In my past Blog Series, I suggested to you that in matters of diet, as in the eating of specific foods, that it was more important what the eater THOUGHT of the food. What matters most are the images, circular thoughts, essential ideas that you-the-eater entertain within your mental environment before, during, and after eating food. These influences have a very direct effect upon the digestion. So for example, if you eat a small piece of chocolate, say, that is on your FORBIDDEN list of foods, you would have, perhaps, a quite negative reaction to the food. “Chocolate makes me fat,” you may say to yourself as you eat it. That statement is a profound suggestion to your subconscious that you immediately, upon eating any chocolate, must begin the process of turning it into fat. Your digestive system will obey dutifully this suggestion as you reinforce it with negative imagery, negative emotion, and so on. In addition, this sets up an unfortunate dis-empowering dynamic in which you play the naughty child that must be punished with obesity by the punitive subconscious.
Now here in this section we will demonstrate how a sense of Good Humor, as in clever punning, may help us initiate a manifestation scenario of positive realities. You already are familiar, I am guessing, with the modern aphorisms regarding the past: “Don’t dredge up the past. What’s done is done. Look forward.” Generally, the past, particularly the past of negative events, traumatic events shall we say, is indeed best forgotten. “Just don’t dwell on it, ” the saying goes, “and it will lose its power over you.”
There is some truth to these statements, from my perspective. You do indeed create through a focusing of your energies on the subject matter. And so I do not advise the student who has had a traumatic childhood, for example, to continuously TRY to remember the traumatic events. Without proper preparation, they may make matters worse for themselves. Yet I DO believe that a return to the scenes of the trauma in the imagination, from an Objective Observer’s perspective, may be quite healing. Again, this is not done willy-nilly, without regard for the safety of the human. Great preparation is made before the return to master this Observer’s Perspective.
Once this is done, the student may safely visit these unfortunate memories, and observe the going-on objectively, without Embodying these negative memories, in other words. Here is where we use humor to neutralize the negative Feeling-Tone that marks and identifies the traumatic events. Change the past and the present will take care of itself. It has a sense of the absurd to it yet it is literally true. Over time the Objective Observer creates safety in this retrieval process. The negative emotion loses its sting, its power to wound.
Now having been neutralized, the event may safely be studied, assessed, and TRANSFORMED. The student is quite literally changing their past. When they return to surface awareness from the Trance State they may well experience the cathartic healing of consciousness. In this sense the student recovers, as in going back to retrieve the lost aspects of Soul, rather than recover in the sense of again covering up the negative past. Please note the activity of the double meaning within consciousness.
ESSENTIAL METAPHOR – You are on a path to your past, to your birth. As you go back in time on this path you see on the side of the road, events, places where you split off parts of yourself and left them. The idea is to collect these aspects or parts of self and integrate them into your personality through Intent. You go all the way back to your birth. When you have done this adequately, you can go back beyond and before your birth to the time in between lives, in the Home Dimension and into other lives.
Now if you have issues of abuse from childhood, these issues may be healed from the present. As you walk this path you see different events being recreated on the side of the road. You see where you have left parts of yourself at different stages of development in your life. The idea is to collect these Feeling-Tones and bring them back to the present. This is healing the Soul. It allows you to integrate all of this material and navigate the developmental phase that was interrupted by the trauma.
Now, many of my Blog Readers, because they are human, because they are learning Lessons, they experience emotional injuries. These learning experiences occur in the younger years, primarily, but obviously one may experience the negative emotions throughout life. The habitual re-creation of negative emotion within consciousness creates these emotional injuries we speak of in the new Blog Series. These injuries may be seen within the Emotional Body of the individual, in the dream state, or in other altered states of awareness, such as in Trance, during prayer, during the Guided Visualization, and so on. It is therefore, to the altered states that we go, as explorers, as Scientists of Consciousness, to discern the specifics of your own emotional injuries.
These events from the past protect themselves. They hide from your view, in a sense, for the content is often so negative, as in shameful, you see, that the ego/intellect cannot handle it. This material is continually forced back into the subconscious, or the underworld, if you prefer, by your conscious mind. Over the years there may be brief attempts by the Soul Self to reveal to the conscious mind these emotional injuries, yet they are most often denied, “repressed,” as we say. This continual denial of these secret volatile elements of consciousness serves to give this information more explosive power. This dark side of the human consciousness is thus relegated to the Unknown Reality, where it festers over time.
Now the brief interludes of perception in which this material is accessed by the conscious mind may be appropriately called “flashbacks,” using the term from our english vernacular. In a flash, in an instant, the images, thought, emotion and other data is served to the present conscious mind for appreciation, for healing, you might say. These breakthroughs into consciousness you might call “the curse of memory,” for they do arrive unbidden by the human experiencing them. So in an attempt to re-define these experiences and thus heal them, we may begin to call the Healing Signals of memory. They are indeed signals from the interior of consciousness as to what MUST be addressed. Let us have an example here to illustrate what we mean.
