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Chuck’s Place: Honing Conscious Suggestion

Locking down & opening up…
– Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

I place my awareness on my calf muscle.  “My left calf muscle is warm,” I state. I notice that a faint warming sensation appears in my left calf muscle.

My thinking mind remains passive; it simply observes. My subconscious mind, however, takes my suggestion as its command and orchestrates the body activity needed to create the sensation of warmth in my calf muscle.

My conscious mind has no clue as to how to create warmth in my calf muscle. Active thinking is limited to abstract thought and reason. In contrast, my subconscious mind holds the keys to the kingdom and can manifest, in some material form, any suggestion presented to it.

For instance, if I actively think the thought, “I can’t hula hoop,” my hips will rigidify and the hoop will hit the floor. In this case, the negative  suggestion to the subconscious is manifested by the body.

Of course, one might protest, quite accurately, that without practice one will be unable to successfully hula hoop. This is true, but once the ability has been achieved, through diligent practice, a trial performance will most likely fail if one negatively thinks, “I can’t do it.”

What we tell ourselves is what we become. What we listen to we become. If I incessantly listen to negative thoughts broadcast from a television station, I will become a negative person. In this case, the thoughts and beliefs I hear expressed become the command to my subconscious mind to generate the emotional body state that creates the negativity of anger, vigilance, and discontent.

Beliefs are highly insulated thoughts. Thus, if we state a suggestion that opposes an ingrained belief we confuse the subconscious mind with opposing commands. In this case, the more exercised and repeated belief is likely the suggestion the subconscious will follow.

For instance, if one holds a deep belief that they are inadequate, the command to the subconscious that “I am competent” may actually manifest as self-doubt and defeat, felt as anxiety and depression. In this case, it is best to acknowledge the underlying belief and perhaps first process experiences that have contributed to that belief, in an effort to neutralize it.

Bob Monroe suggested using an imaginary heavily-lidded box to place one’s negative beliefs in before giving a new suggestion to the subconscious, to allow for an unfettered experiment of exploration. This is akin to a scientist that may not believe something is possible but suspends judgment and submits to legitimate experimental conditions to see what happens.

Thus, for example, one might not believe they can experience their energy body. By placing their doubting mind in their imaginary storage locker, they are free to suggest to the subconscious that they experience the vibratory state connected to their energy body. In this case, with doubt suspended, one becomes open to a new possibility.

So what is the subconscious mind? The subconscious is the mind that used to completely direct the human animal, prior to the birth of human consciousness. When the subconscious ruled, it responded to the world instinctively. All stimuli to the senses evoked evolutionary programs that were automatically selected to respond to a need or challenge. No thinking was involved, simply stimulus and preprogrammed response.

Animals, for instance, know instinctively how to give birth. With the birth of consciousness, humans lost this connection to immediate, direct knowledge, as they added doctors to the birthing experience to attempt to improve on nature’s instinctive programs.

Though our connection to the subconscious is less direct than in the animal world, we are nonetheless afforded the opportunity to volitionally suggest directly to the subconscious in a way not possible for other animals. This is both a blessing and a curse.

The blessing is, we can manifest a world that functions more efficiently than our evolutionary programming. The curse is that we can manifest a world based on narcissism, which is unsustainable. This, in fact, is the crossroads that we, and our world, currently find ourselves at.

If one aligns one’s suggestions with the truth of one’s heart, one is sure to manifest a world that cares for all beings and is deeply sustainable.

Process limiting beliefs, or put them in the box, while you experiment with the subconscious mind. This is where one might truly experience a world where all things are possible.

Suggesting love,

Chuck

Soulbyte for Friday July 22, 2022

Go deeper within to shed the troubles that hold you from finding and connecting to your true essence, your spirit. In balance, true self and spirit will find that they are actually one and the same, not separate as body and soul but one as true essence. And this true essence is capable of so much that you haven’t even experienced yet. There is so much more to life!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday July 20, 2022

Stay focused on your intent to change. Though there are often interruptions and unforeseen blips in your progress, do not let them interrupt the flow of your life toward a more meaningful spell, toward the life you dream of. It is natural for the flow of life to contain ups and downs, and each up and each down is a lesson along the path. Look always forward, and continue onward toward your goal no matter the events that may seem to stand in your way. As with nature, everything does eventually change.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Let Love be The Emphasis

Every slice contains the whole…
– Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

The salient feature of a hologram is that every slice of it, no matter how infinitesimal, at the subtlest level of energetic reality contains the wholeness of the hologram.

