Self-enhancement might not be so much about diving deeper and questioning what’s wrong but swimming upward and questioning what’s right, less about how deep you can dive and more about how high you can go. For is not your true home in the higher spiritual realms? Seek spiritual pathways to not only enlightenment but to calmness in body and spirit and to peacefulness within. Take time for spiritual work and play and your body will thank you. Rather than focusing on what’s so wrong and negative about the self, focus on what’s right and positive. Your spirit will thank you!
The mass shootings of now grate upon our collective heart, nerves and gut, agitating our intent for calm and spiritual advancement in ourselves and our world. Our reactions range from outrage to utter despondency, true depression of spirit.
In the midst of WWI, in 1915, psychic researcher Frederic Myers, who had physically died in 1901, channelled to Juliet Goodenow the following perspective on the forces at play in the Great War, from his removed subtle perch in the next dimension:
“Germany is suffering today, in consequence of her having accepted as truth the writings of misguided theorists, involving the world in a conflict of opinion. Materialists have accomplished this tragic result through the materialistic belief of the nation… Nations that overdevelop materialistic ideas lose the necessary spiritual balance to retain sufficient equilibrium.” (Letters to Juliet: Is there Life after Death? p. 18)
Certainly, if we fast-forward to WWII, Germany fully materialized its theories of human perfection through actualizing laboratory procedures of purification via human extinction. The Holocaust became the ultimate material realization of misguided and misapplied spirit.
The passion of misguided beliefs achieving materialization are the tragic sparks we witness daily on our current world stage. The equilibrium we require for stability is extremely tenuous. How might an individual, but a cell of this living world soul, contribute to needed balance, both within and without?
All have direct access to the inner workings of their central nervous system. The subtlest thought or vibration registers in the nerves of the body, activating automatic reactions and responses. The speed and network of this subconscious activity is far more rapid than the deliberate analytic workings of the conscious mind.
As a result of these hidden mind/body processes, we might find ourselves seized with passion, or equally mired in sullen mood for unseen or unreflected reasons. These unconscious operations take hold of our state of physical charge and swoosh us along like dried leaves in a powerful wind. Collectively these winds generate the human clashes of now.
True, there are forces, seen and unseen, that strategically seek to provoke such disarray; all are not the meeting of non-premeditated intents. However, intended or random, we, as individuals, have the power to assume control of our central nervous systems.
In fact, this is critical to our greatest challenge in life, as we all must release our physical bodies at our time of death. Critical to optimal transition is the ability to completely relax, let go, and go with the flow of body to spirit. Resistance or refusal at this stage fixates one’s journey in an alternative illusory life, necessary to be completed before the real journey can be successfully resumed.
Thus, now, while fully alive as souls in physical body partnership, through focus upon our physical body, which constantly registers and reacts to spirit commands—conscious and unconscious—we can deepen our spirit’s calm and take command of our soul’s journey in this life and beyond.
The practice is quite simple, yet like all skills of value, requires patience and perseverance for optimal development. We begin by turning our awareness, which is a function of our spirit, to the state of tension in the physical body. We will notice if our heart rate is elevated, if our jaws are clenched, if our breathing is restricted, if our throats are constricted, if our belly is tight, if our perineum is tense, if pain or numbness is registering in some organ or appendage of the body.
With conviction and intention, we suggest to the body to go deeper into calm as we consciously release the tension in the body, taking it down a notch in calmness. With our breath in exhalation, we ask the body to take it down to another level of calm. We repeat this several times, as we reset and take command of the state of relaxation in the body.
Notice how another spirit, the internal dialogue, begins to initiate its interpretations, judgments, negative beliefs and stories, and how they stir the body to resume a tense state. Don’t engage in arguing with this cognitive activity. Instead, use it as a trigger to go deeper into calm.
In fact, begin to use all explosions of emotion and physical threat as triggers to go deeper into calm. Fear not that this will ill-prepare you to respond to danger. Every seasoned martial artist knows that the best strategy for encounter is the clarity afforded by deep calm. Certainly, the greatest opponent of all, death itself, is best managed in utter calm.
From the place of deep calm, you contribute calm and clarity to the collective world’s nervous system, contributing soothing balance to stabilize it in such tumultuous times.
Regardless of eruption upon the planetary surface, go deeper into calm. This is the Spirit that will materialize true equilibrium in our world.
Though you may often feel alone, you are not alone, for you are supported, protected and loved by unseen forces, by beings who wish only the best for you. Though not aware of these beings, they care deeply about you, about your life and your progress, about your decisions and choices. They long for you to know them and yet they do not judge or condemn you for your lack of knowledge of them. They only love you the more. Get to know them by reaching out, by speaking to them and asking for their guidance. They will respond. Make this your new practice; each day, ask and you will receive.
If we don’t face our fears they just become impassable mountains… – Photo by Jan Ketchel
We are all invited to work on ourselves at the deepest level now, to face and reconcile our fears so that we may be free to be who we truly are, spiritual beings in a world that so badly needs us.
Wishing you all good luck as you face your fears, even as I continually face mine.
Everyone has a heart, but not all hearts have been lit with the light of love. But a heart that has been lit with love has its own power and merits. From the bottom of your own awakened heart to the top of your conjuring mind send only loving thoughts. Fill your mind with kindly phrases, with positive aphorisms, with the sweetest ideas to combat the negative, the worrisome, the detestable, and that which comes to haunt you with fear. Use your own light of loving wisdom, deep within your heart, to overpower the things that the mind conjures to scare and entrap. With love, begin and end each day. With loving thoughts, words, and deeds live each day as a loving, spiritual being in alignment with what your heart knows, for it is there that all your true answers lie, for the heart does know best. Learn to trust it.
