Many articles are written about the powerful EGO or the compassionate SELF. The story lines are similar, kill or abolish the Ego, accept or embrace the Self. This would certainly imply that the Ego is bad and the Self is good. Is it true that we as an existence still see and live life through duality? Good vs Evil?
What would you say if I told you that neither Ego nor Self exist? That they are just labels, words, that comfort our need to blame or find refuge in a separate or deeper self entity?
It is my belief that when we are ever aware, when we live in each & every present moment we find that these labels or false self entities aren't even conceivable. I say inconceivable because we realize that we JUST ARE. Taking the time to form a judgement or express hatred takes us away from the PRESENT. In essence we are processing these responses, good or bad, through PAST conditioning or PAST beliefs. It is the belief that Ego exists that justifies our fear responses and it is our belief that Self exists that justifies our expression of love and compassion.
Instead of justification I propose we FEEL each and every moment. When we FEEL our way through each moment, through life, we see that time is an illusion. (Past, present, future is a time-space illusion.)
You'll see that when you FEEL the moment/the present, you won't look backwards to rely on past beliefs or conditioning & you won't look forward with false hope to rely on pre-conceptualized ideals or outcomes. You'll see that your reactions to every situation and every moment will come from within, without past or future thought or relation.
Is it human nature or human behaviour that causes us to search for the answers to why, whom, where or how? Why do we have such a need to validate, justify or figure out? Why do we struggle to trust within? This IS where to find our truth. Questions and answers are irrelevant when we find, learn to trust, KNOW our true essence, our true being.
Be assured of this: Ego will not manipulate nor hinder, Self will not support nor validate... this as a result of their non-existence. They DO NOT exist.
We give ourselves too much credit. We are a wise manipulative breed, us humans. We learn to adapt, sometimes at a price based on our cunningness and resourcefulness.
Take a step back to FEEL more and think less. Go with the flow and experience this human experience.
Enjoy your life, less constricted, less compartmentalized, less filtered.
Namaste
Helping Hands, Holistic Care
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Self Acceptance or Ego Death?
What is Enlightenment?
Is it the Western view: Self Acceptance, the Eastern view: Ego Death or both or neither?
The following question was presented by Carter Phipps to 4 renowned spiritual teachers: Deepak Chopra, Cheri Huber, Paul Lowe and Saniel Bonder. (full article: Enlightennext Magazine http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j17/self_acceptance.asp)
Question: The goal of traditional spiritual teachings has generally been understood to be ego death—the final destruction of our attachment to a separate sense of self. But in today's rapidly evolving spiritual culture, what is often taught as the means to liberation is not ego death, but self-acceptance—acceptance of every aspect of ourselves, including our egos. The message of self-acceptance has become increasingly popular and is now commonly seen by spiritual teachers from almost every tradition to be the most effective and holistic way to address the suffering of contemporary Western spiritual seekers. As someone who works closely with many seekers, guiding them on the delicate and subtle path to liberation, why do you emphasize the importance of self-acceptance in the pursuit of spiritual freedom?
Deepak Chopra: When people get in touch with themselves, they become aware that the inner core of their being contains opposing energies. The human soul, because of its karmic baggage, is a place of ambiguity. It is a place where sinner and saint, the sacred and the profane, the divine and the diabolical coexist in seed form. When we get in touch with this part of ourselves and accept it for what it is, we simultaneously lose the need to judge others. Christ said, "He who is without sin shall cast the first stone." I believe what he was saying was that self-acceptance makes us compassionate, forgiving and nonjudgmental of others. This is the first stage of liberation.
Cheri Huber: "Kill the ego" is a phrase that is easily misinterpreted. Who is identifying "ego"? Who is killing whom? Who is seeing whom as the problem? Who is right and who is wrong? Who is making these decisions? There are two things we can count on where egocentricity is concerned—One: It is very clever; Two: Its only job is survival. Ego will take anything—ANYTHING—and use it for its purposes, even the notion of killing/ dissolving/ transcending/ accepting itself. You can see the danger, spiritually speaking, of misinterpreting "kill the ego."