We simply cannot get away from the basic fact that everything around us is also part of us. We are all part of the same hologram. At the solid material level of reality, the appearance of  separateness and uniqueness belies the hidden truth that all, everything, is one.

What gives us our distinctness in our current life is the specific position our personality currently occupies in the hologram. Although we contain within us potential access to all the positions of the hologram, our ‘personality’ is merely the fixed position, with its unique perspective, that we occupy in this life.

The shamans of ancient Mexico coined the term the assemblage point to depict the distinct position one occupies in the hologram and how, from that vantage point, energy is assembled into one’s perception of the world.

Until recently, the collective assemblage point of humankind was relatively consistent among all members of the human race, which generated a fairly uniform consensus reality. Presently, however, there is little collective consensus of reality, creating the instability, uncertainty and great changes the world is currently experiencing.

A shift in the assemblage point to a new position sends one into another perception of reality, into another world. In sleeping, the assemblage point naturally shifts, as we enter dreams, which take us to alternate positions of the assemblage point where we experience different personalities, often unknown or dormant parts of the hologram, within our reach but not emphasized in our waking, assembled selves.

These minor shifts of the assemblage point may take us into the suppressed regions of the subconscious mind or the unconscious regions of the greater hologram. Past lives may actually be personal in the sense that they are experienced personally when one shifts into, lives, and remembers the history contained in a newly discovered position of the assemblage point. Nonetheless, shifts into past lives are actually also collective, in that anyone who experiences that same position will have the same memory.

Just after WWII, at the formative age of 19, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, later the renowned author of Death and Dying, visited Maidanek, the concentration camp in Poland where many young children had been exterminated. She interacted with a young Jewish girl who elected to stay there rather than leave at the end of the war. This young girl was spared, just prior to liberation of the camp by the Allies, simply because one more person could not fit into the gas chamber. In her horror, Elisabeth asked her:

“…Why do you stay in this place of inhumanity?” She said, ‘during the last few weeks of the concentration camp I swore to myself that I was going to survive to do nothing but tell the world of all of the horrors of the Nazis and the concentration camps. Then the liberation army came. I looked at those people and I said to myself: ‘No. If I would do that, I would be no better than Hitler himself.’ Because what else would I then do but to plant even more seeds of hate and negativity in the world? ….if I can touch one single human life and turn it away from negativity, from hate, from revenge, from bitterness into one that can serve and love and care, then it might be worthwhile and I deserved to survive.” “…Don’t you believe, Elisabeth, that in all of us there is a Hitler?”
from The Tunnel and The Light, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1999

This young girl had the wisdom to see that indeed, Hitler was just another position of the assemblage point, the position of negativity and hatred. She had been emotionally drawn to shift to this position within herself in the waning weeks of the war. In the end, she acknowledged her own inner Hitler potential and chose to adhere to the position of love, with the intent to shift away from occupying the position of negativity and instead to advance the healing of the world.

The ability to acknowledge that we are all part of the same hologram, that we are all capable of everything, lessens the need for our psyche to introduce us to ourselves through our disowned and hated parts, via projection onto other people.

It may be impossible to not feel the rage and hatred this girl experienced initially; in fact it’s critical to acknowledge it and release the emotions of it. However, to not become possessed by the Hitlerian position of the assemblage point one must intend a different position.

The time we are living in is flush with the negativity of Hitler types. To counter this position one must first acknowledge one’s own attraction to, and capacity for, negativity. From this place of truthfulness, one can accept inherent flawed-ness as a characteristic of the human hologram, as well as accept one’s own personal flaws.

With this self-acceptance, negativity loses its grip and one is freed to just love, the ideal position of the assemblage point within the human hologram.

Find this position within the personal self and contribute to its collective emphasis in our coming new consensus reality. We all have agency. Let love be the emphasis.

With love,

Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday July 19, 2022

Stick to your plan for change no matter what comes to interrupt your progress. There will always be interruptions but don’t let them get in the way of your greater intent. There may be setbacks, there may be decisions that need attention and difficulties to straddle, but remain firm in your intent, in mind, body, and spirit, and eventually the path to change will be easier, your progress swifter, and your arrival at your destination will come sooner than you think. Before you know it, you will have done it—the change you so wished for will have happened. At that time it will be important to keep going onto the next challenge and the next change with equally great intent, for what else is life for?

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne