The Screen of the Mind

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.-Viktor Frankl

With all the techniques that I have learned over the years, there are still experiences that throw me off balance.  These are the times when I fall into the sleep of the illusion.  I allow the pendulum of duality to swing to the negative and permit my thoughts to start snowballing about the injustices and stupidities of life and the world.  I lose control of my imagination and ultimately my state of being.  I engage in a monologue with an imaginary scenario playing out a drama on the stage of my mind.  All the time I am forgetting that I have the power to change the story. 

Instead, I cruise along thinking I have control of the situation by playing out this imaginary play in my mind.  It’s a horrid little drama filled with worst case scenarios, unsavoury characters and the dominant underlying emotions are fear, anger and worry.  The worst part of this is that when I catch myself I know I am using my imagination to create more of that which I say I do not want.  Yet, somehow I remain unconscious and fall back into old patterns of reiteration.  I forget about the power of now. I lose the gratitude of the moment and get lost in past happenings, old moments influencing the present, clouding my judgement and projecting a future filled with a drama I do not want. 

The Law of Free Will

It is easier to create the effect because the effect depends totally upon you; the cause may not be so dependent on you.—OSHO

Simply put, you have the freedom to do, be or have anything you want. It is your right here on Planet Earth.  There is however one caveat to this law which most people prefer to leave out.  The Law of Free Will works in conjunction with the Law of Cause and Effect which states:  For every action there is a corresponding reaction.  On the spiritual level this law is reversed...with free will the effect becomes the cause.

You do, say or feel something and energy goes out and combines with other energies.  They intermingle and the Law of Serendipity takes over bringing you encounters or circumstances which match your state of being.  Change your state of being and you end up down an entirely different path.  Align your Free Will with Divine Love and you create a powerhouse.  Align your Free Will with your own stubbornness of having it your way and the results can sometimes be either mediocre or dismal.

Navigating Through Contrast

The Joy is in the Journey
Watercolour by Beverly Blanchard

If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration. - Nikola Tesla

There is nothing worst then when you are stuck in a funk and someone comes along and says, ‘You create own reality.’  It is not something you really want to hear.  You want someone to listen to your problems, to sympathize with you and tell you it is all going to be alright.  Yet that type of conversation doesn’t really serve you and in many cases, keeps the negative vibration active.  The more you talk about the problem, the more you attract similar vibrations and the further you get from the solution.

We are all born with an internal guidance system.  Similar to a GPS, it is a system that helps us navigate through our ever changing world.  Unfortunately it is a navigation system we rarely understand or utilize. 

Within each of us there is an inner being, soul, source energy or core energy.  Call it what you like, the name is not really important.  What is important is the fact that this is your guidance system.  It tells you whether what you are thinking or feeling is aligned with your inner being. When you are aligned with your inner being, you feel good.  When you are ornery or complaining, you are not aligned with your inner being.  Now this is not necessarily a bad thing.  All it means is that you are exploring contrast and determining what it is you want.   Without knowing what it is you don’t want, how can you turn in the direction of what it is you do want?

The dilemma for most of us is that we end up stuck in the negative thinking and emotions.  Somewhere we have been conditioned to think that the more we complain or worry about a situation, the closer we will come to a solution. We are told to talk about what is and told that talking about what we want is fantasy thinking. In reality however our focus on what we don’t want ends up splitting our energy.

The reason for this is once we have identified what we want our inner being moves to the solution.  Synchronistic encounters, serendipity and other cooperative situations begin to line up for us.  But, if we are over here beating the drum of what we don’t want and feeling lousy we don’t meet up with the opportunities.

Instead we end splitting our energy.  Our inner being is over there enjoying what we want, and we are over here complaining and feeling lousy.  Since the negative emotion becomes the dominant vibration you get more of what it is you don’t want and you hold yourself away from the solution.  When this happens most of us get into the blame game.

So how do you work with your emotional guidance system?

It is important to recognize that your inner being will never join you in a pity party.  Your friends may join you but your inner being won’t.  The focus of your inner being is on expansion and love.

One of the first things you can do is become aware of what your emotions are telling you.  If you have strong negative emotion it is an indicator that you’re thinking thoughts which are not in alignment with your inner being.  So ask yourself, ‘what thoughts am I thinking?’  Once you identify the dominant thinking pattern ask yourself, ‘what thoughts could I think that will make me feel better?’   Make it a game and start looking for an addiction to a better feeling thought.

