We Live Life From An Inner S(s)elf
That Is Out Of Balance

As individuals, we have become disconnected from authentic personal meaning in our daily living.
And, collectively, we have forgotten who and why we are human.

We have lost our Real Identity; we have lost our True Essence.

We are afflicted by fear, controlled by compulsive thinking,
and often deceived by the dictates of our rational mind.
We believe that we are the rational, logic mind and nothing else.
Or, we believe that we are an intuitive, non-logical mind and nothing else.

We are individually out of psychological balance.
This inner disequilibrium is the true source of our daily stress.

We Have Forgotten

That Our Authentic S(s)elf

Has Two Minds:

Rational AND Intuitive

Personal inner peace is founded upon an “in-the-moment” re-connection
with a balanced inner S(s)elf.
The Mangrove Seed offers a daily path to balance
our intuitive, trust-based mind(S) and our rational, fear-based mind(s).

Our true individual "mind" is comprised of both these aspects: rational and intuitive.
Each is motivated differently, each processes our life situations differently.
The rational mind is emotionally wrapped in fear-based emotions;
the intuitive mind is wrapped in trust-based emotions.
However, each must speak,
in a balanced way,
for authentic S(s)elf realization to manifest.

The process is essentially twofold:

First, the psychological recovery of a new balanced S(s)elf, and,
second, an experiential application of this new inner S(s)elf
in challenging daily life situations.
This process never ends; the journey IS the destination.

Moreover, personal fulfillment and enjoyment become possible
when our true identity is authentically expressed by our balanced S(s)elf.

We Are Often Motivated By Fear

And Our Rational Mind Creates

The Illusion Of Personal Control

When our rational mind becomes fear based, it causes inner anxiety.
Its dominance creates an imbalanced and constant need
to control the outcomes of our external environment.

The objective memories from our past
that are wrapped with a subjective pain-based emotion,
commonly called resentments, prompt the rational mind
to motivate us to avoid the re-occurrence of this "past pain."

Our rational mind also creates future fears(mental expectations)
based upon an avoidance-of-pain belief system.

The projected possibility of a future re-occurrence
of actual "past pain"
is the basis for a dominant defensive survival strategy . . .
and the creation of our illusion that we can control, with certainty,
the outcomes in daily life situations.

We Cannot Give Away Peace

Until We Know INNER Peace PERSONALLY

Re-balancing the inner S(s)elf will give us inner peace.
Without inner peace, we have nothing to offer other S(s)elves.

Moreover, we cannot really give our inner peace away
if we do not truly experience personal peace.
Additionally, we cannot assume that other S(s)elves
will accept our peace into their lives
without our authentically knowing and living peace
in our daily lives.

The emulation of human role models
is the primary cause of human personal change, both positive and negative.
If we can learn to sprout rather than spout peace
by individual example,
we can offer encouragement to future generations.

We must walk the talk, as they say.
Simple, but not necessarily easy.
Every day is a struggle to live from a space of inner peace.