These words are interchangeable: I, ego, egocentricity, conditioning, karma, suffering. The definition they share is that they are the illusion of a self that is separate.
I offer this as a working definition of self-acceptance: The realization that there is nothing separate—from All That Is, from "God," from Essence. It is the moment-by-moment living awareness that the self who struggles is not who we are but is, instead, karmic conditioning, a learned response to life, a survival system that served us as children but has lost its efficacy for us as adults and now needs to be appreciated, embraced and relieved of its job.
The desire to get rid of ego is very different from ceasing to identify with a karmically driven, egocentric, socially conditioned illusion of a separate self. The first implies a contest: Ego is charged with killing ego; ego battles with ego; ego wins! The second implies letting go of the illusion of control; it is the end of struggle, and the means to that end is awareness.
The processes that I teach for ceasing to identify with conditioning are threefold: pay attention, believe nothing, take nothing personally. I don't actually teach self-acceptance. I encourage people to see that the things they believe about themselves are not true. When you see through all that you have been taught to believe, when you realize who you are, self-acceptance becomes irrelevant.
All suffering is held in place by false beliefs. All beliefs are false. What is, is. Believing it is not helpful. Believing is what the illusory separate self does to maintain an existence outside the present moment. The process of not taking any of this personally allows us to see that we are all in the same boat. We can take responsibility for ending suffering, but we don't have to blame ourselves for being born into it.
Paul Lowe: If I emphasize self-acceptance it is because it is the deepest level of the spiritual path I have found that people will allow me to share with them. I have not found people who are ready to share at the level of, let's say, radiating nothing. When I share more deeply, it is not about self-acceptance, it is just being, including everything, with awareness.
This is not new. Jesus said, "Take no thought of the morrow, let the morrow take care of itself." It is an inclusive, positive approach, and to me, it is living what IS real. Is it good or bad? Does it benefit or harm? It just is!On one level we have the illusion that there is an ego; on another level there is no ego. It is the same with self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is still a movement away from what is. At a certain level of realization, there is no self; therefore, self-acceptance does not exist.
We think we can accept or not accept, but the fact is: Existence is existence and we can either say yes or no to it. With "no" we go into the mind and conditioning, whether it is Christian conditioning or the new waves of Eastern influence. But when we live a total, unconditional "yes" to what is happening, we evolve.
Science says we use five percent of our brain and experience one-billionth of reality. People who have entered the depths of Eastern wisdom tell us there is much more. And there is. We get there by being ourselves, unconditionally, in each moment. And the method I have found most supportive is absolute ruthless honesty with yourself, and when you are ready, sharing the truth with others. Be in the truth of each moment—all that you are sensing in the body, thinking in the mind, feeling with the emotions. Don't suppress it and don't support it. Be with what is.I have come to see that this focus on enlightenment is outdated. It was a goal for a while; it gave us something to head for. But enlightenment is another myth, another idea of God, something outside of ourselves to look toward to comfort ourselves.
In my search I have often felt, "This is it!"—and then discovered another level. It seems there are endless levels of awakening, of consciousness expanding; and yet, there's only One—there is the unformed. From the unformed we create what we call reality through saying yes or no.
Saniel Bonder: You're asking for what amounts to (a) a rationale for profoundly tantric, nonexclusive, genuinely liberating dharma and practice, or (b) a rationalization for why contemporary Western seekers need to be let off the hook that many of our Eastern forebears have swung from for lifetimes. I'll shoot for (a).
The phrase "self-acceptance" seems to imply resigning yourself to karmic limits. I prefer the term "greenlighting," which, as in Hollywood, gets real changes going. I welcome people to greenlight their limited egos and even the sense of separateness instead of chronically wasting energy fighting all that. For every Olympic spiritual gymnast who proclaims that he's blown the moon of ego out of his sky and now there's only sunshine, there are thousands of people (excuse the pun) mooning around!—wishing they could have really done it; practically, or actually, giving up hope of ever transcending the vise of separateness, which still grips them day and night.
What needs to die is separateness. Not "I-ness" itself. "I" is just the natural, organizing function of individual personhood. We need it to navigate space-time—even in dreams and visions. "I" can't blow "your" nose. Limited, egoic "I-ness" is OK. It's also not identical to chronically suffered separateness. And I suggest that it's possible, and much more natural and feasible, to transcend the separateness—and thus to enter fundamentally liberated existence—without assuming it's necessary in advance, or ever, to flatline the thinking mind, banish reactive emotions, exterminate "I-ness," and always be gloriously blissful no matter what!
Transmission of the fundamentally nonseparate, nonexclusive state is crucial. You can then template on an awakened helper's radiant nature and, with good counsel and wise friends, greenlight your heroic, tantric identification with your previously cut off, detested, shadow parts. But you don't get reduced to just being all that. You get to recognize it. Your own infinite conscious nature is cooking alive and awake, so you're suddenly noticing what has made you tick in separateness all along, in ways you never could have before. And you get more and more confident that your "I" and all its stuff cannot sabotage your awakening into integral, nonseparate freedom of Being.
That awakening, when it occurs, is not perfection. Paradoxically, it's not without limited "I-ness." It also detonates a massive, endless, spontaneous transformation of that local self and all its parts. But nobody I know who's gone through it would trade it in!
Is it the Western view: Self Acceptance, the Eastern view: Ego Death or both or neither?
The following question was presented by Carter Phipps to 4 renowned spiritual teachers: Deepak Chopra, Cheri Huber, Paul Lowe and Saniel Bonder. (full article: Enlightennext Magazine http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j17/self_acceptance.asp)
Question: The goal of traditional spiritual teachings has generally been understood to be ego death—the final destruction of our attachment to a separate sense of self. But in today's rapidly evolving spiritual culture, what is often taught as the means to liberation is not ego death, but self-acceptance—acceptance of every aspect of ourselves, including our egos. The message of self-acceptance has become increasingly popular and is now commonly seen by spiritual teachers from almost every tradition to be the most effective and holistic way to address the suffering of contemporary Western spiritual seekers. As someone who works closely with many seekers, guiding them on the delicate and subtle path to liberation, why do you emphasize the importance of self-acceptance in the pursuit of spiritual freedom?
Deepak Chopra: When people get in touch with themselves, they become aware that the inner core of their being contains opposing energies. The human soul, because of its karmic baggage, is a place of ambiguity. It is a place where sinner and saint, the sacred and the profane, the divine and the diabolical coexist in seed form. When we get in touch with this part of ourselves and accept it for what it is, we simultaneously lose the need to judge others. Christ said, "He who is without sin shall cast the first stone." I believe what he was saying was that self-acceptance makes us compassionate, forgiving and nonjudgmental of others. This is the first stage of liberation.
Cheri Huber: "Kill the ego" is a phrase that is easily misinterpreted. Who is identifying "ego"? Who is killing whom? Who is seeing whom as the problem? Who is right and who is wrong? Who is making these decisions? There are two things we can count on where egocentricity is concerned—One: It is very clever; Two: Its only job is survival. Ego will take anything—ANYTHING—and use it for its purposes, even the notion of killing/ dissolving/ transcending/ accepting itself. You can see the danger, spiritually speaking, of misinterpreting "kill the ego."
These words are interchangeable: I, ego, egocentricity, conditioning, karma, suffering. The definition they share is that they are the illusion of a self that is separate.
I offer this as a working definition of self-acceptance: The realization that there is nothing separate—from All That Is, from "God," from Essence. It is the moment-by-moment living awareness that the self who struggles is not who we are but is, instead, karmic conditioning, a learned response to life, a survival system that served us as children but has lost its efficacy for us as adults and now needs to be appreciated, embraced and relieved of its job.
