Body, Emotions, Mind … and Beyond

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Considerations 26 …

The Great Commander

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There is a new index in the post immediately above … for those that have come in late to this series.

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If ever there is an element that is more volatile, more commanding than thought … it is … emotion. This was lightly brought up in Con 19 … Post 64 … That’s the way I feel … but there is much more to it all than was suggested there.

There are very few thoughts that anyone can have that are not fueled with and by our emotions. The entire debate on the worth of the infamous "ego" could be looked upon as almost entirely emotionally based … since the exaggerated ego is cored by our desires and our desires are emotional. Even those thoughts that could be considered as "neutral" … neutrality is a feeling. Total detachment would be the absence of feeling at all … but that would be very difficult to maintain for any length of time concerning anything that pertains to our personal lives. As suggested earlier … the best way to handle this is to work towards not *defining* ourselves by our possessions, status, position, attainments, or even actions. Many times … when we are of service to LIFE … we give because we can … and not because we reap any special reward. To give because we expect reward can itself be a trap.

The feeling process or our emotions is the fuel … the motor of all our thoughts. Every thought that is embodied with feeling produces actual changes within ourselves … regardless of whether it be physical, emotional, or mental.

Most of the deep desires we wish for within ourselves lie in the control and regulation of our emotions. People wish for peace … for contentment … for love … for capability … for strength and courage … etc … but they do *not* wish for peaceful thoughts … elated thoughts … rapturous thoughts … loving thoughts … etc. We wish for the *feeling* of these states.

One of the best ways to gain a working discipline over the emotions is to choose our thoughts carefully. Finding scripture, passages, poetry, songs, words or phrases and keeping ones focus there to the best of ones ability … is a good way to hold to regulating the emotional nature of Self. The best defense is a good offense. Keeping your mind on inspirational and uplifting avenues will go a long ways in maintaining composure.

Obviously … LIFE will throw all kinds of situations at you to destroy the balance. How else are you going to learn how to recover once sucked into a cauldron of emotion? If it's something that carries responsibility within your personal life … it must be dealt with and then released. It is not that one faltered … it is how triumphantly one recovers.

If you cave into the issue and both your thoughts and emotions gain a foothold … it can last for a very long time and it is incredibly difficult to climb out of. Music can help … watching a favored movie can lead to the beginnings of balance … visiting friends, traveling to a sacred spot, poetry, bathing, physical activity … many things can help to lead one back to balance depending on the individual.

It's a great idea to have a working list of activities or interactions that bring comfort or satisfaction and have that list available when situations hit. To try and select a recovering activity right in the middle of an event is a tough row to hoe.

I hope to put in another post or two on the emotions. You might find them interesting.

More later.

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[zorkchop]

Considerations Twenty-Seven …

Continuing with Emotions …

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Have you noticed … that habits and beliefs formed during or spawned by the emotions of resentment, anger, bitterness, hatred, etc … form these patterns within ourselves SO much faster than feelings of love, acceptance, contentment, forgiveness, etc?

Why is that?

Because the emotions of bitterness, etc. are so much more volatile and charge the issue with a stronger imprint on that issue. Negative emotions are much stronger and feed that dynamism into the experience. The negative emotions will hang on longer and certainly can cloud ones entire perspective on life. When you tag such feelings onto thoughts … they are the ones that will take hold within Self much more quickly and firmly.They also have greater impact on our subconscious so they will often prevail into subsequent lifetimes.

Charging a thought with negative emotions is like stepping on the accelerator in your car. It just gives the action more “gas” … and sometimes … a LOT more.

When we wonder why we acted so strongly to this situation or that experience when in our present lifetime there really isn't a past experience that would lead us to react as we did … the chances are *very* good that this is a reaction to a past lifetime experience.

A lot of the so-called "phobias" come from this.

Person A tells you that s/he is afraid of heights or of the dark. You ask what happened during their childhood or earlier years that would have formed that reaction. They just shake their head and cannot give you any real explanation. They now have an explanation but there is no way to prove it to them.