Let yourself off the hook.  We live in a vibrational universe and what happened yesterday stays in yesterday.  You can’t change yesterday but you have this moment to move yourself up the emotional vibrational scale.  You have the choice between miserable and happy.  Look for something in your life that will bring you to happiness.

Use the mantra:  Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters.  What state of being do I want to feel right now?

 

Guilt-The Manmade Emotion

Today's post is from my unpublished manuscript entitled, "Is this Happiness?" I decided that perhaps the dialogue between Alexis and her spirit guide could best describe how guilt keeps us small.

Bald Eagle
Charcoal Sketch by Beverly Blanchard

 

Bald Eagle was punctual as usual.  At exactly seven o’clock, he materialized in the living room startling Alexis who had somehow expected him to use the door.  Bald Eagle laughed as he materialized, “I figured I do not have to bother using the door any more.  We Spirits really prefer to just appear.  Walking through doors gets the neighbors talking.  So, how was your day?”

“Interesting.  Had breakfast with my friend Robert, and we had a conversation which left me wondering whether I have been practicing love or guilt?  You see, Robert met this woman who said that if you think you are surrendering to love, you are actually surrendering to guilt because love needs no surrender.  Well, if that is the case, then most of what I thought was love, has actually been love laced with guilt.”  She held a serious look of disbelief on her face.

“Ahhh, so, I see you have discovered your second worst antagonist, the contrast of guilt.  Guilt will make you feel lousy; every single time you allow it to visit.  It pushes in on you, and the more you back up, the more it keeps pushing in on you.  When it finally has you cornered, and you are fighting for your life, guilt empowered by the fight turns to fear.  Wherever there is guilt, fear is not too far behind.  Oh and, guilt is an insidious creature that destroys love, and creates suffering.  You cannot have love, if you have guilt.  They cannot exist in the same place, their energies are not compatible and they defy the Universal Laws.  It is a state of mind, and in your world it has been long thought to be loving intent.  Loving intent it is not.  It is the gap in the universe that seeks to deny your true response to a situation.  Guilt is not caused by what happened, but how you relate to what happened.  It reinforces the feelings of not being okay if you allow your true vibration, your true alignment with Source Energy to shine forth.  Guilt is one of your society’s greatest control mechanisms and it is used to widen the gap between Source Energy and yourself.  As with fear, there are really two types of guilt.”

“So, there are two?”  She had never thought about the different aspects of guilt. Was there actually a good side to guilt?

“Almost always are two types in everything.  Helps to keep you confused.” he grinned.  “One type is thought of as real guilt, but, in actuality it is better to call it regret.  It is when you hurt someone or the possessions of someone and you truly feel sorry for your indiscretion.  The dialogue in your head is one which usually focuses on what you could have done differently, and how you are sorry for what you did.  Regret is almost always instructive.  You learn from it.  Now the real, true guilt is of a self-imposed behaviour.  You decide that you have done something that may have caused hurt or pain to someone else.  It is based on a measure of mind reading, and a mental guess on your part that an action, thought, or even a word caused harm to another.  The dialogue in your head usually goes something like this... ‘Why did I do that?’  ‘Why could not I do more?’  ‘If only, I was better, nicer, kinder, warmer, compassionate, caring....  You end up beating yourself up with an over obtrusive voice reproaching you over and over again in your mind for something you may not have actually done.  For some of you humans, it can actually become debilitating.  Understand the difference?”

“Yes, I do.  Hey, why don’t they teach you this stuff in school?”

Bald Eagle keeled over in convulsions of laughter, leaving Alexis staring at him in a somewhat stunned disbelief.  She thought it was an innocent enough question, yet, Bald Eagle seemed to find it extraordinarily humorous.  When he finally could contain his laughter, he exclaimed, “Because then they would empower you!  Once you understand your true connection, and the power of operating in alignment with Source Energy there is only empowerment.  No guilt. No fear.  There is no need for controls.  Think what that would do to all your government systems and other institutions in your world.”

“I never thought of it like that.  I guess we have been living for so long with this concept that we are all powerless.  We are all slaves to the systems that govern and control us.  The systems that promise to protect us if we give them our power.  Only we hand over our power, and there is no security.  Instead we find they lied to us, and used guilt and fear to control us.”  She looked somewhat shocked at what she had just said.  The picture of the world she was living within was becoming clearer.  Handing over her power was not giving her any more security and protection.  It was limiting her.