May 2011

May 31, 2011

Realize the moments

"What is all of history; what are all the tales of personal drama? Where does the story of life go when the last sunset falls on the life of a man? Is one story worth being told to the annuals more than another? What good are the tales of your life? What is the point?

The point is what each of us takes with us. Nothing else matters. What have you experienced to enrich your soul? What have you done to enrich one another? And of the two, what have you learned about your place in existence?

So, to some this sounds a trifle; a pointless blurp in the flow of forgotten time... But we tell you now, what value does a mother place on child's first laugh? What treasure is a first love? How glorious is the sunrise over the mountains or the sunset over the ocean? How does your heart swell when life is rescued from tragedy? These types of experiences are limitless in emotional glory and are but a drop in the bucket of the subtle glories of life!

Realize the moment that you are not alone. You, are each, lights in the darkness of self realization. Realize and be aware of your place in each others life. Only together in companionship can you share in the individual joys off all that is..."

---Voices of Spirit

Understanding unbound life

"The power of your experience lays in your understanding of it's meaning. Nothing can exist outside of it's own understanding. To do otherwise is to move without purpose, without true life.-- If so, then you live life for others purposes within their understanding. Live life for your own purpose and seek to understand it. All seek to understand experience. It defines them, it rules them. It drives creation. Humans seeks to label and categorize this process. But in doing so they limit their personal visions. They hobble their dreams with measured boxes of bound order. But the gift of light does not go forth from All Creation, from Source, from God in confined lines of context. No, it radiates in ever expanding waves of creative emotional thought. What limit will you allow this in your life? Mirror the waves of creation. Let it expand from you in unbound radiation. It is better to feel expanding love in ignorance than to bind oneself in ignorant self assurance. Truly new growth only comes from unbound light, unbound nutrition, and Divine love. Love will grow in bound containers but bound love is limited and experience is narrow. "

---Voices of Spirit

May 29, 2011

I updated my article on imagination and channeling with a message from Spirit. See article here. Imagine channeling

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Here is another message from Spirit.

"There was a hunger inside you, before you were born. It moved you to seek a place to eat. You longed to feast and sustain it. After you were born, you forgot this but still you were famished. You thought this might be thirsts of the flesh and you wondered if you could ever quench your urges. You lamented and tore your mind in search for satisfying your hungers. Some of you found nourishment, Some starved in search of nutrition. But for many, only after death did you realize all the while it was life you feasted on. Some to fast, some to gorge, and some found balanced meals. In the end all that was hungered for was satisfied. In the end you dreamed again for further meals of the flavors of life..."

--- Voices of Spirit.

May 28, 2011

Quotes from Native American Leader "Black Elk".

(On the nature of the Universe)

"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men."

"Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions"

"You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see."

"Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one."

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."

"The Holy Land is everywhere"

"Behold this day. It is yours to make."

May 27, 2011

Would you rather get what you want or what you need? Would either of these fix some aspect of yourself? Which would you give up if you had to pick; need or want? You might not know which would be better. But; When you know that you are neither of these; They are nothing but unfilled cycles of desire; They will not change who you are. Who you are is the feeling inside you in this present moment... Only then can you move into a peace of knowing that is happiness.

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Imagination is an access point to clairvoyant vision... And so much of what we visualize becomes real based on perspective belief and intent. Real is what it all means to the viewer and reality is what we do with it.

May 27, 2011

How to achieve your Spiritual Goals:

Plan: -- Before you begin, you should have a sense of knowing where you are starting from. What, how, how much do you know? What have you tried already? Why? How did that make you feel? What more do you want? Who am I? The more questions you have the better. It reveals how open you are, and suggests the most possibilities of your exerperiences. But that doesn't mean you have to leave yourself out in the far field wandering away. Just pick something that intrests you. Pick that which you feel passion about. Pick that which bring you joy!

Do: -- Go. Just do it.. So much of the time we loose steam. We get distracted. We loose drive. Our will power somehow seems to shrivel up and die. What was lofty and glorious plans; what was burning excitement and uplifted spirit gets flushed in a downward spiral of self indulgence and personal comforts. Nothing worth having appeared without at least a bit of strong intent. Now take that intent and swallow it. Just let it burn..... At first you may feel guilt over focusing so hard on it. But this inner struggle IS more than half the battle! Very often, in 20/20 hind-sight- IT, will have been the true experience. This is because you are creating the emotion, the drive, the original creative moment that will define your experience. This moment will add to who you are! Once you Do, Go, Try, Try again, Keep going; It will add something to your inner being that no one can take away from you. Never loose faith in what you are capable of. And never ever fear to ask for help.

