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Page 3 of 3 Feelings further serve to make you right. Suffice it to say that emotions tend to confirm 'stuff'. Although, it is important in our spiritual growth to listen to and acknowledge our feelings, they are feedback as to the 'content of our mind' and not the 'truth'. Always valid, feelings tell us a great deal about the 'stuff' we carry. Learn to express your feelings, and remember that your aren't your feelings, you have them. If you don't you will be had by your feelings. Don't repress, express. When you learn that it is o.k. to have feelings, they stop having you. Ask your self often, "Is that a feeling I am having or is that feeling having me?" What you won't or can't express owns you.
Feelings generate behaviors. Our tendency is to behave automatically in direct alignment with our emotions. For example, it is hard to dance around the house when we feel depressed. And oppositely, it is hard to mope around when we feel enthusiastic about something. The next layer of experience is our outward behavior and the actions we take.
And finally the last layer of experience is results. We have results that are in alignment with how we behave, that are in alignment with how we are feeling, that are in alignment with our mind's content. Simply put, we will tend to unconsciously operate from unquestioned beliefs, positions, judgments, and opinions that we built solely for the purpose of survival. Much of the content of the mind is in contradiction with our essence. We had to learn how not to trust in order to survive. We thought. We learned how to be afraid. We learned how to lie, or at least hold back. We learned how to give up. We began to sell out our essence for the sake of survival.
From this model it is possible to see that results tend to confirm content of the mind. The content of the mind reconfirms the results we create. You become your 'stuff'.
Results tend to confirm content, creating more results that tend confirm content. We end up being right about life. The content of our mind reconfirms the content of our life, and vice versa. Even if something outside of our beliefs show up, you simply explain it as the "exception that proves the rule." Around and around we go exclaiming, "I am doing the best I can." Have you noticed any patterns in your life?
But now you are to begin to remember that you are more than 'stuff'. You are the genius that builds ‘stuff.’ You are more than your mind. You are the genius that built it. You built it to survive. And survive you have, as evidenced by the fact you are reading this. Once you have acknowledged that you have survived and survival is now a given, you can get on with what you are destined to do after survival. You are to thrive! If you operate directly from this essence and not just from content of the mind, you’ll display more of your natural state of joy and satisfaction. This occurs first from the declaration to do so and from nothing else. You accomplish this alignment by doing the work, not just knowing about the work. Most people's lives atrophy not because they don't want to or don't know how to be alive, but rather they just don't want to pay the price of doing the work. They would rather be asleep. There are clear consequences from being asleep. One of the consequences is that you miss be fully alive. The only way to know you have been asleep is to wake up. So, wake up. If you have not experienced waking up in some part of your life, then you are simply asleep in that area.
Notice you aren't your mind, you have a mind.
Once you have accomplished that, you will then be able to use your mind from that awareness. The mind is a tool, an incredible tool. You built this tool. Wake-up and learn about your mind. Learn to observe it. Learn to use it. Think for your Self. A carpenter knows he isn't his skill-saw. If he thought otherwise he wouldn't be able to use it effectively. He would end up cutting himself, or even worse. A good carpenter is very conscious when he uses a power-tool; otherwise he will pay the consequence, the possible loss of a limb! Your mind is the ultimate power-tool, and requires no less consciousness; otherwise there will be consequences in your life you might not want to pay.
An unobserved mind tends to go for being right about its ‘stuff,’ rather than having life work at any other level, let alone joy and satisfaction. You can start now to operate more in alignment with natural essence and less from simple mind content. Stop being a simple recording of your beliefs and express your essence. Results that are sourced directly from essence are extraordinary and seemingly miraculous. Living your life from essence is mastery. You are the thinker of the thoughts and the dreamer of the dreams, and entitled to live that way.
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