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Saturday, June 20, 2009
You Create Your Own Reality
A friend brought to my attention this week the tragic shooting of a security guard in a place that was erected as a memorial to the holocaust of WWII. I can’t bear to perceive all the pain that this caused so many people. What I can do is choose the perceptions with which I view the scenario to lessen the pain, or my perceptions of pain. I have only to bear what is in front of me at the moment as every person I encounter in my day has so much to carry and I can only touch each person I encounter. Maybe this note will allow me to touch a greater number, suggesting a different way to possibly perceive a very tragic moment in our world, lessening its blows on the emotions of society.
In my own belief structure at this point I believe that God has a purpose for all things and that not even a blade of grass moves without His/Her knowingness and reason. We know nothing of other’s history and motivations in life and we constantly make judgments of what drives people to do what they do, when we really have no clue of God’s plan. So, we can deliberately choose a perception which creates more unity than separation, choosing the path of less pain. Saying it is our brother that created this act, or even some part of ourselves could have gone crazy with all the exploitations of violence in the world around us to drive us to absolutely insane actions. That person could be our self that has so many imbalances.
Rather than pointing fingers at others we should focus on creating more unity through our perceptions which will decrease the pain within ourselves that some of us feel when observing the world around us. It sometimes takes me weeks to change my perceptions, so there is a decrease in my consciousness of duality between myself and another. Upon achieving this there is less pain in my reality of being.
I’m happy I didn’t choose to play the role of some crazy person, ravaged by anger, due to overwhelming fear and misunderstanding and misplaced judgments of other cultures grouped together taken out on one person in a National Memorial.
How do you choose to view your world?
Do you want to create more pain and separation, or more peace and love?
With either perception, we still must observe the actions of others using our own discretion and looking within our hearts if we choose to be better witnesses of the world around us. Not to go out and preach, but to sit back and observe, taking the thorn from our own eyes, before we pull it out of our brothers. We do not know any part of God’s plan except He wants only good for us.
How do we reach for that “good”?
It is each and every one of our choices on the perceptions we want to hold in our minds to create varying sensations in our hearts which will create our perceptible reality.
Many blessings on your journey.
Dr. Samantha Joseph
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Teacher is Truly You II
This also applies to the fact when we think we keep getting the same reaction from someone else to what we say or do we need to start taking a look at why they are reacting that way. Is it us or them? It may be a truth about ourselves we don’t want to face. That’s a large issue for most people. They keep thinking that the other person is always giving them flak about an issue, well, maybe there is some truth in the flak, it’s probably a subtle truth we don’t want to acknowledge within ourselves so we keep hearing it from others when its really that we want to grow and change and so we keep hearing a repeated pattern. And, maybe we are holding them to a reaction with our filters not allowing them to change. Maybe they have changed how they are reacting but we cant see it or hear it as we’ve come to expect the old reaction from them and so we just consistently overlay what they are saying with what we think they are saying. It’s a very complex game we play with ourselves.
I know this is esoteric, and may be difficult to understand without examples. We’ll see what we can do. I will use the term us and them to represent aspects of broad interpersonal interaction. We can probably see ourselves in each aspect of the interactions.
An example: A person approaches us with some reason we need to change to make their own reactions more comfortable for them to handle. Well, say it’s a subject we don’t want to discuss. On both sides of this conversation there are things to be learned. The first person probably is in reaction with us because they need to be honest with themselves about why they are reacting. Maybe it’s a subtle truth that they need to really look at within themselves that they don’t want to acknowledge. i.e. - they are irritated with us because they clearly see our lack of self confidence, it is possibly irritating them as it may actually be some aspect of how they feel about themselves, it could just be a mirror for some aspect of themselves they want to improve and it flares them up as they don’t want to look at it, or maybe they don’t want to see us suffer, so they’re in reaction as some part of them is suffering with their own thoughts and feelings about themselves. Only they can take the journey within to truly understand why they are reacting. No one else can do this for them. They have to take their own inner journey to grow, possibly seeking advice from a teacher until they get their own “ahha” in agreement with a shoe that fits. As each person will overlay their own filters in the observance of anothers actions and reactions we have to ultimately find the truth within ourselves for what it is we are supposed to learn.
Back to the initial exaple i.e. – they are irritated with us as they are hearing us call them a user, are we really calling them that or not, well, they are possibly irritated as some part of them is a user and they don’t want to look at it and that’s why they are hearing that. If we react, maybe we are the user, or maybe we are learning that we need to be more honest in the moment, or if we are in reaction why is that, can we change it, do we need to modify ourselves or can we drop it and move on. That is our journey. If we are not in reaction have we become numb to our genuine love for others, has it become too painful to feel, or is it truly not effecting us, but it’s probably wisest to see what role we play. I refuse to believe it’s all the other person, and I refuse to believe anymore it’s all our fault, the only truth is to be found within, through conversations internally through reflection. Talk to God regarding illumining your heart and soul so that you may know the truth. It is your journey within that will unfold for you what you came here to learn. If you don’t want to do the work as you say you don’t care why would you be reading my blog.