Review: -- When you catch your breath. When you look back on action you took, (or did not take); Pause and contemplate what happened. Where were you? What did you do? What did you learn about yourself? What did you learn about others? About the world around you? Did anyone teach you anything? How would you have done it differently? If there was nothing you could have done differently, how would you change your thinking? How do you feel about each one of these things? And Lastly, what about the experience are you grateful for? And if it's all just too much and you don't know... then it's OK to say, I need to let it go for now and move on...... There is no time limit on looking back.

So all said and done. Take your Spiritual goals by single steps. Step by step by step. Plan, do, and review. If you get overwhelmed. Do one part of the whole at a time. Baby steps will reach a destination the same as leaps. You must learn to crawl before you can walk. You walk before you can run. And once you get into the zone of running, anything is possible. Be it running with balls, leaps and bounds, or even flying! Work hard, try again, and never give up.

May 26, 2011

Somthing I think about from time to time... I have to ask myself... When was the last time I said? Sometimes I just feel overwhelmed with:

'I don't know.'

'I was wrong.'

'I want help.'

'I don't understand.'

Spirit Message:

"You think that you understand, but you know nothing. How then can you guide others?

They too think they understand, but know nothing. Together, you flounder. To flounder is an experience. When floundering ceases, you will think that you understand, but you will know nothing. When you understand that you know nothing then you have gained much from your experience of floundering and may then cease to guide others.Together you may then experience, without floundering."

---A Spirit guide I deeply respect (FC)----http://www.spirit-lodge-diary.blogspot.com/

May 25, 2011

Reflections all.

"All states of existence, all perception, all belief, all understanding, all knowing are illusion outside God Sources own Being.

Your realities are but a reflection of that in Spirit. You exist only through the quality, the clarity of this reflection. You depend on the view of this refraction, it's unique vision, and perception. You seek recognition in the vision of your life.

Behind the veil of flesh your eyes only have the ability to see certain light. An incomplete spectrum cast upon poorly understood matter floating in a sea of unbound energies attracted to thought and emotion.

The strain of seeking the totality of all of this creates a sense of lost wandering of self fulfilling desire that is only quenched on the return to your true selves under the light of the ALL.

To wake from this illusionary state of being and realize that aspect of ourselves that is the source of the reflections is the opening of the knocked door, the return of memories that will bring understanding of our desires. The desire of God to know." ---- Voices of Spirit

The return to purpose.

"To the newly returned (to Heaven); come the fruits of desire. Self created illusions form realities of idealized wishes. This comes naturally as Spirit takes takes time to reconnect to the totality of it's soul-scape. Sudden enlightenment is not desired for then exploration of the self would not be possible. The nuances of knowing would be unfailing. As their energy departs the mortal coil it hungers for what was dreamed of inside the former life. This is passion bound with threaded thought and intensive emotion. It becomes the burning will, but it is a will of the past and is illusion within only a fragment of all you are. But do not fear, this is only transitory. Once your passions, desires, and expressions are worked out you will understand that progression is incomplete. You will desire more. Upon which point this world too, will melt away in second death and you will be reborn yet again with self evaluated purpose. It is within this purpose that you seek new experiences to explore who you are. It is only when you fully embrace and let the awareness of who you are, what you are, and all the possibilities granted to you are you able to move on to ever greater purposes." --- Voices of Spirit

May 24, 2011

"How you react to your experience. That is is the point of your power. What you perceive of the experience will form your belief. Your belief will define your experiences. How you choose to think about all this will define you.

Your reality can be an illusion of your making or a prison of circumstance. The choice is always yours. Either now or in the hereafter... Why wait. Choose now. The wheel of life on the spoke of love can be driven or it can ride you into the dirt. Steer clear of self created labels on an incomplete map. Open yourself up to a path that serves your greatest good.

Often the best path is to simply be aware of your thoughts. Your mind will make every effort to make rushed leaps of mental associations. Left to run rampet they will carry you away. Giving control to the lower ego of rampet emotion. Not that such passions are bad, but that they keep you from contemplating your experiences.

Then you are left with raw emotion or others defining your existence. To keep yourself from this can be done by simply deciding that other labels are not in your best interest. That contemplation on your reality is better."---My Spirit Teacher, Z

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Random musing: The power to change life can be about exploring emotion.

I was thinking about this on the bus last night. Thinking: how much of my life is spent re-hashing and mulling thoughts over why I don't like the way I feel. Which then my Spirit Teacher popped in and we had a little discussion...

"People always say focus on what you want rather than what you don't want. This is because what you focus on is what you will experience. But many times, what we don't want is really a certain emotion applied to an experience. i.e....

