Category: Spiritual Writings

“David Viscott has reduced emotional complexity to a single cycle that gets repeated countless times in everyone’s life.  This cycle begins in the present, where only pain and pleasure are felt, and ends up with complex feelings centered exclusively in the past, such as guilt and depression. The cycle of emotions is as follows:

• Pain in the present is experienced as hurt.
• Pain in the past is remembered as anger.
• Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety.
• Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt.
• The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

What this cycle tells us is that stored hurt is responsible for a wide range of psychological distress.  Buried hurt disguises itself as anger, anxiety, guilt, and depression.  The only way to deal with these layers of pain is to find out what hurts as the pain occurs, deal with it, and move on.

Living in the present means being honest enough to avoid the easy emotion, which is anger, and expose the hurt, which is harder to confront.  When hurt is not resolved in the present, the vicious buildup of anger, anxiety, guilt, and depression can only grow worse.

The steps of how to feel in the present:

• Realize that hurt is the most basic negative feeling.  You cannot be in the present without the willingness to feel hurt.
• Be with your sensations.  Resist the impulse either to deny what you feel or to turn it into anger.
• Say what you feel to the person who caused the hurt.
• Resolve your emotion and move on.

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind – The Quantum Alternative To Growing Old, Deepak Chopra M.D., pgs. 186 – 187.

“So long as we resist a situation, it will stay with us. If we run away from it, it will run after us. Why? Because the ‘situation’ is a frequency in our aura, and our aura is our self-created atmosphere. We cannot run away from our aura, however, we can change it in an instant by changing our thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires, words, and actions.

The inharmonious situation outpictures some inharmony within ourselves. Therefore, the only way to heal an inharmonious situation is to go within and correct our thoughts, feelings, words, and beliefs around the situation.

Life is a mirror. The people in our life mirror ourselves. If we want the outer world to change, we have to turn within. The work is ever within ourselves. If we look at the bathroom mirror in the morning and we don’t like what we see, it will not occur to us to change the reflection by trying to change the mirror, will it?

The only way to change the reflection in the mirror is to change ourselves. The same holds true for our entire life. Life is a mirror.

Jesus advised us to ‘agree with thine adversary quickly.’ Agreeing with our adversary means to look at the situation as good in that it indicates that our inner life has gotten out of harmony

and that we need to turn within to correct the disharmony. The proper way to ‘outwardly’ respond to an undesirable situation is to remain undisturbed by it. When we emotionally respond to an unwanted situation, we feed it and keep it alive. When we remain undisturbed by it, it naturally fades away for lack of attention and energy.

Never fight an undesirable situation. Always remember: Man’s work is ever within himself.”

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“Most of us are operating on mistaken ideas about what gives us happiness — and these errors are sometimes costly.  Think about how you normally spend your days — shopping, TV watching, drinking alcohol, eating junk food, computer games — and then think about whether that’s making you happy. Now think about the cost to your health and long-term happiness.

Real happiness comes from what’s happening inwardly.

• Being delighted by movement, music, and connecting with others
• Caring for yourself or others
• Having fun, playing, smiling
• Being fully in the present moment
• Being grateful, being appreciative
• Loving
• Feeling connected to others, yourself, or the world around you
• Expressing your full self

Again, this isn’t a complete list. The idea is to show you the inward activities that can happen with any outward activity, that lead to greater happiness.

There are lots of other inward activities that don’t often lead to greater happiness: judgment, complaining, needing more and more, hating, seeing the faults, hiding yourself, or shutting yourself off from the world. Not that these are bad things — they’re human, and we all do them, and they’re a part of the beautiful experience of living. But you might notice that when you’re doing them, they don’t fulfill you as much as other inward activities.

From that, you might consciously practice the inward activities that lead to greater fulfillment, meaning love. How would you like to practice?”

https://zenhabits.net, Leo Babauta

Dear Ones,

Very few of you are taking full advantage of the amount of assistance that is available to you on a daily basis.

Do not be afraid to ask for our help! No request is too small or too silly. It is our greatest joy to serve and assist you, but as you are sovereign beings we do require your permission to help. You are part of a team – there is no need to carry the load alone. We are just waiting for the nod from you to launch ourselves into action on your behalf.

So simply ask! Ask to be shown the way, ask for unseen solutions to be shown, ask for greater ease and comfort, and be open to the magic, for that is how you move into receiving the love, support, and guidance that has always been there for you.

~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young, trinityesoterics.com