5 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want Part II
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- Feb 14, 2018
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5 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want Part II is a continuation of the lessons from The 5 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want Part I.
If the first 5 spiritual lessons helped you to answer questions you had and brought clarity to your inner world, then these 5 lessons will certainty help you to enhance this revelation. This information is something that you already know. But nothing is truly learned until it is lived. Therefore my suggestion in approaching these lessons has several steps:
1. Sit quietly for a moment before you read each lesson.
2. Read the lesson and then sit for a few moments to absorb it. Reread it as often as you like. Allow yourself an opportunity for your own reactions and insights - these are often the most valuable things you can receive.
3. If the lesson contains a practical exercise, give yourself a few minutes to do the exercise.
5 Spiritual lessons that will guide you and transform your life for better.
Lesson 1. Consciousness is a field that exists everywhere
As we have already learned in Lesson 1 from the 5 Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want - Part I article, the ego has taken on the job of selecting and rejecting experiences. As a result, the ego creates isolation and a gap, between you and something that you have rejected. This fragmentation of the world brings shells of boundaries that no one else can penetrate. Not fully.
If we want to see the world in its real form, the first things we need to do is to set our ego and memories aside. Once that is done everything around - world, people, nature - no longer feels isolated.
With the individual mind (a mind of "I"), we narrow our awareness down and look at the world through a peephole. When we look at the world through the universal consciousness ("we are all one") we allow all thoughts, all emotions and all experiences to freely flow through our life.
Close your eyes and think of someone you know well - your husband, wife, a sibling or a friend. Bring her or him to your memory in detail and ask yourself what you really know about this person. Go beyond mere facts as hair color, home address or profession. Think instead about more personal traits, likes and dislikes, vivid memories and interactions. When you finish this exercise, you may assume that you have compiled an accurate portrait of that person. Yet everything you have recalled came from your memory, and therefore what you have described is your individual viewpoint (the individual mind of "I").
To understand this lesson we need to look behind the curtain of memory and start to discover the true fabric of reality, which is much bigger than the reality of "I".
Lesson 2. When the doors of perception are cleansed, you will begin to see the unseen world
When we are awake, we keep our attention glued to the sights and sounds of the material world, assuming that the physical body is the only body we have. But we also have other bodies. Bodies that can't be seen. Each human being has a physical body, emotional body, mental body and causal body.
All of these bodies are unique to each person. If your emotional body could walk into the room, your friends would recognize you immediately, since our emotional body gives a huge part of our identity. The same happens with your mental and causal bodies. Each of them are responsible for different parts of you, and yet again if your mental body or causal body could walk into a room you would be immediately identifiable.
To cleanse the doors of perception and put all our bodies in order we need to experience silence. One of the way to practice silence is to have regular sleep at night.
The next time you notice a passing moment of quietness, when you have no thoughts or desires or feelings, do not take it as absentmindedness. It is the time to observe the silence within you and enjoy the moment of now.
Lesson 3. A True Self's power is the power of love. An ego's power is a power of control.
The power of love is the power of purity.
Being invisible and ever - present, love is more than an emotion or a feeling: it is more than a pleasure or even ecstasy. From its universal source, love permeates everything. It is the ultimate power, because without using force, love brings everything to it. Even in suffering, love's power continues its work, far out of sight of the ego and mind. Compared with love, all other forms of power are feeble.
To achieve love as a complete, unshakable aspect of your life, you need to learn to set ego aside. Real love has nothing to do with the ego. Ego creates layers of isolation, fear, habit, selfishness and anger that prevent you to experience love. Love is what we can trust and what brings order and peace into our life.
Start to develop trust to yourself by beginning to accept yourself because you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.
Lesson 4. Every intention leads to some result
The power of words lies not in their surface meaning but in qualities hidden from view. Every word enfolds both knowledge and intention. Both of these are magical qualities. But the second quality of words - intention - is even more powerful.
To make a word come true you need to frame it with intention. Whenever a word is backed up by intention, it enters the field of awareness as a message or request. The universe is being put on notice that you have a certain desire. Nothing more is required to make desires come true than this, because the computing ability of universal awareness is infinite. All messages are heard and acted upon. Therefore every word with intention leads to some result.
To experience this lesson take a little time every day to notice the contents in your mind. This act of noticing, although very simple, is one of the most powerful steps to bring about change.
Then fulfill your intentions with a clear message. This step is completely natural, but it also has to be learned. Get the ego, with all its expectations and anticipations, to step aside. Release your intentions into your message.
Finally, be natural and easy with the whole process. When all these steps come together, your intention will enter the field of awareness, which acts like a transmute and connects your individual thought with all that is.
Lesson 5. When you can live with all your opposite qualities, you will be living your life fully
When you look closely inside yourself, you will find there are many personalities competing for the use of your body. These personalities are usually in conflict and the only state that can bring this conflict down is the state of happiness.
Personalities are always made of the same thing - some old energy attached to a memory. Because you have memories with happy as well as painful associations, inner personalities come in pleasant and unpleasant forms. These opposing memories don't cancel each other out and instead continue their integrity and conflict with their opposites.
To end this war inside yourself, you need to bring the conflict among all personalities to an end. When old energy is released the inner war is finished too.
There are several ways of releasing old energies. One of the most powerful is simply to acknowledge that they are there. Instead of denying that you feel shame or blame, for example, look at yourself and just say, "This is how I feel." Overcome denial and half the battle is won. Acknowledgment is a form of self - acceptance. You don't have to say, "It's okay to feel shame and blame," but instead it's certainly okay to say, "I have these feelings. They are real."
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