"I feel bad; I feel shame; I feel guilt; I feel pain; I feel betrayed; I don't like...etc." --about or over some aspect of our behaviors or thoughts. This can be an intensive self creating thought that is full of original creative thoughts. So since we are focusing so hard on it we will usually experience more of it.

This becomes something about ourselves we are not comfortable with... WHY?

.. WHY, is the key. We must fully explore and understand the root of our feelings to become comfortable with them. Until then we will have difficulty changing a feeling we don't like.

And sometimes we let others tell us what we don't like or how we feel. This could be through, Action, words, culture, beliefs, society and all culminating in discomfort for us. This is because when we look closer we actually desire that which makes us uncomfortable.... why... why... why...

Sometimes it is because the cause of the feeling actually describes us. It is currently a part of who we are. In some way it has become fundamental to our state of being. Now whether this is desired or not totally depends on what you want or what you allow others to create in your reality.

Right or wrong is irrelevant when placed against how all this makes you feel and what if anything you wish to do about it. Sometimes who you really are is just- fine, and, it is where you should be to experience that which you have desired to experience. If so; Then Own It. Other times it is a wake up call to explore and edit your current state of being. This editing will help you increase your awareness, thus enabling you to own or take ownership over how you decide your state of being should be.

Changing your reality can be easy or hard, but if you want to succeed you have to keep at it. Power to change your life comes from conscious awareness and exploration of the self!"

--- Lessons with and from my Spirit Teacher.

May 23, 2011

When you put expectations on Spirit providing evidence that you want for yourself, you very often miss the evidence Spirit felt you needed.

May 19, 2011

"Your reactions to people have a strong spiritual effect. Your Spirit is emotion. It is emotion and thought represented in form. Your feelings channeled through action give an impression of who you are. This can be seen by all in the light of Heaven. Contemplate the intention of your highest self through love. If you can not act on this, then you might withhold your reactions for the greater good." ---Voices of Spirit

May 18, 2011

Random Musings: (rough thoughts on)

Spiritual visitation and the perception of consistency

To all the new blog members and returning blog members and those who are interested. There has been a return of perception of our loved ones in Spirit not being as communicative as we would like. I believe Elisa mentioned that it seems from time to time, that Spiritual visitations by our loved ones seem to tail off....

I'd like to share some of my experience and perceptions on the matter. I've channeled about it before. You can view some of the messages in the previous postings in the forum. But I'd like to share my take on after life visitations.

First, I'd like to say, that I firmly believe based on my experience and research that so called death is just as much about "Process" as anything in our 3D reality. Second, Just as they undergo intensive processes, so too, do we as grievers. These two processes combine and at times along our journey can become quite a tangled mess.

Here are just a 'few' of the steps.

Process:

**Death:

What a poor label... Death is really about transition. Any given life is a tool that the personality of the higher self uses to experience. Personality, spirit, the soul is eternal. The experience of life that the aspect of soul just had never goes away. It is a part of who the entity is. Any attachment made of love, mutual love, or any emotional bond is retained. So much of the time, we view the departing spirit as leaving us. As departed, forever broken, taken from us, separate, and we are left lost behind. Nothing can be further from the truth. We are just as much Spirit as they are. To fully know this and use it as a tool is our forgotten birthright. For us still in the 3D death is the most painful and traumatic events we can experience. Because it is an impact on our emotions and bonds. To the Spirit making the transition is simply stepping on the bus to home. Both parties in the here and here after would be benefited to remember that both view points are tentative and temporary. There is no death and there are no dead.

**Transition:

Unfortunately the "Transition" is different for everyone. It has to be. Because everyone's is different, everyone's situation is different, everyone's experiences are different. Sure there are similarities, sure there are basics. But we in the 3D need to remember and hold in our hearts that ones persons after life communication doesn't have to hold true for another. What influences "knowing, understanding, and perception" of the transition? Belief, awareness, and perception. Within this is knowledge and understanding through experience. As you well know none of this is the same... Which is why we must hold on to patience through love.

** "with" vs/ Tuned into:

This concept is one of the biggest struggles for the incarnate. Specifically when dealing with loved ones in Spirit. Part of this stems from our lack of understanding of locomotion, physics, and communication in the hereafter vs... our 3D reality. When a Spirit first Transitions they will very often be fixated on those in the 3D. This is for a variety of reasons, it could be life review, it could be because of self created reality or genuine affection and love. Or other.... So because of that intensive focus they lower and condense their vibrational energy to move closer to our reality. This enables manifestions that we can precieve. So when this does happen, we get the impression that they are "with us" standing side by side in our reality. And as time passes, depending on our beliefs, perceptions, emotional and spiritual state, the feeling of "with us" will change.... or due to various reasons the Spirit begins to feel that we can no longer precieve them and they loose hope of communication in the near term. So they let go the denser vibration and return to a faster state of being. But, here is where we in the 3D get into trouble.... Thought creates reality. In Spirit most communication is done through emotion and thought. Much of the time, Spirit exists in "states of being" not physical places. So just because we can't physically sense them as we would like, does not mean they are gone from us. ANY emotional thought, transmits instantly. Like a lightening bolt. Unless they are blocking, they will always feel it. Now whether this can be a two way street and get back to us is another matter. There are all sorts of reasons why that may not happen.