The desire to get rid of ego is very different from ceasing to identify with a karmically driven, egocentric, socially conditioned illusion of a separate self. The first implies a contest: Ego is charged with killing ego; ego battles with ego; ego wins! The second implies letting go of the illusion of control; it is the end of struggle, and the means to that end is awareness.
The processes that I teach for ceasing to identify with conditioning are threefold: pay attention, believe nothing, take nothing personally. I don't actually teach self-acceptance. I encourage people to see that the things they believe about themselves are not true. When you see through all that you have been taught to believe, when you realize who you are, self-acceptance becomes irrelevant.
All suffering is held in place by false beliefs. All beliefs are false. What is, is. Believing it is not helpful. Believing is what the illusory separate self does to maintain an existence outside the present moment. The process of not taking any of this personally allows us to see that we are all in the same boat. We can take responsibility for ending suffering, but we don't have to blame ourselves for being born into it.
Paul Lowe: If I emphasize self-acceptance it is because it is the deepest level of the spiritual path I have found that people will allow me to share with them. I have not found people who are ready to share at the level of, let's say, radiating nothing. When I share more deeply, it is not about self-acceptance, it is just being, including everything, with awareness.
This is not new. Jesus said, "Take no thought of the morrow, let the morrow take care of itself." It is an inclusive, positive approach, and to me, it is living what IS real. Is it good or bad? Does it benefit or harm? It just is!On one level we have the illusion that there is an ego; on another level there is no ego. It is the same with self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is still a movement away from what is. At a certain level of realization, there is no self; therefore, self-acceptance does not exist.
We think we can accept or not accept, but the fact is: Existence is existence and we can either say yes or no to it. With "no" we go into the mind and conditioning, whether it is Christian conditioning or the new waves of Eastern influence. But when we live a total, unconditional "yes" to what is happening, we evolve.
Science says we use five percent of our brain and experience one-billionth of reality. People who have entered the depths of Eastern wisdom tell us there is much more. And there is. We get there by being ourselves, unconditionally, in each moment. And the method I have found most supportive is absolute ruthless honesty with yourself, and when you are ready, sharing the truth with others. Be in the truth of each moment—all that you are sensing in the body, thinking in the mind, feeling with the emotions. Don't suppress it and don't support it. Be with what is.I have come to see that this focus on enlightenment is outdated. It was a goal for a while; it gave us something to head for. But enlightenment is another myth, another idea of God, something outside of ourselves to look toward to comfort ourselves.
In my search I have often felt, "This is it!"—and then discovered another level. It seems there are endless levels of awakening, of consciousness expanding; and yet, there's only One—there is the unformed. From the unformed we create what we call reality through saying yes or no.
Saniel Bonder: You're asking for what amounts to (a) a rationale for profoundly tantric, nonexclusive, genuinely liberating dharma and practice, or (b) a rationalization for why contemporary Western seekers need to be let off the hook that many of our Eastern forebears have swung from for lifetimes. I'll shoot for (a).
The phrase "self-acceptance" seems to imply resigning yourself to karmic limits. I prefer the term "greenlighting," which, as in Hollywood, gets real changes going. I welcome people to greenlight their limited egos and even the sense of separateness instead of chronically wasting energy fighting all that. For every Olympic spiritual gymnast who proclaims that he's blown the moon of ego out of his sky and now there's only sunshine, there are thousands of people (excuse the pun) mooning around!—wishing they could have really done it; practically, or actually, giving up hope of ever transcending the vise of separateness, which still grips them day and night.
What needs to die is separateness. Not "I-ness" itself. "I" is just the natural, organizing function of individual personhood. We need it to navigate space-time—even in dreams and visions. "I" can't blow "your" nose. Limited, egoic "I-ness" is OK. It's also not identical to chronically suffered separateness. And I suggest that it's possible, and much more natural and feasible, to transcend the separateness—and thus to enter fundamentally liberated existence—without assuming it's necessary in advance, or ever, to flatline the thinking mind, banish reactive emotions, exterminate "I-ness," and always be gloriously blissful no matter what!