The bible speaks of removing the thorn from our own eye before we take it from another. It would have been nicer if they had given more examples of how to do this, but I think it comes down to us being honest with ourselves. A daunting task of self -evaluation. Please don’t create the task of self-devaluation only looking for what’s wrong. See the reaction, love yourself and move on. Love you as God loves you with total compassion, and mercy, seeing only light and love with you. Change the reaction or behavior pattern, empower yourself and enjoy your life. May the blessings of the One that created us all be upon you forever and that we all find more joy in continuing to walk forward upon our journey back to God.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Teacher is Truly You
You know, wearing the hats we wear in our lives gives us many opportunities to shift our awareness as we continue on our own path of self growth. Just because in one aspect of our life we are a formal teacher – which takes many forms: parent, doctor, spiritual teacher, school teacher, judge, etc. does not mean that we wear that hat well in all aspects of our lives. We each have something to learn from all of our own reactions and interactions with people.
If we are choosing to isolate ourselves for fear of interpersonal reactions then we have to get over it and step out into life and start living. We can only control our OWN reactions. Even that is sometimes difficult. If we are in reaction we need to stop and look within to see the truth and possibly modify our perceptions so we can be happier in our lives. Of course, only if happiness is important to you. Considering that most of our country has been found to be deficient in Prozac I believe this is a hot point for discussion.
Even if we get sad or dejected if someone tells us we are doing something wrong. Well, be honest, were we doing something wrong, or is it their actions that should be modified. It is our own judgment that causes us the pain, so drop the judgment or change the behavior, whether it’s to someone else or to ourselves. Maybe the person standing in judgment needs to take a deeper look within themself. This requires intense honesty within each of us if we actually want to be alignment with right action, which of course, not all people want to be. I’m writing this for people who want to do good and be better. This is for each of our personal journeys within to be closer to God, and in greater alignment with the path of right action not to create more separation, self violence putting ourselves down, but creating better honesty with ourselves, learning to love ourselves more not from a place of vanity, but from genuine compassion for ourself and others. Whether they acknowledge their own journey to the path of truth or not everyone is on it.
I see many people who forget to take of their hats worn as roles in life and remember they are still growing too. We are on a journey that has no end point. The path absorbs an ever increasing knowledge base that grows its breadth as we learn more. The people who get stuck with their role hats on want always to remain with the larger knowledge base. It doesn’t work, but we can play that game if we choose to. It creates its own dynamics. People tend to lean on them to consistently pull that aspect out of that person for learning. Who is keeping who trapped in that role? It’s an entertaining journey that can be enjoyed if we are willing to take our power and look within to see how WE are contributing to the thoughts, feelings, and interpersonal relationships that are manifested in our lives.
It’s amazing to me that so many times we can teach, or read the truths and yet not be aware of our own actions or reactions mimicking what we need to learn that is clearly coming up for us in the moment. It is interesting for me to see how we so easily look outside of ourselves at others patterns but are so not willing to look at our own. Some of this is ego and some the voice of the fire keeping us from being as bright as we know we can be. Remember, we are created in the divine image, there is only light within, we just have to uncover it.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Well, guess what? If we learn how to be emotionally honest with ourselves in every moment, not anyone else, we would be completely clued into our innate guidance systems. Our guidance system lets us know what is good for us, where it is wise for us to be or not to be, who we should hang out with or who it is wise to share our intimate thoughts with, etc.. There is more peace in our lives when we are guided and conscious of it in the moment and acting upon it therein. Trusting our own connection to divine guidance and not always looking outside of ourselves for confirmation or approval would be a powerful way to live if we acted in integrity. Woo-woo! Doesn’t that feel liberating?
The less than positive emotions tend not to rise in our bodies when we are in emotional integrity within ourselves. Remember the study Braden sited regarding DNA shortening with stress and therefore not being able to express itself appropriately. It would most likely result in defective cellular regeneration. This would mean that if we remain in emotional integrity with ourselves that in the future there would be no need to struggle with releasing old energy patterns that no longer serve us. They would be dealt with in the moment not decreasing optimum cellular integrity over time. Wouldn’t that have been wonderful to have learned in childhood?
Identifying our feelings in the moment and expressing them if necessary, being observant of how people respond, and being honest about what we feel keeps our bodies, mind and spirit clear of negative influences. When we are in harmony with ourselves, harmony increases all around us. There is then no resistance to interactions with others or God. What a novel concept.
Imagine all of the heart disease that would have been avoided. Of course, this would have required that someone would have guided us on this journey since childhood, or we would have incarnated in a very conscious state. Kudos to those of you who were blessed with wise parents or great teachers and many blessing to all of us on this journey of life.