**Attempted connection

This is natural. My personal opinion is that neither side should ever give up, where there is a connection based in love. And I believe in most cases, hope never dies. Because most in Spirit realize problems are just temporary. All in love will be reunited eventually. In the beginning of "Transition" the biggest problems involve emotion, perception, and belief. On the incarnates side intensive emotion can at times, create psychic walls that prevents undeveloped Spirit from drawing near. On the dis-incarnate side, the beginning phases of transition are heavily influenced by belief, perception, and experience. That is why some Spirits seem confused, why some seem off running around the universe, why some seem aloof, and others are right there. In any-case, while it's more complicated than that, and involves many more variables, any connection bond in love is retained and communication is attempted. We here in the 3D are best served if we just trust that it is so, and not get discouraged when it doesn't happen as we are aware of or expect.

**One sided communication:

For these reasons and more, communication often seems one sided. This is normal. Heck, this is even true for sensitives of all types. We often feel like communication is heavily one sided and that Spirit only spoon feeds us content... No matter. In the end there are only 2 choices. Keep trying or let it go. In this there is no right or wrong. Because what you think about it is so subjective. How you feel about it and how you participate with such an experience is totally up to you. If nothing else remember that no one person, nor no one spirit has all the answers. In Spirit the entity may persevere by passing along dreams and fleeting manifestations. In 3D you may pray, or talk to Spirit in tentative hesitant wishful hope. A better way is to embrace the concept that you/we are just as much a Spirit as those in the hereafter. If you Know this beyond a shadow of a doubt, communication can move away from one-sided endeavors to the many many methods of two way communication. This is and can be quite the process. Never give up.

**Creating awareness

One of the best ways to over come one sided communication, or heck even no communication is to create and develop our Awareness. This means being aware that we are Spirit having a physical experience. And that the "world" of Spirit is not some other place, but here now. Within us, around us, and all about. Through and through. We are not apart--- but A part of.

But creating and developing this as a daily part of our lives we enable thought and emotional patterns to set themselves up in our lives that facilitate communication. Then we are constantly aware that Spirit has untold methods of communicating with us, we simply need to key into it.

**Maintaining awareness

So now we know that Spirit communication can at times depend on Awareness. And that there are many variables that go into communication. On both sides for different reasons. So that said, one of the most important things we can work on is maintaining awareness that we are Spirit. Where a lot of people get into trouble is that they do not realize that this is an ongoing life long process. There is no right or wrong in this regard, only preserverence. There will be ups and downs, and that is fine. But we need to know the importance of try try again. Because just as we are not unmoving beings, so to with Spirit. It can be a lot of hard work. But in the end you have two choices, ignore Spirit-ignore your journey, or embrace everything possible. So whether you pray, meditate, do energy work, channel, or simply live with mindful intent, it's important, no vital to remember that you are no different that Spirit. You are Spirit and communication is within you. Its a process, There is no easy A in this or any aspect of life. Keep trying.

**Energy

ALL is not but energy. Condensed, contracted, slow, fast, thought is energy and energy is emotional thought. Because of this this there are more manifestations of energy than any incarnate can possibly conceive. When we worry about our energy preventing communication we become lost in a cloud of misunderstanding and incomplete information. Information that in our current form we have not possibility of navigating. So what to do? What we all can do, is hold on to the awareness that energy, thought, and emotion create reality. Simply having the desire to learn about and explore you own personal energy is enough to set you on an appropriate path as it pertains to communication. You will be led to where you need to be. Holding the desire to manifest your Spiritual energy is enough....

**Maintaining vibration

Vibration is just a fancy word for "state of being" or the state of your Spiritual energy. And Energy is always in motion. You are always in motion, a great work of progress on a great journey on the path of your choosing. To maintain that is quite simply the desire to have the greatest sense of personal awareness of your reality as you can within your experience. There are untold ways to work on this. It matters not which one you pick, Simply doing with intent, will set you on your way. This process opens you up to more communication with Spirit.

**Ups and downs of energy

Even so, There are ups and downs of maintaining your energy. This is frequently emotion based. This is normal, natural, and expected. Even on both sides of the veil. There are techniques and things we can do to return to and find balance. Finding balance will make communications easier.