I will tell you this … you can give the genetics boys and girls all the time they want … they will never find a gene that directs an individual to react in specific ways within various situations. They are carried over from previous lives … and it is difficult indeed to even guess as to what you went through to form such a reaction … but if it carried enough of an impact to bring it forward into the present lifetime … I doubt you would want to know the details and re-live it.

Love, beauty, peace, bliss, etc … you can carry them around within yourself for as long as you can maintain them … but the negative emotions feed on themselves … they build on themselves. Can you imagine being able to walk around in actual "bliss" for days or weeks or months … with the same strength that people daily carry anger and hatred? If you were that blissful … you couldn't maintain a daily existence … although I would bet many of you would love to try.

Once again … we return to the middle path. Contentment … lies in between both extremes … and it is certainly possible to walk in contentment.

Without a doubt … trifles, worries, anxieties, complications … you can never get totally away from them while here in the lower psychic worlds. Here's a thought … worry is negative prayer. Consider what emphasis *that* puts into so many peoples lives.

Does that mean you cannot be even concerned? No … not at all. If it’s something to be dealt with … go for it. Then let it go. It’s part of standing in the center or the storm while all else swirls around you.

Most people want that emotional high. Our emotions are that powerful … and we've been trained to want emotional experiences in our lives to keep our spirits up and happy … so to speak.

Emotions are NOT to be taken lightly. We can shrug them off … but they still steadily rule our lives. To discipline the emotions is often more difficult than to discipline our thoughts … and many people do not separate the two. Thoughts have built-in emotions … and vice versa. In the larger picture … this is not the case … but this very precept can rule us for lifetimes.

No one is asking you to become an unfeeling zombie. You *will* emotionally react to situations around you. Certainly acknowledge the situation … deal with it as best you can … and once you have done all you can … let it go. Do not carry it around with you. That … is all LIFE asked of you.

Find favored movies or pictures or poems or music or people or affirmative phrases that make you feel good … that uplift. Find them *before* you need to rely on them. Once the troubling situation has been resolved … then is when you need to begin to nudge yourself away from the negative pressures and lead yourself up and out of it. Yes … it takes effort. It's called … discipline. If the mind and emotions pull you back to the old pattern 1000 times … you lead it away 1001.

Slowly … through necessary practice … you gain greater control over all situations without become totally unfeeling towards LIFE.

Find those symbols, images, passages, and music that uplifts. They will pay great dividends when you need them. People that *do* this will discover the worth of such practice. People that do not do this … will never know … or at least not in this lifetime.

More later.

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[zorkchop]

Considerations Twenty-Eight …

LOA 1 …

Certainly … much of what I have been discussing and describing as of late is a version of the Law of Attraction. Technically … this is less of a law and more of a precept or axiom of Life in the psychic worlds. It is one of those principles by which we all live within … yet do not know about … until we reach a rather advanced stage in our unfoldment.

The Law of Attraction can be given many terms … Law of Attraction … Law of Affinity … a partial Law of Consciousness … a partial Law of Attention … but certainly … the Law of Assumption. Assuming and living your goal or ideal is certainly what makes this Law what it is.

For more lifetimes that I care to count … all live within this Law and wrestle with the effects of our inner assumptions. We just shot them out into Life without knowing what the effects would be … and when they unfolded in a different way than what we either expected or wanted … we blamed anything or anyone else.

The most compelling, regulating, externalizing, dominating, or forming power we each and all have … is our inner ability to focus, presume, expect, and conclude what we each are as ourselves and what goes on around us in our lives. As stated elsewhere in these posts … we see things not as they are but as WE are. Our perceptions … and what strength and expecting belief we give them … is what designs our lives.

Our thoughts … coupled with assumptive emotions … all our thoughts are eventually externalized into our lives … in one way or another. These "assumptive emotions" can be either positive or negative. Angry thoughts can certainly be much more volatile and life designing than thoughts of peace or love. Thoughts of love or desire gain in strength as we continuously dismiss and modify negative emotions and thoughts. We can practice and live serene and loving thoughts for weeks … months … years … and if just that right situation or experience comes along to throw us into the mode of anger … and if we let this prevail … we can lose it all.

Once we are advanced enough to know just what set of perceptions brings what into our lives … we begin the practice of discipline that will pay big dividends. This is when we truly begin to design our lives … and our individual being.

One of the fascinating aspects about the entire Law of Assumption are the "phases" or "levels" it follows. When one first discovers that anything like this actually exists … we tend to try our hand at this by bringing material possessions into our lifestyle … whatever material possessions we consider are important. We want … things. Goodies. It's a natural desire and focal area to start.

One thing to remember about any level of using the Law of Assumption … or the Wish Fulfilled … is that you *will* pay for anything and everything you bring into your life. You will pay … one way or another … and most of the time … payment to God is not done via coin. For every cause … there *is* an effect. In these lower worlds … it cannot be sidestepped.

And these "effects" can be most surprising and adventurous indeed … not quite what we expected. Through trial-and-error … we learn.

A very simple yardstick to use on this and other generic suppositions about consciousness is … the most fundamental perceptions focus on material things … a slightly more advanced level is to focus on people … and a higher level of focus would be on ideas.

To begin to use all of this by focusing our desires and assumptions towards other people can carry extreme karmic implications. Again … we learn by trial-and-error.

To begin to juggle ideas … concepts of Self … truth … strength … courage … attributes along these lines … is much of where all of this leads. And since these concepts of Self and such is where we carry the most baggage from our past lives … this is where the use of this entire approach is severely tested.

Certainly … the basis for the Law of Assumption is like attracts like. Sincerity and devotion to the ideal or goal can bring them to you more readily. Focusing on material or physical items are a bit more difficult because the physical world moves so slowly. Many, many times it simply takes a good period of time to manifest much of anything … but it certainly can work if that is where you dedication is focused.

There are some issues with deliberately using the Law of Assumption and I'll get into them a bit in the next few posts … including some aspects of the precept that many might tend to overlook.

More later.

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[zorkchop]

Considerations 29 …

Law of Assumption 2

Many of you reading this post may not believe that the Law of Assumption has anything to do with your depth of unfoldment or of understanding greater Life. I assure you … it does. It is foundational.

Whether one realizes it or not … this is avenue of moving beyond where you "are" at the moment and stepping forward on the Path. This is when you begin moving from having … to being. Anyone may use another name for this approach … but beginning to assess and replace … or upgrade ones Self … is when it all really starts being done by your own design rather than an unknowing, unintended approach.

You may believe that the Law of Assumption is just a faddish trend and designed to make a buck from the unsuspecting individual … but I assure you … in the later stages of using the Law of Assumption … this is not true. The Law of Assumption is a beginning cornerstone. When the technique is developed and applied to what YoU choose to believe and how to design your life … this technique is as old as they come.

Though the technique is age-old … it is often given new names to make it seem “new” … so that it can be sold to the public for profit. That is often geared toward material possessions and the gathering of people around you … your status in the public eye.

The technique remains mostly the same … it all depends on how you apply it. The approach prevails … because it works. One just has to work with it enough for it to become a lifestyle.

If you overlook and dismiss this avenue … you may overlook something that will bring great benefit into your life if you do not learn its parameters and ways as applied specifically and individually to you.

It is quite natural to expect that the early uses of the Law of Assumption will deal with material goodies. The Law of Assumption is the ultimate “gimme” approach. Please understand that the “early uses” would also apply to when you used it in past lives. We have been living by this precept for a long time … ultimately we understand how and why it works … and we begin to employ it to our own ends. Again … this is natural and to be expected.

The Ultimate Determination of how this works in ones life is … Spirit … again … by whatever name you wish to use here. The goal of all LIFE is to grow … to expand. All levels of LIFE are growing at their own pace … from dark to light … from ignorance to knowledge … from inability to capability … from not having to having … from narrowness of focus to greater vision … etc.

