Who or What is Hindering You?

Are you the type who agrees with mass consciousness regarding time, diagnoses, symptoms or aging? Frequently, we hear from self-help practitioners that we must get out of the box. This means we have crippled ourselves with chalk-marks that make a claim that we must accept conditions and allow a state of paralysis to keep us in bondage. What is interesting is the fact that the conditions can actually disappear if we finally grasp the truth that we had fallen prey to the rules of the game of human life.

If a person is told he has an incurable disease, the amount of chalk marks hindering his mind jumps much higher. At the same time, if told there is nothing that can be done, the prisoner may decide to cross the line and try a totally different approach rather than allow his life to end. Regardless of what type of ugliness, lack or nonsenses appears in your life, why not dismiss it? I am not implying you should stop your treatment if that is the case. What I am suggesting is taking a second look at anything that is hindering you from living from the highest perspective of you soul. Hindrances, chalk marks, limitations ar the enemy. This sounds bold but it is an ancient truth. To be released from any human condition and struggle, we are required to awaken to our true spiritual identity. I keep going back to identity because it is the tool that opens the box.

When you awaken to your spiritual identity something rather remarkable occurs. Divine harmony, a security and balance, a secret love and assurance is yours. You see, nasty conditions or situations will not change and you will not be able to cross over your chalk marks as long as you accept as your truth that sin, a disease, aging or any lack and limitation is an actual truth. Oh, yes, it appears as if they are happening to you and the majority of people. A very unusual thing happens when your consciousness shifts to a higher perspective. The unreal is exposed. What I am saying is worth thinking about. What troubles you is actually an illusion that you accept as true. Change your mind. In changing your mind, hold your understanding as a real conviction. I would suggest you keep silent about your new discovery particularly if you are under stress and strain. We fall into traps of lack, limitation and disease because we have allowed ourselves to become mesmerized. As you are healing or changing the conditions in your life, look deeply into your thinking and whether you harbor any undesirable character traits. Because we live in matter and are strongly influenced by world consciousness, it could be that you are unknowingly picking up on energy that is weakening your own life force. This does not to continue.

Seeing God Face to Face

Yes, it took me awhile to reach the state of mind where I saw myself correctly and could view others for what they really are. I am certain you have read in scripture or other writings that we cannot see God face to face. Yes, we can. Every time we look at each other we are seeing God appearing as an individual being. The human may not know this truth but it is truth nonetheless. God, the spirit, the energy of life, can appear in any form. We see God every day every where. What you see outside of your self may not be perfect in its appearance or behavior and what others see in you may appear lacking or even unattractive. The simple truth is that you are still seeing God face to face.

This truth applies to minerals, plants, animals, humans and souls in the subtle worlds. The sacred is appearing as all living manifestations. To really accept this reality requires a developed consciousness. It means you will need to train yourself to look past the appearance of everything you see including your own body and behavior. It takes practice to see clearly. When you finally grasp that behind ugliness and suffering IS God AS ugliness and suffering, you lose your fear, ignorance and confusion.

The gift of seeing the truth behind manifestation with a strong inner conviction alters consciousness in such a way that you will not fear anything. Since the majority of souls do not understand their true identity, they judge by the appearance and not the holiness behind the appearance. If all humans understood that they were wearing a skin for the sole purpose of being divinity in form, we would have harmony, love and wisdom ruling on earth. Instead, it is still the blind leading the blind. We are consciousness, a consciousness that is ignored more than it is cherished. What we are and what is materially around us is not an illusion of its self. It is our concept of it that is the illusion. Concepts need to be changed in order for intelligence to recognize what is reality. Reality pertains to what we recognize through an inner awareness. All the discords of the world are discords of the physical senses and not the spirit.

What is Our Responsibility?

Originally, we came from the Great Central Sun located at the center of the universe. I am speaking of our higher Self, the spirit Nature. The problem with an attraction to matter is that the higher Self is usually not fully active. It gradually becomes fully active when the awakening process begins. If you were baking a chocolate cake, it would require a list of ingredients to be perfect. What if you left out the sweetest ingredient, the chocolate? Well, this is exactly how many souls live their lives...minus the sweetest part of all.

Individual spirits chose to leave perfection, a center, a Home vibrating in love, wisdom, purity and infinite good to experience creativity in matter. We left the Center to experience the periphery. The how and when of our return is through the development of a spiritual consciousness. God is the One and only Power in a spiritual universe. When we are ready, it is finally realized that we are to bring ourselves into accord with that Power. We understand that we are to use the powers and gifts for good with love, compassion and discernment and not for selfish reasons.

How we survive destructive appearances in our lives is the direct result of our not giving power to things that destroy, meaning earthly negative desires. If we harbor fear, we lose our balance and certainty. The only true battle that we have in the flesh is to regain the consciousness we once had. Is your belief focused on material power or do you rest your case in the One Power? We can prove that the One Power is victorious when we become quiet and create a conscious connection to our own divinity. Personal divinity is aligned with the Impersonal Divinity...The One. When we can face any appearance that threatens our life with complete confidence in our spirit connection, our inner light expands dissolving the problem. This take total faith and persistence and a transcending love. You must believe it is so.

God Has Power Over What?

God evidently hasn't power over disease, war, death and all the other negatives. When you fully understand that the Creative Principle that the majority refer to as God is not responsible for what happens to us, then you are evolving. If we understand that the nature of God is infinite love, infinite wisdom and good, then it finally dawns on us that God could not have created the ongoing nightmares on planet earth. All the uglies are created by man.