**Callings, work and education.

One aspect of communications not often thought about is that it often depends on understanding of realities. You can't understand something until you know of it. And you can't Know it until you experience it. So with us, so to with Spirit. Communication difficulties can happen if a Spirit simply doesn't have the knowledge or experience to communicate. To find out how, they may become engrossed in education, work or a called vocation to enable the experience. The problem is that we often don't know this. And no Spirit necessarily tells us this. There are so many reasons this may happen. But it is a possibility. But know that our thoughts and feelings still reach them. So if we are patient communication will happen.

**Visits

Given this new work in Spirit (or even through your own work!).... Spirit will enter a new phase of existence, and you may find that communication attempts return. You are not forgotten, nor were you ever; There is simply new awareness at work.

**New awareness

With new awareness comes the desire to progress, but this does not mean progression AWAY from, but progress encompassing MORE! Remember you are more, they are more, Spirit is more than you could ever imagine. With more, nothing is lost or left behind. If you never give up hope you too can participate in this progression. No matter how high a Spirit may become, "They" always have ways to reach you. It is but perception that suggests otherwise. Have you any doubt that The Highest of Heaven has limits? So then push fear from your mind. You will never be alone. Love knows no limit.

**There comes a point when it's up to us to no longer rely on Visitation, but to treat it like any long distance relationship. Through progression we eventually reach a point where we are able to leave the nest. No longer do we have to rely on Spirit manifestations. We become able to meet Spirit half way or even go all the way to Spirit. The human brain is an quantum electro magnetic computer that helps facilitate our Spirit interacting with 3D reality. It is fully capable of Spiritual communication. This can happen through a myriad of techniques, but when you are aware that it is possible. Those in Spirt will often try to find ways to encourage this. And at times, if we fall back on our old selves we can forget and become re-enmeshed in doubt and fear, which frustrates all efforts.

**Work & Effort:

Now that you know you are no longer limited in Spiritual communication. You know that you do not have to wait for Spirit to come to you. Through work, effort and a try try again attitude you can learn what you need to, to facilitate more communication. But know this is work and a lot of it is hard. It's not something can readily hand you on a silver platter. To sustain it, you must embark and keep going.

**Meeting half way:

Once you get your bearings and begin your new journey, you will often find that Spirit meets you half way. It is then becoming a true equal meeting of the minds. Trust and faith on both ends of the Spectrum meet half way through love. This might come about through technique or through sheer force of will and love. It can happen on either end of the veil and is enabled by making an effort to initiate the connection. There are many ways to meet Spirit halfway or to go to them. This can be;

Raising ones vibration, working on the self, realizing you are spirit too, working with others, knowing and faith that your communications are heard, Knowing that everyone in spirit is just as different as we here on 3d earth. Knowing that every thing in Heaven is just as much about experience as it is here.

*We are but a reflection of Spirit.

*Like attracts like, bonds of love remain unbroken

There is never a reason to give up hope. For love is eternal.

I can write more about this later in the forum.... On a personal note, Erik often figuratively shakes his finger at me for relying on visits instead of initiating communication. I guess for most people that means trusting in the knowledge that our loved ones in spirit hear us. Trusting that they are there for us, and then try to work on ourselves.

May 15, 2011

A Great Read, a great lesson

The Circumstances of Life: Illusion or Reality?

The DRAGON OF DRAMA

Understanding the Nature of Personal Reality

http://www.dragonofdrama.com/the_weekly_lessons

http://www.dragonofdrama.com/archives

May 13, 2011

Subjective vs Objective Spiritual evidence: Random thoughts

An acquaintance of mine recently said that messages from Spirit should be validated by utilizing multiple mediums. Another individual, a college frequently emphasizes the necessity of objective evidence in afterlife communications.

I agree with them, yet disagree. Humankind throughout it's existence has been immersed in intensive duality of all types. It is what makes 3D earth so enticing. It helps define our experience by providing contrast. One type of duality within our experience is that of the subjective vs. objective spiritual evidence.

I feel there is no point in playing devils advocate. Other proofs and validations is not necessary as it is what the message means and feels like to you, that is important. What is the weight of your subjective experience worth to you. Are you strong enough to pick and choose what serves you best. Are you your own worst devil? I personally do not care about if something is subjective or objective. I only wish to look at the message and see what it means to me, if anything. I feel I am perfectly capable; no, I feel we all are perfectly capable of receiving and interpreting any message. But, if you wish to explore proofs and objectivity, I am all for that as well. Such actions help ground us in the 3D and make life successful. But it can get out of control and become an obsession. I've worked in academia most of my life. I know full well the nature of the subjectivity of any given subject based on the observer. I well know this even carries over into the hard sciences, depending on your perception. So while I am OK with either viewpoint; subjective or objective... In my own experience I feel I've experienced Spirit in some fashion my entire life. For many of my adult life I actively sought the sciences to explain it all away. But as my guides altered me to; "There came a day, that the weight of my subjective experience made it impossible to continue doubt without surrendering to the acceptance that what I did not understand might be perfectly valid." That I had it within myself to apply what I wished to my life.