Therefore … if Spirit is leading each and every individual slowly along a path to a more broad understanding to Truth … Spirit then is going to decide if what you “want” is what you *need.”

It is only natural to accept that if and when someone tries the Law of Assumption in their life … and the goal or ideal is not met within the time frame that one expects … it is natural to proclaim that the Law of Assumption doesn’t work.

As stated in the last post … “goodies” is not exactly high on Spirits list of thing to provide. Yes … we will most likely be drawn to bring an acceptable collection of “goodies” into our lives. But ultimately … Spirit will want to use the Law of Assumption … amongst other precepts … as a teaching experience to develop into the intangibles … such as strength, courage, patience, persistence, determination, focus, determination … and so on.

“Hey … I tried it … and it didn’t work. I’m still waiting. What a con ! “

A bigger house, a faster car, more money in the bank, a better job, etc. … may not be that high on the priority list in teaching what *you* need to learn.

Certainly … you can always try.

The Law of Assumption is not necessarily a practice in being-ness in the beginning. It is more of a practice of gathering. As we work through the very elementary yardstick of things vs. people vs. ideas … we do not approach the teachings of “being-ness” until we get to ideas … and that can take many, many lifetimes to approach that border. Just a focused and concentrated attention often still prevails at this level but you begin to move from gathering things and people around you … to being what will enhance a more broad scope of Life.

The Law of Assumption deeply suggests that you become your ideal … you live your goal now. You are not going to simply “attract” it … you are going to *assume* it. There is a vital and huge distinction. You need to feel your ideal … assume your goal and live from it … and not just focus on it for 20 minutes or so and then live otherwise. It still might work … but will be incredibly iffy.

You cannot *become* a house or car ( things ) or a relationship ( people ) but you *can* become your ideal ( ideas ) and live your goal when it comes to strength, courage, persistence, patience, etc.

The attainment of things and people may work upon occasion … just enough to keep the individual intrigued. Eventually … one moves into ideas … and a greater understanding of Life.

More later

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[Miss Hepburn]

I read no further than the first sentence ...my life is based on assuming.
I ask or command or decree something: I am going to the store to buy the perfect white linen shirt or the
perfect, best elec knife sharpener --AT the Thrift store.
Of course I'm going to find them ...it's a natural assumption for me- expectation.
Like you plant corn you assume /expect you will get corn....it's how this world works.
Ask and receive.

[zorkchop]

Miss Hepburn …

Just as a very gentle suggestion … you might want to at least scan through the rest of the post. The Law of Assumption goes WaY beyond wanting material objects on any level. Obviously … you’ve got this level working for you … and you are to be commended for that.

One of the most common beliefs that essentially holds us back is … “Oh … I already know that.”

Every time I find myself considering that within my own patterns … I try to do at least a double … if not triple check.

Assumption turns out to be far more intricate and used for greater advancement than expectation. It is a fine line.

But again … well done on having this working in your life to the extent and level that you do.

Zork

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[zorkchop]

Considerations Thirty …

Law of Assumption 3

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There is a reason that I brought up Law of Assumption now. It is this …

We are being absolutely battered with external deception and conditioning in this day and age that it is absolutely overpowering … and it will only get worse. The external stimuli being launched against everyone right now is unprecedented, extraordinary, and unparalleled. We are all being groomed at many levels … sometimes subtle … sometimes blatant … and it is going to take focus and effort to stand in the center of this storm.

I do not wish to make this a political or religious or materialistic or dogmatic stance. Generically speaking … this grooming IS what is happening … by design … and this has never happened before in the known history of mankind. Certainly this has happened regionally … most kingdoms and regimes and such have launched such shifts … but this is global … world-wide … and the only way to stay out of it is to know what it is … and then hold to at least a neutral position.

In today’s world … it is almost demanded of us to put our values outside of us … houses, cars, clothes, mates, relationships, good job, lots of appliances, good social networking, etc. This puts everything of value outside of ourselves … and serves only to control, regulate, and extract our monies, our time, our efforts, our well-being.

