Equal Opportunity in Consciousness
By admin on Oct 17, 2007 in - Energy Work -, - Wealth-Being -
Give the Super-conscious and the Subconscious Equal Time to Practice True Spirituality
NOTE: This is an article by my friends, Layne and Paul Cutright, the Relationship Experts I’ve told you about. I liked it so much I thought I’d share it with you here. Angela
If you focus for too long on the limitations within your mind, you start to over-identify with your pain, your story, your psychological “case.” You can get hooked on processing your painful childhood and not notice that you’re stuck in a self-created loop, recycling old material over and over again. This happens especially when you get a lot of love, support, or positive reinforcement for doing your healing work, or “feeling your feelings.”
The fear is that if you stop “processing,” you’ll lose the love, praise, and attention. You don’t seem to get the lift-off necessary to move you from self-absorption to self-realization.
On the other hand, if you retreat into meditation and use it as an anesthetic, you can end up dissociating yourself from the valuable learning opportunities of life; you can become an ungrounded space cadet. If you use meditation as a way of avoiding your lower nature, you never do the necessary work to transform it, and you find your life does little to reflect the glory of the divine. You can feel bliss from time to time, but you can’t do anything worthwhile in the world to save your life.
While you sit on your meditation cushion, you can feel a transcendent love pulsing through you, but as soon as you look into the eyes of someone who’s disappointed in you, it vanishes. You can fill your mind with spiritual ideas but remain disconnected from the authentic power to realize them.
True spiritual practice means you work on both aspects simultaneously. You’ll find that the clearing (emotional) work, allows your mountaintop epiphanies to translate into authentic spiritual action in the world and especially in your most intimate relationships.
Ask yourself if you’re giving both aspects their due, or if you’re putting too much emphasis on one over the other. If you see lopsidedness, endeavor to correct it.
If you’re wandering around with your head in the clouds, take a look at what’s going on in your day-to-day, tangible life and deal with it.
If you’re wallowing in your “stuff,” get your head out and get out of your head.
Meditate. Breathe. Celebrate life. Acknowledge what’s uplifting in the mundane. Spend time honoring your soul and your spiritual nature.
warmly,
Layne and Paul Cutright
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