Use your tools

Wow! What interesting times we live in.  There is so much going on in the world these days.  Many times, this is a major topic of conversation.  How will it all affect us?  

Analysis of these situations can cause an interesting effect in the mind.  Very often we get focused on what is wrong, making us feel bad or worse sending us into fear.  This drives or attracts more thoughts, like a magnet.  The strength and quality of this magnet is based on how much emotional charge we have on what we are thinking about. To drive one’s mind to the edge, keep thinking about the problem.

 We can create our very own personally selected dark abyss.  Or we can create our very own happy and blissful state.  We always have a choice.  Choosing to focus on the solution, instead of the problem, is one of the tools we can use to change the direction the mind is going in.  We have tools to use, techniques that are learned.  Some of the best ones are very simple. Like appreciate what you do have.  Gratitude.  Center.  Meditate. Solution.  It is really a matter of which direction do you want to point the mind in.  Love or Fear.

Most people have forgotten the mind  is a tool or interface to be used by the heart or the true self.  When the interface is getting clogged or not running the way we want it to, clean it or reset, turn it around.  We all have tools that we have learned, we only need to decide to use them.  This will of course bring some resistance from the ego.  This can be dealt with gently but firmly, like a child who shouldn’t be playing with your computer.  Then the mind can be used to create those things we enjoy, like solutions!  Trust your true self.  Use the mind, don’t let the mind use you.  It is your choice.  Make it with your heart.

Choice of Perception

   Where we choose to be affects how we are viewing events that are taking place  externally or within us.  As each of us watch the same action unfold, we will all have a different viewpoint of what transcended.  So who is right?  Nobody.  Our ego may think otherwise.  This is our point of perception and we can be very accurate.

    We may be engaged in being in the role our ego wants us to be in.  For example, viewing events from the role of victim will colour those events to support that view point.  The same actions viewed from the role of rescuer are coloured to the same degree only differently.  We can choose many different perspectives and roles to view events from. 

    Viewed from only one angle,  our understanding is limited.  This causes us to see things with tunnel vision, having our opinion reinforced by that role that wants to be acknowledged.  The emotion coming from that role towards that perspective reinforces that opinion.  These roles, are not interested in seeing things from a divine perspective or big picture.  The information coming in is coloured, like a filter on a camera, the filter being the role we are engaged in.  Being centred is a way of reducing those filters to their minimal effect.  Viewed from the centre both perceptions can be understood or accepted as well as having a much clearer vision of the big picture.   From the centre, we have access to the divine perspective, and this is where true awareness comes from.  This awareness is often beyond words or reason. 

    From awareness we have an opportunity to choose in a way that is beneficial to all aspects of our self.  Many judgements come from viewing things from a limited perspective.  These judgements cause us to focus, becoming myopic, supporting the judgements and reinforcing them with emotional energy.  And that makes it more difficult to rest at ease in awareness, the centre.   Focus requires much more energy than awareness, and we eventually get tired of that perspective.  Choose awareness, to be centred and you will have much more energy and less drama.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful choices that a being can make.  This refers to our conscious decision to let go of the emotional energy around our stories.  In shamanism this is often referred to as shedding.  The serpent or deer represents this in nature by shedding their skin or hair and antlers.  This is so growth can continue in the way nature intended.  We all have stories that we hang on to.  There is an underlying parameter or limiting belief associated with a story that has emotional charge on it.  This belief creates  rules that run throughout our lives forming repeating patterns.   Also known as the karmic wheel, this creates suffering due to our actions based upon this rule.  The essence of the experience remains constant while the characters and locations may change.  By consciously letting go of the emotional energy around this story, we get an opportunity to decide whether we want to follow the rule we set up around this the next time the universe presents us with a similar situation.  The story will remain, but the influence from it is diminished.  In forgiving ourselves and others we create a possibility of being free from this pattern.  