An even greater emphasis today is being placed on how sick we must be. Every commercial and advertisement sequence has a new drug that they are offering as they try to convince you that you are more sickly than you know. In many cases … these will be beneficial to those that are presently and actually physically ill. In many cases … they’re trying to convince you that you *are* sick and you just don’t know that yet.

All of these are made to enslave, control, and subjugate us to their proclamations and desires. The tale is as old as mankind itself.

The more chaotic the outer world is … the more it is designed to draw your attention outward. If you do not wish to become enmeshed in all of this … you need to have an inner set of real values to hold to … and continue to hold to them.

Living continuously within the Law of Assumption is a known and effective way to do this - but it takes daily remembrance to do this. What and how we react to in our outer life shows what our inner life accepts to be of value. Lots of our beliefs do not really "protect" us … or portray what we wish we believed … and we wonder why we handed ourselves such limitations. Whenever we set such beliefs in effect … at that time … it seemed plausible. It seemed to be of benefit. Now … we do not find them so liberating.

There is no magic wand. It takes time and effort to dismantle and lead anew. Viewing forward into the new ideal is exactly what one needs to focus on.

Most people want no part of this. They are interested in living as best they can under current conditions … and that is all they are interested in. If that is the level that fulfills you … that is exactly where you need to be. There is neither criticism nor judgment here. All must go through the entry levels of learning the laws of LIFE before they can advance into the deeper workings. There is no other way.

My stance and use of the Law of Assumption focuses beyond material and communal importance … but that is just me. I certainly must live within acceptable parameters of these. I am not a hermit … but I have long accepted that the inner values are what we carry forward from lifetime to lifetime … and to allow the externals to warp and tear them down … is not something I wish to allow. I will hold my ground … quietly … yet firmly.

The quest of Soul is to gain the lofty pinnacles of consciousness through experience and discernment. It is not what happens to us … but how we interpret the encounter and what we learn from it. Each persons life is enmeshed in its own circle of experience … with its peaks and valleys … many rather mild … others quite volatile. This circle will continue on and on within the lifetime of each individual until said living person rises high enough to gain oversight and then take steps to revise and realign. Using the Law of Assumption is a decided beginning to that. It is real re-design work.

We are taught to put all value into material possessions, social standing, and interaction … yet it is the inner values and ideals that we carry within … that colors our life and feeds all of our individual perceptions. Most will simply endure life and wait it out … thinking it will change. Only the specifics within each lesson will change. There are endless ways to test for strength, courage, discernment, forgiveness, tolerance, determination, devotion, discipline, etc. These … are what we need to develop and refine.

More later.

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[zorkchop]

For those of you who have entered this set of posts from one of the later entries … here is a handy index of posts and the forum board post number of its location. I have had a request or two to do this … so … here it is. I will try to keep it updated every 5-10 posts or so and will re-enter it again or edit the old one.

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Con 1 … Post 1 … general what-it’s-all-about blab
Con 2 … 2 … a bit of mind / energy discussion
CL 1 … Post 7 … Clarifications … why I’m making these posts
Con 3 … 10 … Reincarnation and the Path
Con 4 … Post 12 … Reincarnation continued
Con 5 … 15 … Reincarnation continued again
Con 6 … Post 19 … Know Thyself
Con 7 … 21 … We did not forget
Con 8 … Post 22 … Duality
Con 9 … 30 … God
Con 10 … Post 31 … Personal Confessions 1A
CL 4 … 33 … Clarification … find the original concept
Con 11 … Post 39 … Personal Confessions continued
Con 12 - 44 … Checkpoints, Safeguards, and Spiritual Law
Con 13 … Post 48 … I’m Offended
Con 14 … 52 … Mind cannot be forced
Con 15 … Post 54 … Stopping the Mind
Con 16 … 58 … Divided Thoughts and Narrowness of Focus
Con 17 … Post 60 … Thoughts are Things
Con 18 … 61 … Take Specific Time
Con 19 … Post 64 … That’s the way I feel
Con 20 … 68 … Stop the Mind / Kill the Ego
Con 20B … 70 … Blame the Ego
Con 21 … 72 … Let’s Analyze This
Con 22 … 74 … I’m Saying WHAT to myself ?
Con 23 … 75 … Be Very Careful
Con 24 … 7 … Turn Your Perceptions Outward
Con 25 … 80 … Who Controls Who?
Con 26 … 82 … The Great Commander
Con 27 … 83 … Continuing on Emotions
Con 28 … 84 … LOA 1
Con 29 … 85 … LOA 2
Con 30 … 88 … LOA 3

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[zorkchop]

Considerations Thirty-One …

Soul One …

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An index of the first 30 posts are directly above. I will not post this again but I will include the forum post number in subsequent lists. Such a list just gets too cumbersome. It will always be available here.

I will be building on what has been discussed so far in the coming posts. Those new to this series might find previous offerings to be of interest.

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For the next series of posts I want to address Soul Itself … what It is … what It has to deal with … I may touch lightly on Its purpose … and so on. Let's see where this goes.

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As stated before … Soul is at an extreme disadvantage during It's wanderings throughout the lower psychic worlds of duality … the positive and negative of life in these worlds … and certainly It is under a built-in hardship here in the physical world … the lowest, most slow-moving, most solid of the psychic worlds. Here … Soul must wear outer protective gear … much as we would have to do the same when walking the planets or under the ocean. Pure Soul is of too high or five a vibration to exist here without protection … so to speak. The outer physical body is our suit-of-armor. By design … we do not know that as of yet.

The physical body has its five senses and Soul filters all incoming information through these perceptions … furthered filtered by the emotions and the mind. Each incarnation almost starts this process anew. Whatever habits, patterns, and karmic implications we bring with us into each incarnation colors our attitude from the moment of birth. We are often born into new cultures … new societies … new countries … new towns and cities … and certainly new times … so our old patterns and latent expectations really do not apply. It takes many, many lifetimes … hundreds of thousands is a very conservative estimate … to have any real say in where we are born … into what family we are born … and into what conditions we are born. Most of this is decided for us … by rather lofty Lords or Overseers if you will … and they have been given various names throughout the history of mankind.

This group keeps intricate and detailed records of where each Soul needs to undergo to balance … to pay off … or to learn karmic implications or lessons. This design is not haphazard. The learning of all of this is up to each individual. It is a ruthless design … unforgiving … for its mapping is for our own learning processes. The entire architecture and purpose of cause and effect … the backbone of karma … gives us opportunities to face, deal with, and lay to rest … or … accumulate anew … all that is necessary for each of us to learn at a level that we do not even know exists in the formative lifetimes.

Yes … the lifetimes are designed … but each still holds to a level of free will … allowing each to follow through and balance various situations … or we can sidestep them by simply becoming perceptually blind to them and maintaining that stance … or we can make them worse … in just about any combination you can conceive of.

There is a level of "destiny" or "fate" … but we can always duck the involved issues. They *will* catch up to us eventually. There is no way out. This whole scheme is not designed as our educational systems on this planet is … often getting a pass on a grade level "just because." We are not let off that easily.

The physical body would be absolutely lifeless without Soul to give it the necessary "power" or living energy. Without Soul … the body would be a lifeless lump. There are tales of ancient voodoo rites and rituals that can bring a dead body back to life and have it perform duties … the infamous zombie … and there are stories of this actually taking place. If we were born into the various cultures of Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, and other similar groups where such things are believed in, studied, and taught at a level where there are a few that have actually learned how to send electrical impulses through a Soul-less body and have it move … then yes … it *is* possible. One can only imagine the karmic implications that this carries. At such a basic level … such Soul-less bodies cannot do much … but just the fear of this is often enough to control the specific population.

The physical body is as heavy as the deep-sea diving suit we may wear to drop to the depths of the ocean. Here in the physical world … it is our home. Our eyes bring in most of the information we draw to our awareness … hearing being next … and all is filtered through our emotions and mental levels at the time.

