Beware of energy drains, where you put your attention and what you get drawn to. It is highly likely that you will be pulled to examine the world around you, and that is good, but it may cause you to lose too much of your hard-earned energy. A better practice would be to read about the world around you with a detached aire, knowing that it cannot affect you if you continually pull back into your inner knowing of all that is, your awareness that everything has a rightful place in the world and thus whatever is happening in the world right now also has its place. In so detaching, you allow yourself to be informed but not deformed by anxiety, depression or dysregulation. In so doing you remain in control of your thinking, your emotions and your mental prowess. Hone these qualities every day, even as you confront what is going on in the world around you. You, by your own strong will and your own strong thinking and your own strong wisdom, have the power within you to remain detached yet compassionate toward all beings, even those who do the most harm.
Be alert to what your mind conjures up. Question its truth. The mind is a great trickster. Unfortunately, it is so often believed. It may be time to give it up, to listen to something new and exciting, to engage in some new ideas that are more heart centered and spiritually oriented. It might be time to ramp up the mind in a new way that opens doors and allows new thinking to enter your sphere and guide you in a new way. Perhaps close the door on the old mind but open the ears to a new voice. Open the heart to new words of wisdom and allow life itself to guide you in a new and more interesting direction, for your sake and the sake of others as well.
Smell the good fresh air of life around you, the soft scent of the sunlight as it falls upon you, the scent of rain or the taste of morning dew upon your tongue and be in awe, full of gratitude for another day to make waves upon the planet you live upon. Make waves today in a good way, peaceful waves, thankful waves, waves of gentleness. Make waves today so that others may have a hint of your own good wave vibration and feel hopeful that peace is in the air.
Before you get too far into your day today, give thanks for the opportunity to change the world in your own small way. Make a promise to be more aware of yourself today, of how you are affecting others and how they are affecting you. Watch what happens as you make a decision to shift your own mood into a more harmonious one that will bring harmony into your own life. Sometimes just deciding to let go of worry and thoughts of trouble in the world is enough to provide a shift in mental state that in the long run will bring a shift in your personal mood, capable of shifting everyone you interact with during the day. Even your dog or cat will notice!
As I have many times referenced, the Nagual, don Juan Matus, explained to his apprentice, Carlos Castaneda, that indeed, the world of solid objects that we live in, is real. However, he pointed out that a greater world of infinite, undifferentiated energy underlies this solid world, the world of all that is. Though challenging to reach, we all have access to the energy of the oneness of all that is, always.
Don Juan explained that our everyday world is but one potential interpretation of the energy of that infinitely vaster underlying world of energy. Our interpretation is our mental blueprint, formed by our belief, desire and demand, as envisioned in our imagination, and then assembled, by this intent, into solid physical reality.
We intend both the creation of our lives and the world we live in. What we believe, we are. However, what we are, is relative. Changing a belief can completely change who we are, though it does not ultimately free us from the karma of the experiences and actions of the characters we have been.
Nonetheless, even with scores to settle with the personality we have been, we can be freed to fully stalk a new life and come back later, with an enriched perspective, to complete that which must be completed from a former belief state.
Our beliefs fixate our energy into a solid world that is definitely real. However, it would be an error to say that it is the only reality. For instance, life in the finite world of the Earth suggests a world of definite limits. The notion of scant resource and how it should be distributed is a driving concern upon the Earth plane at present.
The rightness of prosperity in the midst of limited resource and overwhelming need is a legitimate concern. There is no error in this truth. However, if one opens to accessing the ocean of infinite energy that exists beyond one’s interpretation of everyday life, through the intent of autosuggestion, one can tap that infinite resource of all that is and receive a prosperous life, without depleting any resource upon the finite plane of Earth.
Thus, though scarcity is a truth, it is also an error from the point of view of infinite possibility, latently accessible through conscious intent presented to the subconscious mind. What we place our intent upon can generate a separate reality, such as a physical healing, actualized by a healing affirmation.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, the healer who healed Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, discovered that fixated beliefs can actually generate disease. When he worked with patients, he educated them as to how their thinking, though true from the premises issued from their interpretation of physical reality, also limited their access to a greater Truth; that at an energetic level anything is possible.
The error, or limitation in their thinking, generated the real outcome of disease but veiled their access to an alternative healing belief. If his patient was able to see the error, or limitation in their thinking, and open to the power of energetic Truth, they healed. Such is the potential power of suggestion to the subconscious mind.
Carl Jung grappled with the dilemma of error and truth by designating two centers in the personality, the ego and the Self. The ego is the center of the conscious personality that is informed largely by the five physical senses and the rational mind. The Self includes the ego but opens, through the subconscious portal, to the vastness of the collective unconscious and all that is. The Self also brings intuition and psychic powers to the personality, though the ego’s fixation on rationality can often dismiss its access to them.
Thus, the ego is real and part of the Self, but due to its limited skills and purview it is frequently in error in its assessments, which blocks its access to deeper Truth. Fortunately, as ego matures and becomes humbled by the greater knowledge and capacity of its Self, it raises its vibration and can develop a working relationship with the Self.
The Self operates at a finer energetic vibration than dense matter, and so the ego must learn to reach alpha and theta brainwave states to open the portal of direct communication with the Self.
Robert Monroe created the storage box metaphor, where one could deposit into the storage box one’s denser, thinking, beta brainwave mind, and thus be freed, with the assistance of higher brainwave entrainment, to explore deeper Truths and possibilities in infinity. Regardless of knowledge and fluidity gained in these journeys, one must ultimately re-associate with the contents of one’s storage box. In so doing, karma is neutralized and no longer a hindrance to radical change.
The point of the time we all spend in Earth School is for the ego to mature and gain support from the Self as it navigates the journey of resolving karma and the challenges it chose, at the level of Self, to fully explore in this lifetime.
The ego can begin a more definite relationship with the Self through its suggestions to the subconscious mind. One begins by shifting the energy state of the physical body through statements of relaxation, starting with the feet and progressing to the head, as the whole body is progressively relaxed, saying, for instance:
“My feet are relaxed, my calf muscles are relaxed, my thighs are relaxed, etc.”
Next, an autosuggestion is repeated several times to the subconscious mind. Here is an example of such an autosuggestion, but you can make up your own:
“I express deep gratitude to my subconscious mind for its unflinching support for the intentions I present to it. My subconscious mind is linked to Infinite Intelligence and Divine Love and has access to my High Self. I ask that my High Self guide me in ways I will recognize, with the ultimate goal being to achieve fulfillment and enlightenment in the lifetime I am in. I trust my subconscious mind to bring forth this connection.”
Relaxing one’s body to reach a higher vibration, then stating this affirmation several times a day, will reach the Truth of the Self. Breathe deeply as you relax and say your affirmation, releasing all fears and doubts. Be patient and know that your request will be answered. Instruct the ego to suspend the judgments that keep it locked exclusively in error.
The truth about error is that errors are truths, but lower case truths. Capitalized Truths are far more comprehensive and magical because they issue from the more expansive Truth of the Self.