Transmission of the fundamentally nonseparate, nonexclusive state is crucial. You can then template on an awakened helper's radiant nature and, with good counsel and wise friends, greenlight your heroic, tantric identification with your previously cut off, detested, shadow parts. But you don't get reduced to just being all that. You get to recognize it. Your own infinite conscious nature is cooking alive and awake, so you're suddenly noticing what has made you tick in separateness all along, in ways you never could have before. And you get more and more confident that your "I" and all its stuff cannot sabotage your awakening into integral, nonseparate freedom of Being.
That awakening, when it occurs, is not perfection. Paradoxically, it's not without limited "I-ness." It also detonates a massive, endless, spontaneous transformation of that local self and all its parts. But nobody I know who's gone through it would trade it in!
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Inner Peace Through Inner Silence
We are a progressive species, a species that adapts effortlessly to change and diversity. This can be both good and bad. While evolution is necessary to achieve higher states of technology and competitive edge, (what we view as power), it is the focused attention on this power that causes us to lose sight of many other evolutionary benefits.
Humans are incredible in that we encompass more than just instinct and intellectual capacity, we encompass a wide range of emotions and feelings as well. Further fascinating is our ability to discern how we feel, differentiating good from bad, what feels right from what feels wrong. We are able to think and choose and express. It is a shame that we have learned over the years through discipline to push these innate abilities into our background.
Parents and educators are relentless in their plights to teach us that it is a “dog eat dog” world out there, “survival of the fittest” is echoed through the classrooms and homes alike. We are bombarded through instruction and imagery; to have the best possible house, car, clothes etc.... We are coached to say to ourselves (until we actually believe it), “I am the best, I am better than you, I deserve this, I deserve that”. As parents we do this out of love, we know it is competitive out there, we guide to help ensure our children succeed. Isn’t that what we all want, for our children to succeed? I guess my apprehension lies within the definition of “success”. But that’s another day, another blog.
Let’s get back to our inner peace, because let’s face it - we all live in this world, and even though it may not function ideally we must deal with it in its’ present state. So how do we do that, how do we handle the stresses and find peace within?
I propose we listen to our inner silence. So what is inner silence and how do we listen to it? Funny question isn’t it? Sounds like an oxy-moron doesn’t it?! How can you listen to something that is not talking? First let’s define the difference between outward silence and inner silence.
Outward silence is the cessation of clatter and noise, where all things are quiet. Inner silence is similar in that your mind is free from clatter and noise, where your thoughts are quieted. So how do we quiet our mind when it is said that the human mind is incapable of not thinking, at least on the subconscious level. We have, on average, 55,ooo thoughts per day, (to which more than 80% are about our own needs, wants, and concerns).
It is my view that quieting the mind does not mean a profound stillness, an empty void without thoughts. It is about discerning the clatter, filtering the noise and quieting the hustle and bustle.
Take a moment to concentrate on your breathing, feel the air come in and out of your lungs. Feel your heart gently pound, listen to the sounds in your ears, the pitches. Let your thoughts come and go freely. Take the time to actually listen and think about what you are thinking. It's really not as complex as it reads. Soon enough these thoughts will fade into the background, you will become in touch with your being. Once you have reached this point, (and it takes but minutes to get to this point), your inner silence will manifest itself through thoughts and ideas. Perhaps this is a perfect time to ask yourself a question now that you have your minds’ focused attention. Normally we get messages as thoughts throughout the day, seemingly random. You’ll be surprised at such a direct route for an answer, being able to discern “on the spot” a direction as well as your next step. How amazing does it sound to be able to get the direction and answers you seek through this simple technique?
Without judgment, allow your silence to manifest the answers without question. Trust that your inner silence is your true nature, your true self, realizing it has always been here.
Download 30 minute guided mediatation:
http://ia600309.us.archive.org/28/items/FollowingTheBreathAndObservingTheBodyMeditation/FollowingTheBreathAndObservingTheBody.mp3
Namaste
Living in the Present
What does it mean to live in the present... where do I begin?
It is my view that to live in the present means that our awareness is always on the here and now. We are neither thinking of the past nor worrying about the future. Some schools of thought go as far as to say that the past and future are illusions, they don’t exist, are only a concept. Whoa! That is mind boggling but it would seem to be in keeping with the saying "tomorrow never comes”.
How often do we worry about things that have not yet come? My question is - will they even happen? Isn't it only our perception that future events will occur the way we imagine them to? How much time is spent on this stressful and potentially destructive pasttime? How often do we look backwards to our past mistakes, reliving events in our mind, what we could have done differently, "shoulda, woulda, coulda...yada yada yada."
I'm not saying we shouldn't reflect for learning purposes but more accurately closer to my belief would be the question I pose to you - were they really mistakes? I love this all encompassing saying "everything is as it should be". Were we not given obstacles and stumbling blocks but for a reason - for our teachings? Ah, the beautiful complexity of life!
I propose, when something happens that you perceive to be a "mistake" or something has gone "wrong" in your life that you RECOGNIZE it in the PRESENT. Rather that look backwards I propose that we deal fully with it in the present. stop... assess... find the lesson or message in it... smile... move on... don't dwell
Living in the present, means to accept your life as it is now, not as how you wish it would have been. When it comes to past "mistakes" living in the present is about acceptance and forgiveness. About forgiving yourself in the now for any perceived mistakes made, thus allowing peace of mind, heart and soul.
I am not suggesting lack of accountability, I suggest we deal with things as they happen. When we deal with things as they happen we find closure. With closure we find no need to rehash old events. We all know what it feels like to be stressed. I rhink if we can relate stress to lack of closure then we can combat stress, and we all know that stress has a detrimental impact on our health.
Similarly is worrying about the future. If we don't live in the present then we are in essence giving up our personal control. When we worry about the future we are living somewhere that doesn’t exist, it hasn’t happened yet. If we want control over our own life then the only place we can do this is in the present. Important to mention here is our need to accept our life as it is.
Why were we given the ability to look backwards at the past as well as the conception to predict the future? Human nature is so complex, this is beyond my scope today.
I read somewhere that the reason we have such a hard time living in the present is because we have difficulty quieting our mind, our thoughts. We constantly talk to ourselves, thus how can we really listen?
Is it infantile to suggest that we stay firmly planted in reality? I mean, when our thoughts are constantly firing, when we are more in our mind than in the present - aren't we more in a place of conceptualization? Balance is key I suppose, just enough conceptualization to allow creativity but also enough reality to ground us in the here and now.
Just this year I got 2 tattoos referring to balance. My Yin Yang tattoo I had put on my inner wrist. I choose this visual location so as to remind myself daily to recognize the balance in everything, the constant flow of harmony.
The best advice I can offer about living in the present is what most holistic teachers call practicing mindfulness. This means perpetual awareness. Being constantly aware of what we are doing, saying, feeling, being. An example is when doing the dishes or hammering a nail - feel the dish water, hear the slam of the hammer. Don't busy your mind with what else needs to be done or that phone call that needs to be made.
Live in each and moment!
Namaste
The Ubuntu Philosophy is One of Unity
Recently I was at a memorial service where they incorporated into thier opening greeting a wonderful African view. This view was introduced as Ubuntu. The Ubuntu philosophy is one of unity. The way they descibed Ubuntu in relation to this memorial service was that when one person feels pain, everyone feels that same pain.
It was explained that in some parts of the world, typically African tribes, when a person is greeted with a "hello, how are you", that person will reply, "we are well". It is this WE that best describes Ubuntu.
It is interesting how parts of this same world have moved so far away from this concept of oneness.
How is it that so many cultures agree that unity is the key, yet typically function through an "I" philosophy? How did we get so far off track? Is it as simple, yet complex, as the ego? Is it our wants and desires that cloud our judgements? Better question is, does the obtaining of these wants and desires insulate us from fear, giving us a false sense of control? Could it be that this "I" philosophy merely stems from our fears of losing control? If we could all live the following quote, would we not be better off as a culture, a nation, a world?