The only real power in the universe is the One Power who we lamely refer to as God. This One Power reigns in the spiritual universe. What happens in the physical-material universe(s) is the result of our demonstration of creativity through desire. There is only this indescribable infinite Intelligent Beingness but since the conscious mind of man is confused and feels separated from the One, chaos reigns. The typical human has a stronger belief in material power than right thinking. What does this have to do with you and me? Nothing ugly or negative can have power over us if we keep our mind and heart centered in the One Power.

You can prove this when the various nasty manifestations present themselves in your life. The imbalances existing in our personal and global lives are not being looked upon or handled from a spiritual wisdom perspective. When we individually reach the point in consciousness where we can look at the manifestations of darkness and realize that the appearances are man created, not created by the One Power, more light blazes in our consciousness. Being in this wide awake and true state of mind removes the fiction in our lives. It is up to us to stay at the center of our being. This is where the One Power resides. Accept and know that the Light that is within you has the power to dissolve the disorder personally and impersonally once you are consistent and brave enough to allow your true nature control.

What is God?

What do you feel God is? How do you know there is a God? Have you seen God? Can God be described? If not, why bother discussing this question? Where did you learn about God? This last question is a very good one because most people learn about God from someone else. How many souls have learned about God as a result of an inner experience versus being taught by another's concept of God? Jesus realized a complete oneness with God and from personal experience could say with authority that the Father God lives within. In other words, all the grace, love and powers that humankind seeks, we already have.

Humans call God Father or Mother or both because the One Absolute Energy is a Universal Creative Principle whose infinite nature is an all-embracing love. Now, if you really desire to experience the goodness and grace of God, you are required to align yourself with the Creative Principle. One way of doing just that is to contemplate truth. If you really understand your own relationship with Creative Principle, the Infinite Intelligence, the Indescribable and know It as love, your problems are solved. It is not that the One Power and Presence prefers some people over others; the relationship and interaction is the direct result of whether or not we have an awareness of God.

Many of us prefer not to use the name God because it is limited in its general meaning for most people. The name does not begin to describe what the One Power actually is. Yes, we can see that Power in nature, in people and in the universe. This power is an infinite Intelligence that we personally know as immortality, infinity, goodness, health and harmony, grace and abundance. All the aspects of Divine Love exist in us already. When we pray, it is far wiser to ask, seek, and knock for more radiant Light, greater spiritual wisdom and discernment so we can fully accept the spirit identity that we own already. I have mentioned in other Blogs how joy is missing on planet earth. One of the reasons joy is missing is that people are so reluctant to opening themselves to what is buried within. Why not listen to the inner Voice and with confidence allow the inner to express through the outer? Instead of talking about what is God, we are demonstrating the Indescribable.

Why Seek a Spiritual Healing?

Have you found that when all physical, mental, moral and financial discords are removed that you still feel an inner unrest? Unrest continues until we make a direct and constant connection to the Source of our life. Finding our inner spirit and making that contact lifts us into a new consciousness of life. In seeking a spiritual healing, we are lifted into a grander dimension of consciousness where physical limitations do not operate. Our motivating force needs to be finding the connection to Divinity because man is not the healer.

Spiritual healing is very different, actually strange. We do not require training regarding body parts, nor do we have to engage in special hand movements or statements of truth. It appears revolutionary because all we have to do is BE and the One Power and One Presence does the work. People have difficulty grasping this state of mind because all the evidence in the world appears to be contrary. To understand what I am trying to convey requires preparation of the mind, heart and soul. It is necessary for the individual acting as the transmitter of divine power to feel confident and be in a state of harmony surrendering the process to the higher good of the patient. Focusing on matter is not the answer.

You see, there is something available that is really not known by the human mind. The Light is the means by which healing occurs. Light appears as a result of devotion to God, the Supreme Spirit. As soon as Light becomes a part of your consciousness, it benefits you as well as those who come to you. Every time you lift and sustain a sublime state of consciousness, more light vibrates in the world of matter. The nature of the Light, the divinity of our true Self, is good, loving, wise and truthful. To be a true healer of self and others requires a steady awareness of the Light, which has always existed. Healing on every level occurs or unfolds according to the proportion of our conscious awareness of a higher Reality. Although it is a high power that does the actual healing, we are required to bring our own state of being into awareness of that truth. It is then that healing takes place.

A New Beginning

Being at the beginning of a new year, a new story, an adventure that we create, I was reminded of the late great master teacher, Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov and his comments on this subject. He emphasized how important it is as to how we begin things and what state of mind we are in and what our intentions are. The results we reap throughout life, successes and failures, depend on how we began them. Before we begin anything new whether it be a new year, relationship, project or destination, it is wisdom to first center ourselves. We do this through the many tools offered such as breathing exercises, mantras, prayer, meditation or visualization. The result is a calm and focused feeling, an attitude that will create a good energy and the ability to find the right words.

Beginning anything new can be looked upon as a quest. How we feel about the new beginning is what we birth. Every day can be a new beginning. Freshness may take time or it can happen suddenly over night. Our responsibility is to open the mind, ask, see and envision it. To begin again, we must be willing. To align with destiny, which I firmly believe we create, we must not tire of trying. It is exciting to begin again because it is a way to tap into the mystery of who we really are.

In the classes I teach on the subject of manifestation through mantras, emphasis is placed on the importance of beginning whatever it is with Celestial help. There is a Hindu god called Lord Ganesha. He is the symbol of one who has discovered the Divinity within himself. Lord Ganesha has tremendous popularity in India and outside of India. People who love what he symbolizes invoke his energy before they begin any project. Lord Ganesha's energy will tell us where the obstacles are so we do not waste time in going through struggle and disappointment. Many people use his mantra and name at the beginning of a meditation session or at the beginning of a project. The recitation is for removing obstacles (physical, emotional, mental, financial and spiritual). It behooves us to use the tools available with reverence and gratitude.