Physical handicaps and flaws are all part of what has been dealt to us to pay off various karmic undertones. There are no coincidences. The fact that we may not like them … is futile. Soul is here to go through most every conceivable level of life … and with eternity and beyond to work with … we have plenty of time to live and learn.

On to the emotions and higher levels next.

More later.

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[zorkchop]

Considerations Thirty-Two …

Soul 2

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As directly tied to the physical body as it can be … the emotional body … the Astral body … the body of "feelings and emotion" … surrounds the physical and so is - right next to it" and has the greatest impact on our overall experience. Higher in vibration … the astral body is as invisible to human perception as an actual emotion is. Certainly we can perceive the effects of the various emotions on ourselves and others … but we cannot "see" the emotion itself. An emotion is a sensation … and is not a "thing."

The emotional / astral body is the body used by everyone when traveling the astral plane during our dream ventures at night … or whenever our physical consciousness lifts and changes to the astral and we shift awareness to one of the finer, inner bodies.

Not only is it easier to overwhelm, sway, and impress the individual by launching a bevy of "feelings" towards another … but these "feelings" need to be interpreted by the individual according to his or her own personal and previous experiences and so the emotional onslaught can be used to misdirect anyone at any time.

An easy tactic to understand is the "circling buzzard" maneuver … when the individual has that gnawing yet unfocused feeling that "something is wrong" … or that "I'm supposed to remember something" … or "something just isn't right." This vague and undefined emotion can linger for minutes, hours, or days … mysterious … perceptible … and then some daily event fires an old pattern that would normally just cause uneasiness … but the additional "circling buzzard" emotion is tagged onto the experience and it becomes monumental. The emotions drop as an eagle upon a hapless fish. An experience that you would normally give little attention to suddenly becomes overwhelming.

Score 1 for the astral body and those forces that are trying to mislead.

Without a doubt … the emotions make everything within the scope of each individual life … more real. Whenever we “want” something … those are the emotions adding in their scope of awareness. Since the astral body is “next” in sequence … they carry the strongest force. You can debate forever … just as the first in the sequence of the chicken verses the egg … what comes first … the emotion or the thought?

Regardless … you end up dealing with both.

Feelings one has lived forever as some prestigious person … depression … guilt … sin … fear … apprehension … elation … bliss … on and on and on. Emotions carry their impact. One can easily refuse to admit to error or defeat and resort to false beliefs to keep the current patterns going. Dark, negative impressions often come from the lower astral. These can easily overwhelm the individual … and often do … mainly because the emotions are tagged onto the appropriate ideas and beliefs … whether they are based in a larger reality or not.

There is a constant battle within each individual between the aggressive and submissive sides or emotions. Balance … comes at great struggle and cost. The search for the magic wand that will solve and resolve … is constant. The wavering between elation and depression … hope and despair … guilt and confidence … sin and freedom … and many more polarities … can tie one up for lifetimes. Self-condemnation is possibly the worst of all … and easily carried from lifetime to lifetime.

Its is the emotions that feeds the gasoline to these ideas.

This is often when we turn to outside help … clergy, healers, philosophies, books … some kind of teacher or master that will help break the ancient limitations we have carried forever and stunt growth.

One of the best ways to handle all of this is … to quit looking at the problem. Quit rehearsing the issue … the negative pattern. How many times do we ask ourselves … why do I always do this … why do I always end up this way … why do I keep catering to this habit … why do I always worry about this or that … on and on … endlessly.

Instead … focus on its opposite … and keep that end result in front of you. The discipline and the battle can be enormous. There is no magic wand here. Start slow … take baby steps … be kind to yourself … and peck away at the larger issues while balancing the lesser ones. Lead yourself to reliance, confidence, reverence … and certainly faith that the opposite quality DOES exist and that you personally *can* attain such a balance.

Lead yourself there … one step at a time.

The emotions are not as light-weight as many people believe. Soul doesn't even know there are "separate" factors such as emotions until quite late in Its journeys through the lower psychic worlds … or inner worlds. Even after making this discovery … the emotions can be an ominous adversary … or favorable partner.

More later.

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