"A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or oppressed" ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Ubuntu, oneness, unity, whatever you choose to call it, may seem easy enough but look once again at the description above, is it easy? When all around us we see selfishness, cowardness, filth, oppression, racism, ignorance, how can it be easy? It takes strength to stand up against what is beside each and every one of us.
I'll end this blog with an analogy that is fitting to Ubuntu. "A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken" ~ Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee
I choose to be one of the many straws on this global broom of unity.
Namaste
Manifestation & Feelings
As written by Rev Ann Ahokangas (Article published in Creative Thought Magazine, Dec2010)
The answer to every prayer is in the prayer itself. When we pray, "I need more money because I am broke," the Law of Mind says yes to needing more money and being broke.
Knowing Spirit works through us, as us, the power for transformation and change is right where we are. What we focus on grows.
Getting in touch with how we will feel when our current situation is transformed for the better is a powerful point of attraction. Feeling that way now, as though we are already there, and seeing it in our mind's eye sets the Law of Mind into immediate action. The Universe is not judgmental. It is unchanging, predictable Principle.
Let's say we desire to win the lottery. Even a five-dollar prize is considered winning. It is more effective to explore what is beneath our initial desire.
In the case of the lottery, what we likely want is to feel safe and secure and able to have all our needs met easily. This is the point of power. The Universe may not provide us with the winning ticket, but we will receive the equivalent of our desired feelings in manifest form. The how may look very different from winning millions of dollars, but Spirit demonstrates our good nonetheless.
We are free to think as we please. No one else has power over our thoughts. We may have to act a certain way to conform at home or in the workplace, but our thoughts are under our control.
In the Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, Dr. Ernest Holmes wrote:
"If your thinking processes are really under your personal control, as you will agree they must be, and if thought is acted upon by the Creativity of Mind producing results according to your belief, then you surely do have the power to become the master of your own affairs and to bring to pass those good conditions you desire".
Prosperity and abundance are present everywhere at all times. There is always more than enough for everyone. If we have been thinking there is not enough, we naturally receive "not enoughBegin today by using your faculties and imagination to see the good as already yours. How will you feel when all your needs are met? Go ahead and feel that way now. Remember, what you put into Spirit, you get back.
The answer to every prayer is in the prayer itself. When we pray, "I need more money because I am broke," the Law of Mind says yes to needing more money and being broke.
Knowing Spirit works through us, as us, the power for transformation and change is right where we are. What we focus on grows.
Getting in touch with how we will feel when our current situation is transformed for the better is a powerful point of attraction. Feeling that way now, as though we are already there, and seeing it in our mind's eye sets the Law of Mind into immediate action. The Universe is not judgmental. It is unchanging, predictable Principle.
Let's say we desire to win the lottery. Even a five-dollar prize is considered winning. It is more effective to explore what is beneath our initial desire.
In the case of the lottery, what we likely want is to feel safe and secure and able to have all our needs met easily. This is the point of power. The Universe may not provide us with the winning ticket, but we will receive the equivalent of our desired feelings in manifest form. The how may look very different from winning millions of dollars, but Spirit demonstrates our good nonetheless.
We are free to think as we please. No one else has power over our thoughts. We may have to act a certain way to conform at home or in the workplace, but our thoughts are under our control.
In the Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, Dr. Ernest Holmes wrote:
"If your thinking processes are really under your personal control, as you will agree they must be, and if thought is acted upon by the Creativity of Mind producing results according to your belief, then you surely do have the power to become the master of your own affairs and to bring to pass those good conditions you desire".
Prosperity and abundance are present everywhere at all times. There is always more than enough for everyone. If we have been thinking there is not enough, we naturally receive "not enoughBegin today by using your faculties and imagination to see the good as already yours. How will you feel when all your needs are met? Go ahead and feel that way now. Remember, what you put into Spirit, you get back.
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