Greetings!
There is a topic that keeps popping up all over the place in my life. When I go surfing, I go surfing with my awareness wide open. I deep listen to our media.
I have learned when something keeps popping up, to write about it. It is going to be integrated in the next of my ‘hercules’ series, ’cause it’s the riddle of ‘gemini’ and the “Gathering of the Golden Apples of Hesperides.”
I’m kinda’ *busy* right now and it is not the time for me to write this next one. I can, however, share the gist of it.
There are 3 levels of ‘mind’. Just like light comes in different spectrums, so does consciousness or awareness. These three are called Instinct, Intellect and Intuition.
Instinct is an expression of Love for Life. No mineral, plant or animal is going to choose to kill itself. And will defend its life, instinctually. Since we are all born of biology, we are all born with this Instinctual awareness. We are ’sons & daughters of Man.’
It takes the presence of the next level of mind, a ‘higher’ band along the spectrum, to Master our Instinctual level. It’s called Intellect. Basically it takes the ability to understand abstract thought to rein our horses in and not be the horse itself, running wild throughout the coutryside.
Once we can do this, the next level comes into operation: Intuition. This means connecting with all those feelings and emotions we ran into our heads to distance ourselves, from. We ran away. We tried to detach, disconnect, divorce, you name it, what ever put the most distance between us and our feelings, was what was in “style”.
These things that weigh heavy on our hearts are just too much to deal with. So let’s run away into our heads for a while.
I know the procedure. Done it many many times.
The things about it…is where ever we go, there we are. Our feelings are ours. They are a part of what makes us ‘Us’. We can pretend we don’t feel them, like stuffing them inside the closets of our bodies as if they were skeletons and spooks. But the only ones we fool are ourselves and, others of us that want support for our illusions of denial, too.
Our issue is Intimacy. Most of us are terrifed of it.
And the reason we are is because we know…that we aren’t that great at keeping all those skeletons and spooks stuffed inside of us. They escape every now and then or at the very least, make a bunch of racket with all those chains they rattle.
One of the things this transition is bringing to our shores, are a lot feelings we haven’t allowed ourselves to feel.
When these experiences happen, the wisest thing I can share is to look within. First, BREATHE. But don’t breathe like you were trying to mentally muscle up some courage in the face of fear. The more we do that, the more we add the power of our creative wills to the fear. That’s what I call the boomerang effect. Got whacked with that on more then one occasion. This monkey doesn’t press that button anymore.
Breathe in the feeling…the ones we don’t want to feel. Breathe WITH the flow instead of battling it. IT is going to ‘win’ anyway; we might as well not exhaust ourselves in the process. With the breathe will come the sensitivity to a Presence. We are NOT ALONE.
Spirit isn’t anyplace else. Don’t have to jump through any hoops, learn any lessons. Just breathe. And with every breathe the awareness of Spirit will come with it.
Love the parts of ourselves that we have denied. We’re still carrying the hurt. No matter how far we’ve run into our heads and technology trying to avoid it. We can’t get rid of it. Not an option.
We can transmute it. Change it. Uplift it. And heal it.
Then we live FREE of it!
Don’t be afraid of what ever comes up. Because the Spirit of Liberty is on the other side.
Sue Ann Edwards
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