So while many people will cry foul, will become alarmed, will turn their backs... I'd like to suggest that those seeking Spirit; in whatever fashion that may be.... Please pay them no mind. There is room enough in the universes for all. What matters is your personal journey and what it means to you. Try not to worry too much for in the end there is nothing but Love and Light. Right or Wrong... Who am I ... I am a work in progress. I trust I will be guided and find comfort in that my desire to keep going is strong.

May 12, 2011

Thinking with the lower ego vs Thinking with the higher self.

---Inspired by discussions with my guides and Teachers.

There are quite a few terms for the lower ego. But when I talk about it, I am referring to the physical body that is inhabited by the narrowly focused personality created by the higher self for this lifetime. In many instances the lower ego comes with concrete etheric or energetic barriers that envelop the tendrils or spiritual connections from the 3D body to the higher self or the all-soul of your Spirit. The reason for the lower ego is to enable you to feel and experience the physicality of this life without undue influence on that which you wished to experience.

And this lower ego at times can be so overwhelming that it becomes a war with the wishes of the higher-self. It thinks very differently than the higher-self. It is the raw emotion, the primal urge, the selfish preserver of the body. Neither good nor bad, it is a function of the 3D.

Here are some examples of how it thinks.

Lower ego thinking:

*Primal passions: The urges, desires, wants, needs of the sensual and emotional. Anger, pride, lust must be sated. Consequences of fulfilling such actions are tossed to the wind. In the moment of action, reason is abandoned for the primal desire. Desire of any emotion type.

*Impulsive self assessment: Using the unconsciousness mind and wild creativity; justification for effects caused by Primal passion is given. Ignorance is bliss, and if we can toss out statements of contradiction no matter how irrelevant or false (or true), we will get permission to do what we hunger for. In this frame of mind consequence is something that happens to others not the 'I' or anyone I know. Remember the old parental line, "if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you do so too?" Well this is where the mind says, 'everyone else does it, I am going to as well'. Under this frame of mind, our ego tell us we are immortal but does not clue us in-- that the body of flesh is not. Even though it says, all will be well, it does not tell you about the consequence to emotion and spirit, may be overwhelming.

*Irregular connection: --To memory, emotion, and experience. This makes awareness, understanding, and cognition of process within the experience difficult to deal with. This is because learning, understanding and Knowing is done by the higher mind. When we begin to understand; truly know an experience, we are in a state of mind created, stemming from the higher-self looking within, through, and back on the experience. Living in the now of passion and impulse of the 3D body is to-be blocked from the balance the higher self can offer.

*Flight or Fight: The lower ego does not have time for planning, contemplation, and introspective thought. It is focused on survival. When we become out of balance with our emotional and spiritual selves; we are left with the lower ego in control. This frequently leaves us with Flight or Fight reactions reacting within our primal passions in world where just assessment of our experiences does not occur.

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How to work on returning balance: ....

Connections to the higher self must be established. Consciously or Unconsciously the two minds must be returned to a working functionality. This can be done through active thought based intent. There are many ways to approach this. Here are some.

*Visualization:

See in your mind the action within the experience that lead to the unwanted emotion. Then imagine never being able to do it again. Understand thoroughly how this makes you feel. What do you want to do about this feeling? The more you can see the actions that lead to unwanted feelings the more aware you will be the next time an experience presents you with similar situations.

*Making lists:

Take paper, pen, or fingers. Now think of your unwanted feeling. Try to check off possible 'causes' of the situation, feeling or thought. Right or wrong doesn't matter. Just list them out. Anything goes. Just list. Think about each entry and try to visualize the situation if each one didn't exist. How do we feel now. How do you feel about each one separately? Does any one entry validate your reaction, perception or understanding of the situation? This hard work will give you vested interest in positive change. Keep going.

*Contemplating resistance:

Your lower ego will often fight your higher self. As stated above, when examined closely the resistance may not be especially rational. Often simply seeking thoughts on the matter will overcome uncomfortable resistance. This is a moment by moment affair though. It is not something done only once. Mindful contemplation benefits from daily renewal.

*Closely examining emotional states:

Hind sight is 20/20. But that does not have to be a facetious pop statement. Looking back for emotional lessons can help us work through debilitating thought. Cautiously bring yourself back to that moment where you felt the undesired feeling or thought. Contemplate how you feel about yourself within the feeling. Ask yourself WHY?

