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Considerations 117 …
Influences and Impressions …
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I am planning to add a “Clarifications” post later in the week. Please read.
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Starting with an example … let’s say you must write up a document or perform some tedious task that will require a good degree of focused attention. You settle in and begin the task … and someone comes in and turns on the television and the stereo. These are definite distractions. The kids come in and begin chattering and playing about. More diversions. It’s all but impossible to put your full attention on the required task now … with so many intrusions pulling at you from the outside.
And yet … most of us have this degree of distraction ongoing in our daily lives without our even knowing it. The objective / outer influences constantly pulling at us … often goes unnoticed. Any form of today’s media pulls at us for attention. For any peace … we try to retreat to some area of relative quiet.
When anyone finally figures out the extent to which the Lower Psychic Worlds are designed to pull our attention outward … there is a tendency to find quiet time alone to quiet Self and find some let-up… only to find the inner worlds are just as noisy. The physical body itches and twitches, the emotions churn inside along any uneasiness or anxiety … and the mind … well … the mind just chatters away. Suddenly the individual is confronted by just what little inner peace they have when their inner worlds are clamoring for attention.
Eventually we can get the physical body to settle down and the emotions might drift into a lull … and we begin to focus on a single symbol to quiet the mind down. This is not an easy task. Finally it dawns on us that the physical body, emotions, and the mind … are “outer” to Soul. Once again … it is the outer distractions that grab for our attention and focus. We begin to realize that there is an “other-ness” to the Lower Psychic Worlds bodies … and we begin to sort them all as we slowly discover just what part Soul plays in it all.
Though Soul Itself can certainly “think” … it is the habitual use of word strings, their meanings, favored symbols, learned and accepted judgments, comparisons, analyses, definitions, and determinations that the mind relies on that distinguishes mind from Soul … and once “above” or “beyond” the mind … Soul discovers an entirely new world … or worlds … Its first voyage into Its true Home since It was individually created … and the overview of just what LIFE and Existence is all about … how its designed … and the why of it all … becomes much more clear as we now can observe it truly from an overview. Soul begins to work directly with Divine Spirit … not through emotion or mental perceptions … but with Divine Spirit IT-self … which is the building blocks and living substance of Existence.
Now that we have mustered the courage to “step inside” … we find the true confrontations begin. We will begin to face the inner onslaught of what we have allowed, carried, and entertained for many, many lifetimes. The mind is a “creature” of habit and will not let them go. We quickly find that the breaking of addictions to substance abuse is child’s play compared to convincing mind to give up its habitual perceptions. Many have headed inside to see quietude … and they do not find it there as long as mind runs the show … as it has … for eons … in our personal lives.
We want things to “quiet down” … so that we may gain at least a few moments of respite … then we get bitter when it doesn’t easily happen … then we begin to pressure the mind to do what we want it to do … and that makes it worse. Mind cannot be forced … but it can be led. If you make a game out of it … treating it as a child throwing a tantrum … and uncover ways to train your own mind to settle down … one begins to gain those quiet moments.
An old method that works for many is this … close your eyes and picture yourself in a large, long straight hallway. As thoughts, emotions, and images tumble down the hallway towards you … firmly promise them that you will deal with them later … and inwardly and gently sweep the thoughts to the left and the emotions to the right … or vice versa. Some put doorways that the intrusive thoughts or emotions can be swept into. Others just “pin” them to the side on the hallway wall. Try to assure them that you will deal sincerely with them later. This is not a substitute for “stopping thought.”
Make it work for you. This tends to clear the hallway directly in front of you but they keep on tumbling towards you. Slowly step forward and repeat the process. Promise “them” anything to just wait their turn and you’ll give your full attention to them later. Sweep them aside. Reward them. Praise them. Admire them for stepping aside … anything that will quiet the childish blabbering of mind and emotions.
Eventually … a day or a week or a month of this … the hallway in front of you will slowly clear … and you can step forward. Don’t demand immediate success with this. This is a re-training session. If it is difficult for you … pretend. If you get resentful again … mind will just feed off the negative energy. This is what is meant by not being able to *force* the mind into anything. Mind cannot be pushed or shoved. We have taken in our perceptions over many lifetimes … now we try to shorten that a bit in getting the mind and emotions to be more cooperative. You cannot even beg it to do whatever … but you can … sincerely … promise to give the thoughts their due later on while *these* moments are yours and you just want them to quiet down a bit.
As you do this … consider …
What is doing the “seeing?” Mind … has no eyes. The emotions have no eyes. You’ve got your physical eyes closed. Mind can use memory … but that is a different vision than an actual eyesight … and just what IS doing the seeing?
Eventually the spiritual vision gives way to a full, inner sensing. Yes … there can be imagery … but there is always a myriad of forces and energies swirling around within the personal aura that is very vague in form … if any. These are not emotionally felt. These … are very subtly sensed … just as the inner imagery of these visual forces are subtly sensed. It’s a practiced thing … and you *will* get better at it.
Do NoT get side-tracked by some ominous lofty voice telling you “This is God … “ … or whatever … and to do as the voice demands. More often than not … those are psychic tricks … and will … and can … mislead you into countless blind alleys. This is one of the first tricks played on the unsuspecting. Be aware.
Give yourself some time to first become acquainted with … then reassign … and then choose … the influences within. It will help what happens … without.
More next Monday.
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