Category: Spiritual Writings

“The first step in letting go is to let in.  To let in an experience is to allow it more fully into awareness, to become curious about what is going on.  Take the risk of letting in how it feels.  In the present moment, if there is pain, it’s real, it’s there. Resisting the pain doesn’t help; it only adds to the discomfort.

The second part is letting be.  By accepting it as it is and allowing the sensations to be just as they are, we may well find that we don’t suffer quite so much.  As you let the experience in and let it be, you might notice that it begins to change.  A sharp sensation might soften.  An ache might grow stronger, and then fade.  Numbness might give way to other sensations.  A tense muscle may begin to unwind of its own accord.

If I open up to it more fully – letting it in and then just letting it be – the natural wisdom of my body often shows me what needs to happen.  Several muscles that I did not realize were tight begin to relax, the area softens and my body readjusts itself.  Without my doing anything, the pain goes and comfort returns. The body does the releasing for me — once, that is, my conscious mind gets out of the way.

Werner Erhard taught a similar process in EST — Erhard Seminar Training — a pioneering program of the 1970’s human potential movement.  He would ask people to describe a pain in terms of its shape, size, color, and texture to rate each on a scale from 1 to 10.  He’d then ask them to go through the process again, rating how it now felt.  As they continued repeating the process, the intensity of the pain would tend to decrease, often disappearing completely.  By using these sensory metaphors, people were opening up more to the feeling of pain. They were in effect, letting it in and letting it be.

In other situations, where the pain has become deeper, a long-term cause, it may not go away but our relationship to it can change, making it easier to bear.  A meditation practice may allow a relaxing around the pain or opening up to it. The pain may not change but the relationship to it can ease.”

Letting Go of Nothing: Relax Your Mind and Discover the Wonder of Your True Nature (An Eckhart Tolle Edition), Peter Russell, pgs. 7 – 9.

“Be forever willing to reject guidance from outer sources and listen in total stillness to your own small voice.  It is your one true personal guide in every situation.  If you cannot quiet your ruffled feelings enough to be still and listen, while you practice you might pray for Me to help you.  Think of the beautiful peace that passes understanding and let your prayer be one of trying to comprehend this inner peace.

From the depths of this total stillness, the voice of intuition will spring up like a musical note and you will hear its message as unmistakably, as understandably, as the message from your conscience.  Not only will it lure you into more creative thinking, it will be your source of truth, and you will know what you believe, and what you want to do, without knowing how you know it.

You will soon understand that your still, small voice has two aspects to its nature. One is your conscience which redirects you when you wander.  Conscience does not condemn you for the mistakes you make, it merely helps you find the way again. The second is the peaceful answer that reliably intoxicates you with its guidance.

You need only to turn to the inner voice, to trust, obey, and love it, and your receptivity will increase until you never have to doubt that My wisdom, indeed, is guiding you infallibly.  Ask Me anything you want to know, then wait in quietness and carefully watch your thoughts. 

If you are not sure it is My voice you hear when you are in silence, prayer will liberate you from this confusion too.  You can pray to know My voice, and as you do your sensitivity will be heightened until you are quite familiar with this beautiful Light of Wisdom.”

The Door Of Everything – A Guide To Love, Faith, And Your Personal Ascension, Ruby Nelson, p. 70 – 71.

“Although they’re rooted in the past, our core beliefs feel current and true. The thoughts and feelings associated with them filter our experience of what is happening right now, and they prime us to respond in a certain way.

The Buddha taught that if your mind is captured by the fear and misunderstanding of limiting beliefs, ‘trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.’ Traditional translations of Buddhist texts speak of the mind as ‘impure,’ but this can be understood as ‘distorted,’ ‘colored,’ or ‘tainted.’ As the Buddha put it, ‘With our thoughts we make the world.’

If we pay close attention, we can see how our beliefs about ourselves and the world give rise to the very behaviors and events that confirm them. If you believe that nobody will like you, you’ll behave in ways that broadcast your insecurities. When people pull away, your sense of rejection will confirm your belief. If you believe that others are waiting to attack or criticize you, you’ll probably act defensive or aggressive. Then when people push back, your fears will be justified.