*Exploring other views:

Everyone comes to this life with their own set of baggage. Some bags look the same on the baggage return of the airport of life; but, each has different contents, arrivals, and destinations. Looking at others bag contents gives us all a little better understanding of who we are. If you can SEE and understand that someone came with no clothes, you might be more willing to give them the shirt off your back or help them lift their heavy load.

*Setting limits and boundaries:

The lower ego wants freedom. It wants the expansive grassland of the 3D to experience everything possible. Even if it doesn't serve our best interest. Many-times due to poorly contemplated experiences the lower ego tries it's best to protect us from more precieved hurt that would inhibit our future possible experiences. But what it does is take away balance, which causes experience without understanding. This is often painful. To fix this we need to allow the mindfulness and contemplation of the higher-self to set limits and boundaries based on how we wish outcomes to manifest. But this needs to be within our present state of being. We can successfully set boundaries by focusing on just one thing that we want and is within our current ability or circumstance.

*Acceptance and surrender:

Know that liner time in this life is fleeting. Accept the only thing you can control is what you do now. Know with all your being that the past does not have to hold you hostage. Know that you choose not only your future but more importantly how you react to it. Surrender to just doing right by yourself now and live as mindfully as you can.

*Letting go:

Whatever does not serve you; whatever is not helpful; whatever is left out of what you can do now --CAN be let go with simple mindfulness. This is the release of emotion and the embrace of Spirit.

May 11, 2011

Just for today, I will not worry.

As some of you know I am into Reiki. One of the mantras of the practice is, "Just for today, I will not worry". I defiantly feel this is a universal fundamental to living life to it's highest standard. But it is darn hard to do!

To hold this and other thoughts in your mind and soul amongst our daily life often seems an impossible task to me. Much of the time we feel quite alone in our troubles. So much so that our head is down and our mind becomes blank. I know I sometimes think if I ignore everything it will just go away. Then I often become tormented by the lurking elephant in the corner.

So I then find myself in a battle of inner wills. The will to do and the will to do not. And this becomes a vicious cycle of worry. It gets ugly. I hate it.

But it doesn't have to be like that. My guides say, "you know what you need to do, why are you asking us?" "When you are ready you will do what you need to.""Instead of worrying about tomorrow, DO what you can today, and let the rest go". "If you know you did what you could today, then you have no reason to doubt yourself. What you could not realistically do today is beyond your control." "Why worry then. You are deeply loved. Rejoice in this knowledge, strive to do what you can everyday and know it is who you are right now."

This is a message I run into time and time again in my life. Not quite a broken record, but I keep chewing on this food for thought. Reiki helps. It helps me narrow my focus in to action. It helps me think of what I want to do and how to help myself and others. It helps me surrender to action without boundaries through trust and faith

But one does not need a healing tradition to apply the principle of not worrying. If we just hold on to and try to understand what is already deep inside us, everything will be ok. So no matter if your pray to God, or if you meditate, sing, paint, or simply tell your children that you love them; Know that no matter what happens in life, IF you do what you can today, you don't have to worry so much.

May 10, 2011

Duality of selfishness in emotion: A tool

If you are having trouble with emotion, with the expression of emotion, in any situation for any reason; You-are-normal. You are not broken. You are not a freak. You are not going to die. What you are, is a state of being. It is quite simply where you are. And this is OK. It is OK to BE.

But know, In this state of being, this is not WHO you are. And none of this HAS-To-be where you end up. The key is surrendering, and acceptance of what you feel without qualifiers. And then putting active intent into exploring where you would like to go; what you would like to do next.

Remember, that just because you go elsewhere, doesn't mean that you loose something. What you retain or gain, depends on how much work you wish to put into understanding where you were.

Too often humankind puts labels on experiences without looking at all the nuances of the emotional nature of reality. Many choose to sit, suffer in silence without the desire to self explore. This seems a cold way of saying they are a like the child who fell on a wet lump of a log and then refuses to get up and look at the rest of the forest.

The trouble with exploring emotions is that they (the emotions) are Selfish by their vary natures. But this is neither good nor bad; though, it feels like it. What is selfish is NOT feeling the troubling emotion, rather what is selfish-- is not looking at the emotion. It's your emotion. Do what you want with it. But by not exploring it, your lower self is being selfish to or in contrast to your higher self. You are choosing the easy way out. Or just sitting and looking at the lump of a wet log instead of picking yourself up and exploring the forest.

This is caused by all sorts of things, but predominately fear. People stuff emotional expression deep down inside them so that no one can hurt them again. Or, they think that by bottling it up and treasuring it they will be better off. They see themselves as being weak, less than, a bad example. This is a type of misguided selfishness.

