Focus your attention inward more often, getting to know not only how your body speaks to you but also how your spirit speaks to you. Often it is easy to override both body and spirit with ideas that are habitual, unrealistic and perhaps even harmful. If you ask your body to respond to a question it might give you the opposite answer than what your mind, your ego, or your emotions think. Likewise, your spirit may have totally different answers as well. Get to know yourself, all your parts, those you can see and those you can’t see. Wholeness involves such knowledge. For how can you be whole if you do not know what makes you whole?
Focus on your own life and the care of your own problems, for as part of the greater whole any work you do on yourself will not only affect you but also the greater whole. Discover why you act and think in such repetitive ways, why you have the tendencies you do and what makes you tick. Everyone comes into life with magnificent abilities and possibilities, with the prospect to grow and flourish, to succeed and prosper. Find your way forward to that magnificent self a little bit more each day and try to discover your true mission, your true purpose but, most importantly, your true, authentic self.
Take care of yourself by taking responsibility for your thoughts and actions, by keeping yourself in good mental and physical prowess, and by taking care of your inner self so that life is in alignment with spirit. When you are aligned with your spirit you know it by a certain calm contentedness, by the feeling of peace within and by the lack of friction around the choices you make on a daily basis. Turn inward and ask: Am I in alignment with myself? With spirit? Taking care of the self involves loving the self, valuing the self, thanking the self for the complicated journey you are on, but also taking responsibility for getting to know the self and supplying the self with all that you need, especially within. Take time to take care.
Health and wellness of the body are important endeavors but so is the health and wellness of the spirit, the inner self that depends not on the foods of the earth but the foods of the ethers. Exercise the spirit more often. Try different types of meditation, quiet moments throughout your day, to connect with it so that you can hear what it has to say. Just as your body speaks to you through aches and pains so will your spirit speak to you in its own way. Perhaps you feel lost or depressed, sad or angry. Emotions are one of the languages of spirit. Pay attention to its call and find out what it needs. Often just a little attention will go a long way and a simple respite from the pressures of life will revitalize it. At other times a major shift may be called for, and if so, take each step into new life with love and compassion for yourself, knowing that you are important enough to deserve new life too.
The energy of now mirrors lessons in power. In an interview with Tim Ferriss, Elizabeth Gilbert, of Eat, Pray, Love fame, reveals that she has been celibate and closed to intimate relationship for the past five years. She had come to the realization that her pattern of always blaming partners had overshadowed her entire life. She decided to seek the source of blame within herself alone.
When we discover our projections as unknown or disowned parts of ourselves, we are empowered to know and influence positively the holographic reality we all share equally in.
The power in blame is the comfort of self-righteousness exercised in the creation of a faulty, other than, self. In the truth of the hologram, self contains all others. There simply is no cause for blame; the buck stops here, within the self.
Actually, life in three-dimensional reality predisposes us to need to differentiate in order to establish an identity. If we were to remain in a herd identity, we would not develop a consciousness of self that allows for independent action. However, this separation creates a cloudy reality. When we shine a light upon an object, a shadow is created that allows us to see and define the object. As P. P. Quimby points out, this shadow also leads to error, or opinion, as the fuller interconnected truth is separated and lost in the shadow.
It is natural for us to listen to someone’s presentation and find ourselves thinking of exceptions to that which they propose. This is the action of the analytic mind differentiating what it hears. Many a hurt feeling and quarrel result from this ‘misunderstanding’ in dialogue, whose true roots lie in an automatic differentiating mental process.
Of course, as valuable as the knowledge of differentiation is, it favors such a materialist worldview of separate objects that it loses connection to the intimacy of the interdependent oneness we all share in. When we open the door to our fourth-dimensionally interconnected selves, ordinarily screened out by our physical senses and internal dialogue, higher truth and knowledge is revealed, the deepest source of our innate healing power.
Quimby would sit and get en rapport with his ailing patient until, in this sympathetic oneness, it was revealed to him the true cause of their discomfort. His patient in turn opened their heart to the faith in the possibility that they could be healed; what medical science calls today the placebo effect.
Quimby never touched a patient or prescribed any medicinal remedy. He merely revealed the true cause of the complaint, as revealed to him. The obvious changes necessitated by that knowledge were for his patient to undertake, for the power to heal lies with the patient’s understanding of and alignment with the truth.
The power to heal and transform lies latently available in one’s connection to, and communication with, one’s higher fourth-dimensional self. Access to that higher self is gained through meditation and the practice of reaching the subconscious mind through the power of thoughtful intent.
In the eleventh, bonus episode, of the Telepathy Tapes, we meet Dan, an adult volunteer working with autistic non-speakers. We discover that Dan has so opened his heart, and practiced deep meditation, that he gains access to what autistic non-speakers call, The Hill, a consensual reality meeting place in the fourth-dimensional astral plane. Here, autistic people, in their energy body soul states, regularly commune. These visits by Dan are verified by participants from The Hill, as they later recount these fourth-dimensional interactions when back in their third-dimensional physical bodies.
We also learn that Dan had been diagnosed with fourth stage lymphoma that went into remission over the course of several months, his only course of treatment being his deep meditations, deep breathing, and healing intent. He credits the power of thought with his success.
Our world is clearly in the throes of a vitriolic breakdown as it transitions into a new paradigm of human potential and power. We witness daily dramatic displays of power. These are opportunities for us all, like Elizabeth Gilbert, to circumvent blame, go inward, and assume responsibility for our own use, abuse, or nonuse of power.
Like the shamans of old, it truly is time for us to create our own Tales of Power.
New Thoughts on Power, Chuck
Inspirations for this blog: very dense reading, not necessarily recommended.