The depressed person ritually creates negative value, the fuel for negative, unconsciously-produced realities. In so doing, they incur a muted sense of satisfaction. They have Issues, you see. They are feeling as though they are fulfilling their roles as a depressed person by creating the depressed state. But imagine that they are now receiving guidance from an awakening human. They are changing their thoughts, emotions, imagery, and finding that this accent on the positive has results in the physical world. They are producing positive value and it is becoming habitual. Soon they are free from depression. Indeed, soon they are ecstatically co-creating their Personal Reality through their Higher Centers of Awareness.
As you address what you feel are probable Issues that you would like to resolve with regards to your health, please think in terms of Signals from the Emotional Body rather than the very loaded term symptoms. Conduct the Reading the Emotional Body Exercise from earlier in the Blog Series. Ask your Inner Self what might receive are often literal descriptions of the Issue or perhaps symbolic representations. These readings contain the necessary information for healing and transforming the Issue. Use your own judgement and Inner Senses assessments as you diagnose and treat your malady. Additionally, we have given you hundreds of pages of material on healing in our new Blog Series. I refer you there for more specific information.
For purposes of this discussion, a Feeling-Tone of Love and a desire for the highest good for all concerned. This construct has power for it is being continuously endorsed with positive energy by the Practitioner.
Now in their most simplified form, the Regimens entail Embodying the Precepts after you have personalized them, and, if you are the spiritual sort, after you have invoked your Higher Centers Awareness. You might describe the Regimens as a type of “test drive.” You are taking your new reality out for a ride to see if you enjoy the effects. If you like what you see, what you are making, continue the Embodiment. Soon it will become a positive habit, replacing the mundane or negative realities you were working on.
This accent on the positive has results in the physical world…
RITUALS OF MANIFESTATION
The Regimens are in fact Rituals, as we define that term in my new Blog Series. They are extended Rituals that the student conducts throughout their waking reality. Now you already know that in this practice we think of the average human in the Common Trance as also conducting a Ritual. The un-awakened human is using their Reality Creation energies in the same ways each moment of each day, day-after-day, to create their mundane reality. This is unconscious creation.
So let us again speak in terms of conscious and unconscious Reality Creation. The un-awakened human Ritually creates subconsciously their mundane realities, just as the awakening human Ritually creates consciously and with Intent their Positive Realities.
Again, this perspective we epouse is not the experiencing of the free flowing moment, the moment of no-attachment. Rather it is a FULL moment of understanding, Courage and transformation. An example: In this full moment I am describing, as you empower it with your Intent, you are engaged in quite the opposite behaviors as are most of your colleagues in physical reality. You are not stumbling forward in the Common Trance, the state of consciousness that supports consumerism and blind obedience to authority. You ARE, in fact, claiming, or perhaps re-claiming the sacred perspective honors the integrity and authority of the individual. Within this state of consciousness you are inner-directed and naturally abide by the suggestions of your greater creative personality. Do you understand this important difference?
Now it is true that I am giving you something more to do than simply fantasize about what breakfast cereal you might buy. Indeed, these practices supplant and spontaneously replace en masses the negative ruminations, self-limiting images and emotional content that tie you to the creation of mundane and negative realities. Choose the appropriate Dynamic according to circumstances.
These Resonance Dynamics yield greater positive effects when the Practitioner personalizes them with their own criteria, just as with the other Essential Metaphors. The process of adapting these potential states of consciousness to your own Journey of Awakening is exactly the same. For example: Suppose you are experimenting with the concept of Learning and Finishing-Up, the first Resonance Dynamic we cover, and perhaps the most important one generally for the student. You are “trying on” this Essential Metaphor to see if you can make some improvements in your life. In other words, whenever you have a full moment of clarity in your waking existence and you remember that you are on a Journey of Awakening, you Embody this Dynamic. So in this momentary awakening you might consider honestly the Lessons of your existence as you understand them.
Remember, your Lessons are easily available to you through asking your friends and family, “What is your opinion of me? What do you think I am here to learn?” Their honest assessments of you are the beginning of your awakening to the True Self. If you have done self-explorations and you know a bit about your Lessons from that investigation, go with that material. The point is, in this full moment of understanding in your waking world, you are asking yourself this question: “What can I do now in this moment to become more aware of my Lessons, and to, in some way, begin or continue to deal with them for the highest good of all?”
The second component, here, that of Finishing-Up, is a little more complex to negotiate. It entails having an awareness and appreciation for your eventual Transition, your own physical death. Having an ongoing appreciation for your Transition into the non-physical world has great value for you. This state of consciousness holds a quickening of perception, so that you are continually reminding yourself of what is important in your life, and what you must do during your time on the planet. This is not morbid thinking or gallows humor. Paradoxically there is often discovered through this perspective true ecstasy and enjoyment of life. Again, this is not negative thinking but a positive awareness for the truth of your existence.
