Posts tagged Illusion
Universal Energy – Align With It – Eleven Tips
Dec 29th
When your intentions are aligned with the Universe’s energy, rather than, a mere personal caprice or doing something on a whim, then you are working with the current of becoming. The expression, ‘Go with the flow,’ is the message from the Universal energies that prevail.
Allow yourself to become who you truly are, without forcing the current. You only need to understand that you are part of the magnificent whole, eternal, infinite and good. When you understand this, your life expands in a growing exponential expression of that good. ‘Flow with whatever is transpiring and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.’ – Chuang Tzu
Align with the Universe’s energy:
- Remember: You influence things. Controlling anything is an illusion.
- Become aware: Notice your thoughts, feelings, behavior (actions) second by second. What are your thoughts, feelings, behavior (action) creating?
- Breathe: A deep breath allows you to remain calm and do what you need to do in the moment.
- Maintain Perspective: Take a step back from a frustrating situation. A week, month, or year from now this incident will matter little. Few will remember the incident, but, everyone, including you, will remember, if there was a huge drama about it. This too shall pass. Let it go.
- Step by Step: Taking the first step is the most difficult. Notice how a child learns to walk – one step and then another and another. Just take the first step.
- Practice – Practice – Practice: No one became proficient at anything without practice. Become a commensurate learner and you will move your results more quickly.
- Maintain a Sense of Humor: Laughter has been proven to be the best medicine. Laugh at yourself, even during a big struggle. Life contains many ironies, paradoxes and absurdities – learn to see the funny side of everything, albeit sometimes laughing out loud would be inappropriate for those who are involved.
- Keep a record of your ‘To Do’ items and progress: Go over your day. Examine: What worked, and if not, what needs to be changed? Recollection and examination will help you learn how to be more effective.
- Avoid Frustration build-up – take a break: De-stressing is important to maintain your focus. Take deep breaths. Detach and be an observer. Relaxation will improve your learning process.
- Control of others: Accept that people have habits and behaviors that are different from yours to avoid being frustrated. Influence and negotiation will assist you in creating the best outcome. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao-Tzu
- Accept imperfection and change: Change is a fact of life. Accept that everything is constantly in a state of change, and you are part of that change. Instead of seeking perfection; accept what is ‘good enough.’ Life is a flow of change, chaos and beauty: Life is constantly in flux and change. Beauty is abundant even in the midst of messiness, chaos, pain, sadness and fear. The Universe is perfect to the nth degree to create the learning experience you need. ‘Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.’ – Lao-Tzu
Experiment with these suggestions. Have fun and let yourself go with the Universe’s energy flow.
A New Consciousness Ending the Conspiracy of Ineffectiveness Part II
Nov 14th
Questioner: Edward, why are you calling our way of living a conspiracy to be ineffective?
Edward: Well, as I said earlier, to conspire means to breathe together. The conspiracy is so deeply ingrained in us that we are actually breathing it together. Do you see what I’m saying? We don’t get together like in a football game where the team gets in a huddle and they all say, “OK you go down and to the right. You go down to the left, and this guy’s going to run over there.” They make a plan and then they come up to the ball, snap it, and do their thing. Well, in our lives we don’t huddle together and say “OK! Let’s everybody do less than we can actually do. Let’s pretend that we’re being real.” We don’t do that. It’s conspired; it’s breathed. It is so deep that it’s an unspoken conspiracy that we will remain in the illusion and believe our way through life. When we start off in life, we aren’t being ourselves. We’re not being the real live entity that was born. We’re being the entity we were forced to be after our birth. So isn’t that in itself ineffective?
Q: How would we be now if we were as we were at our birth? We didn’t know anything at our birth.
E: There isn’t any way of knowing that because there hasn’t been anybody in thousands of years who was simply born and grew who wasn’t forced to be ineffective. There is not anyone who was not forced into being a false entity.
Q: What are we doing that’s making us false?
E: We’re being our personality rather than ourselves.
Q: What’s wrong with being our personality?
E: Personality is something that you invent for yourself to be rather than being the self that you are.
Q: We usually hear that we’re born with a certain personality.
E: Well that’s malarkey. We’re born as perfect individuals with no personality and no hates. We’re not born hating black people if we’re white, and we’re not born hating white people if we’re black. We’re not born being a Christian or a Muslim or a Catholic. All of that is learned. We’re taught all of that nonsense.
Q: So you’re saying the ineffectiveness is actually what we’ve learned.
E: What we’ve learned, yes.
Q: What should we be learning?
E: That’s not a known. We don’t know.
Q: Might that not be worse than what we’re learning now?
E: Well I don’t know. Can you think of anything worse than what we are now? Look at the suffering and the misery. Look at the people on the planet not being themselves, the way they are born. Look at all the greed and the violence and the wars and the people killing themselves and the drinking and the alcohol and the drugs and all of the things on this planet. I suppose things could be worse than that, but I don’t think so.
