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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Mark
January 13th, 2008 - 3:17 pm
Bl**dy h*ll, Sue Ann – I’ve only just read this but it’s what I’ve been doing instinctively the last few days! I was talking to you a week or so ago about *embracing* negative feelings to deal with them and I’ve been trying to think of ways to do this. I’m working on a post on this at the moment – it may take a few weeks! – and in trying to explain it, I’ve been trying to think of other circumstances in which we embrace what might appear to be unpleasant. The strongest image which came to mind was going for a walk on the sea shore on a blustery day. It’s cold, it’s wet, but if you soak it up, it’s wonderful! And what do you do as you walk along? You breathe it in!
Thanks for helping me get my head around this one! And as you say, as you breathe, the feeling transmutes…
January 13th, 2008 - 4:36 pm
“it’s what I’ve been doing instinctively the last few days!”
Hmm, sure it’s “instinct” or maybe….it’s your “intuition”. Recognize what that means in affirmation of your own desires upon your journey.
You are sensing The Presence. “Intuition” is ‘instinctual, to ‘It’. That might be why it feels sort of the same way. But the polarization is different. No resistance or opposition to feeling is being created. No (negative). Only embracing. Only (positive).
Separation fused. Wounding healed as soon as it is embraced in Acceptance. It’s called Self Acceptance and how we get to the stage of being Whole Human Beings. We’re whole-sum. We feel whole because we have embraced the sum total of all of our experiences in Life.
Feelings, stored in memory, are transmuted/changed, from ‘bad’ and ‘density holding us down’. End result is that we are uplifted. Permanently. No more carousel rides eventually, as our balance is centered within us and confidence in our abilities to master any situation. Our Identity starts to blur between who we imagine ourselves to be and that Presence, until finally we KNOW ourselves to be that Presence and always have been that Presence, all along.
That’s what the word “sacrifice” means. To uplift. Not to negate, diminish, demean or extinguish.
Sacrifice is the way to self-more-ness, not self-less-ness.
January 16th, 2008 - 8:01 am
when I say the word sacrifice out loud after reading this, I hear in it now the word suffice too.
January 16th, 2008 - 2:04 pm
What WONDERFUL and SPOT ON Insight!
“Suffice”…’sufficient’, ‘enough’, ‘meeting requirements’…
*perfect*
Because that’s what happens over the upliftment process. Self Doubt is replaced with Self Assured. It has nothing to do with Controlling and everything to do with response ability.
If I were a harp, what tones are played on my strings, with every passing breeze or tweak? What are my responses?
What makes me *different* now then what I used to be, is all in my responses. Instead of resonating in accord with what is outside of me, I resonate another tone.
It’s why I’m *mean* when it comes to not claiming ownership over anyone else’s emotions. Because I am powerless to do anything with them or about them.
I am powerless when it comes to uplifting anyone else. That Power comes from within. It is the Spirit, The Presence within the Heart of each and every single one of us, that supplies that Power.
With it, comes both power over our own reality and Self realization.
Mastery is mastery of self. Not master over or of anyone or anything else. It’s only when we’re in total denial of our genuine Power, that we play silly games of conflicting to overpower.
The game of ‘overpowering’ is in alignment with behaving like critters of the forest. It is part of our animal/biological nature. It takes our higher nature (Spirit) to DISCIPLINE our beast. Discipline is not punishment nor rejection. It is the willpower necessary to tame, to bring under our Sovereignty.
It takes Beauty to Love the Beast, not another Beast to overpower it. All this does is lead to more and more beastly behavior. Whether it’s stags rutting or squirrels hording nuts for the winter, it’s all beastly behavior.
Since I know I have no power over another, you won’t find me claiming any. All I have the Power to do is Inspire, to cheer and encourage us onward!
Be unafraid of stepping out into left field. I’ve lived here all my life. It might be unknown but it’s not unknowable.
{{hugs}}
January 17th, 2008 - 7:16 am
thank you for this meaning Sue Ann, when I was at work yesterday I was thinking a little more about this word, and thought arg, I probably just heard the end of it, fice, and why I heard suffice, but you were able to see this and extend it and so now it feels not like an end, but a beginning.:)
November 2nd, 2009 - 12:40 pm
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