Each day, as you ascend from the depths of sleep and wake up to the light of a new day, you have the opportunity to try something new and different. It can be as simple as making a decision to eat something different for breakfast, to drive to work on a different route, to change some pattern that you are so married to that you think you can’t do without it. Try breaking away from one of those things you so rely on. Make today the beginning of something new. Break away from the needs of the old self and dare a new self to come forth as you declare a new way of doing things. Starting a new day in a new way is a time worn tradition, one that is well worth taking up!
All change happens internally as much as it happens externally. You are a being of constant change. Within your own body things are constantly changing, replenishing; some things are dying off and other things are growing anew. This is what change is all about; it is a constant, it never stops. Sometimes you are in a place to accept and allow for change while at other times you are reluctant and resistant to change, and this is all very natural. You have free choice so, of course, you may decide you are not ready for change just yet. But change is always ready for you! Whenever you are ready to tap into it, it is there waiting for you.
Remain committed to your path of heart, to your path of growth and change. There is no better path than a path of constant yearning for change and evolution. Look at the world around you, how it changes constantly. You too are of that same changing world and you too are imbued with that same spirit of constant change. Let it come about naturally. Let the changes that want to emerge from within you come about in a natural way. First be open and allowing of change. Prepare yourself to accept what comes to you and be ready for anything, because when you open up and ask for change, you will get it. It takes nerves of steel to weather through the torrents of change, but you know you have such nerves, and the guts to take on the task. Remember this as you begin a new day of change.
When things are difficult turn inward for the answers you seek, for a world in turmoil will not be able to present the solutions to its own problems. Another perspective is needed to get through difficult times. A heart-based perspective offers unity, simplicity, calmness and distance from the chaos around you. Turn to the heart and ask it for the right answers. The heart will not fail you.
The current of heart centered truth… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Suggestion is the connection to the imagination of the human soul. The mere hint of a possibility seeds the foundation of a story that bursts forth, in all its particulars, from the raw materials of the subconscious mind, in concert with the logic of consciousness.
Perhaps the greatest works of art and literature, as well as scientific discoveries, have their roots in the power of suggestion, as it conjures and takes shape in the interplay between the subconscious and conscious minds.
The subconscious has access to every detail of all we have ever experienced, since conception, and even before. The subconscious, as a piece of the hologram of infinity, also stores the collective history of humankind, with all its accrued knowledge.
When Edgar Cayce, with his simple 8th grade education, gave an intuitive health reading, he had access to in-depth medical treatments from all historical times. At the same time, Cayce required, in trance, to be asked questions to give needed answers, as the subconscious requires suggestion; it is not a freethinking mind. For this, the directed thinking of consciousness is required.
The subconscious, with its unlimited ability to generate information, is the automatic mind that guided our evolutionary ancestors. The birth of ego consciousness—the hallmark of a sense of personal identity, and the ability to reason and override subconscious instinct—is a very recent human acquisition. In fact, the automatic mind of the subconscious dominates both the running of the physical body and most mental processes as well.
The shamans point out that the incessant repetition of the internal dialogue that we all experience is nothing other than the drone of the subconscious, as it generates the preprogrammed suggestions that contour our habitual sense of self. Whatever core beliefs we have about ourselves are constantly reinforced by suggestions fed to us by programs embedded in our subconscious, which we unwittingly reinforce daily at a conscious level.
Much of the cognitive and emotional distress we encounter in our lives is actually generated by suggestions we automatically give ourselves from the moment we awaken to each new day. Those suggestions generate the familiar stories we live by. If consciousness made a concerted and persevering effort to suggest a different storyline to our subconscious, we could open up to an entirely different sense of self. The key is to have faith and belief in the suggestion we embrace.
Suggestion is at the heart of marketing psychology, that which controls much of our economic behavior. Suggestion has run rampant on social media as well, as people unconsciously absorb fake news, and as they subsequently take on the polarized attitudes and stories encoded in those viral suggestions.
Once the subconscious takes in a new suggestion, that suggestion becomes its truth and it rallies all its resources around its imperative. It remains for consciousness to judge the validity of the storyline. If consciousness does not engage its reason to objectively evaluate the story, it automatically becomes the story we adopt and live by.
The current of truth is the one story that actually aligns with the truth in the world. The many currents of nature—be they the tides, the fires, the earthquakes or winds—reveal the truth of climate change. Despite this objective truth, many people still believe in subjective stories that don’t acknowledge the actual truth.
The current of truth is actually the Tao, the harmonious law of nature that validates the simple truth of cause and effect. Humans are free to embrace whatever story they wish, however, nature’s currents of truth will continue to react to human miscalculation.
Eventually, humans will embrace the suggestion to live in the current of truth, as it is the only combination that will ensure the necessary balance and harmony for survival.
The truth is, all are empowered to embrace this intent now, simply by offering new suggestions to the self to flow with the current of truth.
When consciousness embraces the truth, the subconscious will rally its potentiality around this directive, and the world will be remade in a truthful story. Now that’s a story worth embracing!
