Make time for yourself today by taking a few minutes here and there to check in with how your body feels, with how your inner self is feeling and with where your heart stands on any important matter that arises. By checking in throughout the day you offer yourself an opportunity to maintain balance, to get grounded in the true reality of you. The true reality of you is just as important as the reality of others, or the reality of the world around you, for if you are not grounded and in reality nothing else will be either. So make a healthy habit of checking in with yourself. And pay attention to feedback, taking steps to remain in balanced harmony, within and without.
Change is constant in Nature, which presents an eternal flow of energy; a chaos of sorts that engages, evolves, both creating and destroying as it churns onwards. So is it with the human body and all its components; it too is in constant flux. Nothing is really stable, though control of the emotions can produce the feeling of calmness that is so desired. Calmness brings a sense of control over chaos and thus it is wise to seek calmness. Even while knowing that change is constant and that chaos ensures, the calm mind can handle anything and be at peace. In the midst of chaos what better state to be in! Seek the still point of calmness and ride out the chaos with a sense of balance and harmony, within and without.
Focus on what is possible and doable while never forgetting that nothing is impossible. Keep an open mind, but keep it focused and occupied so that it does not sabotage your spirit, that part of you that has knowledge of bigger and better things to come.
Physical life offers many challenges and its focus should be on accomplishing what comes to greet you every day, the small things and the seemingly insurmountable. Let physical life guide you through each day while simultaneously allowing the spiritual to perform its own duties, showing you what is ultimately possible. In this manner find harmony and balance, always expecting a new door to open when least expected.
Concern yourself with what is going on inside as you weigh choices, make decisions and begin each day of your life. What is your body saying to you today? What is your heart implying as you pose your questions? How does your central nervous system react to your ideas? Tune in and listen closely to your body; it will tell you a lot. Learn how it responds as you ask it to guide you. It’s easy to let thoughts override how your body speaks to you, but it may not be wise. When in alignment, heart, mind, body and spirit, the four parts of the conscious self, will speak the same language, and that language is harmony. Harmony breeds happiness, contentment, and satisfaction that is deep and grounding, aspects that a healthy you will recognize instantly and want to seek again and again. Seek harmony first within, then radiate harmony out into the world around you. In harmony there is a balance that is unmistakably right.
Black Magic is the ego’s use of its power of suggestion to manipulate the subconscious mind to produce subtle and material effects for its own self-serving purposes. This contrasts with the exercise of suggestions intended for the greater good of the overall Self, as well as the greater good of the world. These kinds of suggestions are the ego’s use of White Magic.
Both Black and White Magic employ spells and incantations in the form of repetitive words—like prayers, intents or affirmations—that the receptive subconscious, the true mother of creation, brings to life. Words are the seeds that fertilize new life in the womb of the subconscious mind.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was made flesh,” opens John’s Gospel, describing the origin of creation. Words can produce works of evil, as well as works of high spiritual value. The subconscious does not differentiate between the two; the subconscious is a dutiful servant that does what it is told.
Words issue from the mental body, the ego part of the personality, with its thinking, reasoning and decision making capabilities. The ego has the supreme ability to exercise free will, to be its own creator of reality. Through its influence upon the subconscious, the ego has free access to the elemental forces of good and evil, the divine building blocks of our human self and our world.
The mission for ego in its life in human form is to bring harmonious balance to its innate state of polarity. Each of us are born with our own myth, a riddle to be discovered and resolved in the high art of a human life. For this, the ego must venture into the underworld of its shadow self, as well as enter into the outer world of relationship. The choices it makes are necessary engagements of both Black and White Magic. Wholeness precludes one-sidedness; wholeness is integration.
The subconscious mind is reflected in the body’s gut. The gut, at a physical level, is all about the balance of bacteria needed for proper digestion. The gut follows Nature’s Law: karma. Karma is the law of cause and effect. The gut will take the necessary actions to bring to balance the effects we have caused by the actions we have chosen.
These gut healing efforts might include great pain in the intestinal tract, or actual disease to an organ, as the gut spurs the ego to right action in its choices and suggestions to the subconscious mind.
Thus, the subconscious mind, though it does not argue with the ego about its dominant commands, and in fact carries out those commands, is fundamentally bound to Nature’s Law of karmic balance. While materializing the ego’s wishes, the subconscious is simultaneously bound to materialize its karmic consequences.
Nature makes use of the destructive elementals to enact change. Evil can be defined as the destructive action necessary to evoke change through the breakdown of rigidities. Love can be defined as the receptive energy of change, driven by the heart opening to greater inclusiveness. Love and evil are a most necessary polarity in wholeness. The challenge is to harmonize their influences in the service of refined growth.
Black Magic is part of the ego’s necessary repertoire. Sometimes the ego must oppose nature’s law of balance. Of course, those decisions will evoke a karmic consequence that may seriously sideline the ego. Watch out what you ask for!
Nonetheless, as creators, we are scientists destined to experiment. We are truly on a mission from God to know and refine who we are—in our wholeness, both good and evil.
Evil is a necessary tool for both the ego and the subconscious. Evil is the mental body’s free-will teacher and refiner. The mind will reflect upon the consequences of its decisions, which may modify subsequent actions.
Evil is also Nature’s karmic tool of balance, the primary controlling suggestion to the subconscious mind. The challenge is to bring free will and karma into good balance.
Perhaps the best guidance was offered by don Juan Matus, Carlos Castaneda’s teacher: Have a romance with knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. Explore everything, but don’t get overly attached to anything.
Or, as Julia Child recommended, have but a small taste of everything.
In conclusion, choose the best balance for where you are now!