For when you do not give into a different type of selfishness, the Selfishness of "I am more than," "I deserve more than I allow myself"; you selfishly withhold all that you are capable of and what you might have to offer to others. Be it support, service, or teaching moments.

By allowing yourself the simple selfishness of simple self expression, you are not only doing right by yourself, you are doing right by the greater good. For by allowing yourself this emotion, you are being in the now. This tames and prevents bottled up explosions and leads to a more balanced life. Which then allows you more capacity to look up from the wet log and look further into the forest for the next path. Perhaps the path home!

This is the duality of positive and negative selfishness. Allowing ourselves to be OK with it, is about the unconditional acceptance of who we are. Judge not applies not only to others, but ourselves. If we actively embrace that we are all at a different mark on our journeys we will see there is no right one place but that mile marker we set for ourselves.

One of the best things we can do in helping others explore this duality is not to be sorry, but simply reach out and say, "I love you, I hear you, I am here". Smile-hug-let go.

---Voices of Spirit

It's OK to Live through grief. Experience the emotions loss, pain, anger, and guilt. If you can work through the experience for better or worse what remains is a freedom of knowing. This knowing is an understanding that can be treasured in a love that will last forever. It is a tresure because it becomes part of your story. The strength you may find can become the bedrock of new life. Although you may have to sift through the rubble. This is ok too.

---Voices of Spirit

May 9, 2011

The Spirit of reconciliation.

Is the movement of love

flowing from bitter earth

through dug trenches of

forgiveness and understanding.

Long or short it's depth is

dug from the sincerity of the will.

Awash in intention, how far it spreads

and how long it waters,

depends on purity of purpose.

--Voices of Light

May 6, 2011

Changing disabling feelings

Have you ever been disabled by your feelings of others? Anger, disgust, irritation, etc.?

I have a co-worker I often struggle with. Interactions with her frequently set me off in a bad attitude. Some of it is based on past experience, some of it personality conflict, and some of it is me. I am often appalled at the thoughts I find myself sending her way. Sometimes this can catch me in a moment, where I suddenly realize that my state of being and existence in the now, become disabled. I began to worry about this and wondered how do I prevent myself from having these undesired thoughts.

Here is what my Spirit Teacher said,

"One of the first steps in changing anything you do not like about yourself is to carefully examine it. When you run across unwanted emotion in your experiences it can be a sign post. This is a signal to become aware of. At times such emotion is a sign of something you wish or need to work on. Other times it is a warning. What you choose to do about this unwanted emotion will determine your perception of the experience. If you wish to direct your experience, examine how you are perceiving the emotions that the experience or interaction with others is affecting you. Once you have more information you will be able to understand the possible effects of your choices. Once you do that you can take steps to change the situation. For example; Everyone comes to their life with a set of desired "focuses". These are often experiences, often they are emotional experiences. So they will create and allow themselves to enter into situations to bring this about. When your experience approaches them your perceptions become entangled with theirs. This entanglement begins a reality that is co-created. How you react depends on how you perceive the lines and how many lines you are aware of. Sometimes, simply recognizing and acknowledging other peoples focus- can be a path to change the emotion you are experiencing.

There is no magic pill to halt emotion other than that of yourself you are willing to swallow." -- Z

"Guilt is a self fulfilling circle broken only by the acceptance of who you are and where you are right now. Acceptance comes from surrendering to self love. Shame is the discomfort of this struggle. By looking for the greatest good in you, and others, in the now- you will break the cycles and transcend into forgiveness. This is moving from the lower ego of attachment and into the love that is your higher-self.

This change will only come about by paying close attention to how you feel about your reactions to any given experience. What action you are willing to take as a result of this reaction is where you are right now. If you can embrace this, then shame should depart. If it does not, then there is still action that might serve you better. Some part of you knows this. This then is your struggle with attachment. You can now either let go of it, or you can work to change those thoughts and feelings through action. Doing this is moving through love to your higher self.

This is among the greatest work your soul will do."

--Voices of Spirit.

May 5, 2011

If you have not already done so, please take a look at the latest article from Linda and Z.

http://www.dragonofdrama.com/archives

It is on the The Higher Mind vs the Ego Mind.

Quote:

"The lack of balance and disharmony that exists and has always existed on the human plane prevails as it does because we are consciously disconnected from the Source although we are never really disconnected but is feels like we are. It’s just that we have lost or misplaced our awareness. This is because as a race we have come to rely predominantly on our sensory perceptions rather than our Higher Minds. As we saw earlier we need only to remember that our ties to who we are and where we come from are right there for the asking through our Higher Mind."