We are beings that are interconnected in ways that our intellect can not really fathom.  Forgiveness helps everyone.  This affects our personal growth in a way that is expansive to our consciousness.  To enter into the oneness, the sacred heart or whatever you want to call it requires us to let go of our judgements.  Forgiving one's self and others goes a long ways to helping with our judgements, especially self judgement.  We get moments of interconnectedness that are so exquisite that we can recall them throughout our life. These may motivate us to search for that fulfilment and peace.  We are all part of something much bigger than we can understand,a oneness or God.  Our emotions radiate through this oneness.  By choosing to forgive, we have a beneficial effect on everything.   If you could remove poison from the water that everybody drinks from, would you try?  Forgiveness is like that, it helps us grow in a healthy way, in harmony.

Journey of Acceptance

Unconditional acceptance is a way to experience the all pervasive unconditional love.

The constant turning of the medicine wheel brings us closer and closer to experiencing the freedom and wisdom we truly are by nature. We have judgements that hold us back from our true nature, from accepting ourselves and others.  When acceptance is present in us, the unconditional love and compassion can flow through us uninhibited.

What does unconditional acceptance mean in this busy critical world?  Many people believe that this means becoming apathetic and dismissing every judgement they have about those things happening around them as unimportant.  This is a misunderstanding.  To accept one’s own actions and the actions of others means accepting the judgement that can go with it.  These judgements we have are spiritual signals to ourselves which get missed if we don’t accept the judgement.  

This does not mean the judgement is correct or even accurate.  The judgement is formed from our mind trying to make sense of the emotion that is moving through us. Our being is giving us a signal to bring awareness to an issue we are carrying.  The emotion is the signal that there is an issue, (be it karma, engram, or samskara)  stored in our chakras.  The mind begins connecting thoughts that rise from memory and association creating an opinion about what has happened.  None of the story that is being created is true.  The emotional signal is real, the thoughts may feel valid and some contain knowledge about what requires awareness.  But the story is just a story, not the truth.  If we can sit with the emotion while it is present we can gain the insight which brings awareness to our issue. If we are aware enough we don’t go into the judgement. If not then our issue is projected onto others.

The medicine wheel teaches us that if we are in ownership or acceptance of our stuff we have an opportunity to gain wisdom and transcend our issue.  If we don’t accept it as ours, we see other souls unconditionally showing us our stuff by reflecting what we have projected.  Projected because the spiritual light is flowing through your chakras and it shows up in our holographic universe.   Until we accept, we cannot integrate or transcend our issues. They keep moving around the wheel.

So when you see something happening that brings emotion to the surface for you, accept it. If there is a judgement on it, examine it and accept that the judgement is about  you.  A judgement that generates more emotion only keeps you in that place, or digs the hole a little deeper making it even more difficult to accept. The deeper the hole the more emotion and the more difficult it can be to sit with it.  So the phrase “though shall not judge”  is an indicator that if you do, you are taking the long and difficult path to  freedom from suffering.   

   

We are all one, parts of the same universe, children of god.  There is no separation.  When we accept what is happening, we can begin to assist everyone and everything because we are recognizing that we are one.  This is healing.  Removing ideas that we are separate is healing and many issues that have been with us for years, be they physical, emotional or mental can be transcended instantly.  When we understand the love that is existing between all of us, that we are love assisting each and everyone of us, we can live free from judgement and grow and live in our hearts.  

When we do that the world around us changes.  We learn to discern what is right for ourselves, by trusting and dropping the judgements on our actions.  And this may mean having to piss someone off so they have an opportunity to accept, integrate and perhaps transcend the issue that is causing them to suffer.  If you wish to move freely and walk with grace, be willing to live from the heart, be willing to piss people off by standing in what feels true for you in each moment.  Live from the heart no matter what.  That is how you can truly be in service and become aware of the unconditional love that is there for you to accept and live it when you choose.  No matter, either way. Some prefer the difficult or long path. Our souls know exactly what they are doing, and have no trouble to surrendering to the ego. They understand the system is perfect and eventually the choice comes around again. Like in the next moment.  All action is the same in the eyes of the absolute.

In Service

Bradley Krause