We loosen the grip of these beliefs by training ourselves to recognize the fear-thinking in our minds.  In the moments of mindfully noting fear thoughts (you can mentally whisper ‘fear-thinking’) there is a little space between us and our beliefs. This space gives us the opportunity to discover that the thoughts and underlying beliefs are ‘real but not true.’  They are real– they are appearing. They come with a very real and painful experience of fear or hurt or shame in our bodies.  But they are interpretations of reality, mental images, and soundbites we have produced that represent the world and entrap us in a confining trance. They are not truth, itself.

If, rather than subscribing to beliefs as truth we can connect with the actuality of our present moment experience, we directly weaken this trance. We take refuge in presence by moving our attention from thoughts to the felt sense of our body’s experience. As we rest our attention in our moment-to-moment experience, our aliveness, intelligence, and innate compassion naturally shine through.  Each time we move in this way from fear thoughts to our embodied experience, we are increasingly able to see past the confining stories we tell ourselves about our own unworthiness, badness, and unloveableness.

They are real but not true.  With practice, the veil of beliefs that has confined our lives dissolves and our trust in our true nature guides us in living and loving fully.”

True Refuge: Finding Peace And Freedom In Your Own Awakened Heart, Tara Brach, pgs. 11 – 14.

“Chains of associations are an unconscious series of associations that can lead a person to irrational and inaccurate conclusions, in a way where they may not even realize that they’re being irrational and inaccurate.

For example, let’s say that Tom has a friend, and normally Tom’s friend calls him every month. But the friend didn’t call Tom last month.

Then Tom’s chain of association might be: my friend hasn’t called last month. That’s because he doesn’t want to talk to me. He doesn’t want to talk to me because he doesn’t like me. In fact, he has never liked me. And he doesn’t like me because he thinks I’m an unlovable awful person. And in fact he’s right, I am an unlovable awful person.

So as you can see, chains of associations can be a series of wildly inaccurate, fear-based assumptions that can lead people to conclusions that may be completely irrational, unjustified, and fear-driven. Because perhaps the real reason why his friend hasn’t called is that the friend was just really busy, or something awful happened in the friend’s life and said friend is currently distracted.

You can imagine that the average person forms these chains of associations many times every single day and is frequently led astray by them.  It is important to notice how you feel.  What are you actually seeing and hearing with your ears and eyes? And what emotions and assumptions and thoughts are arising in response to that?  What are the actual observations or facts, and what are assumptions or projections?  Don’t just jump to conclusions — actually observe first.

The next time you see or hear something and you immediately feel some kind of fear or anxiety or anger or judgement, I invite you to take a moment to observe what is actually happening. Because it’s possible that some chain of association is tugging at you and is trying to drag you away to some unconscious, potentially unjustified, and perhaps fear-based conclusion.

So: just take a moment to observe.”

channelings@substack.com, “Tunia: Chains of Associations”

 

“You were born with the God-given right to reach out to Angels whenever you need them.  If you’ve struggled with your physical or emotional health, they’ve been your witness.  Angels want to help ease our minds, rebuild our spirits and souls, and heal our bodies.

They want to guide us in our most purposeful direction.  Since humankind began, Angels have existed to help us adapt and survive here on earth.

When our souls arrive here on earth, we can decide to play a certain role and not stray from that … or we can use our free will to write our own part.  Everything is not already written.  Everything hasn’t all happened already.

We all have the option to break out of the mold.  We have a say in our destiny.

The Angels are here to help guide us in our decision-making, to make the most of our free will.  They’re here to intercept trouble and present opportunity.  They’re here to help us see the light, guide us, and pull us out of the darkness.  However, you need to envision or interpret the Angels, whether as light beings or animals or another type of creature unique to your inner vision, they will take that form to help you.  Angels don’t exist to fulfill our every wish and desire.  They’re here to help us do God’s work, whether that’s healing ourselves from illness, reclaiming our souls, or helping others in need.

They’ve been doing it for millennia. 

Here’s the secret: you have to know the right angels to ask. (There is one each for Mercy, Faith, Trust, