reading Carlos Castaneda's books, and he got an enlightened being there, a teacher called Don Juan Matus, a Nagual, following the ancient Toltec wisdom. Quite good to learn how to change and adapt your own perception of our world. But I digress.

Looking around one day, I found a funny-looking book called "The Four Agreements", and the writer, Miguel Ruiz, claimed to be also a Nagual, sharing with us the Toltec tradition key points. So I bought the book, and the short version is that there are four agreements that we should try to honour in life, and this will have like result a better self-knowledge and an improved quality of life. Let's quickly go through these four things, and see how we can escape forever from the peer pressure trap:

1. Be impeccable in all that you say.
   Talk clearly, always saying only what you are thinking. Never gossip, or try to hurt others using words. Always say the truth. Now this one seems to remind me of two of the yoga principles from Yama and Niyama. Ahimsa (nonviolence) and Satya (truthfulness).

2. Never take anything personally.
   Nothing that others do has something to do with your inner life. They are only projecting outside their own experiences, their own fears, their own hopes. It is all subjective to them. Once you learn this, you are immune to other people's drama. You can see that this is not about them trying to hurt you, they just project their own issues outside, trying to communicate. Knowing this you will not suffer unnecessarily anymore.

3. Never make assumptions.
   Ask about what others want to communicate and try to explain exactly what you want. Try to communicate clearly and find out more about what others want, to avoid misunderstandings, problems and drama.

4. Always do your best.
   Your maximum potential is not always the same, as it may change depending if you are rested or not, healthy or sick, focused or unfocused. Anyway, always doing your best, you find out that there is no place for regrets, self-sabotage or self-punishment, once you know you did all that you could do.

Just a quick look and it seems that this is quite simple, yet not simplistic. All these agreements are easy to understand, but a bit like a game of chess, knowing the moves is not enough to be a champion. Practice will make a difference, and if you try to follow them, even for a while, your life will change. Just imagine, you are always truthful and try not to hurt others, you are detached from all the outside drama, you try to understand others and to make yourself better understood, and you are not engaged in self-hate or trying to diminish yourself and your actions. You know who you are, you are stable, calm, wise, good and powerful.

Learning about the four agreements is now a practice that helped improve many lives all around the world, and from what I know, even the US Air Force adopted training based on them to improve their pilots' lives. Try it for yourself, and see the magic happen.

In the end, all of this is about a journey that you need to make, but most of the journey is happening inside you, leading to the discovery of your real self, that grain of Godliness that we forgot about so long ago.

All the best,

George

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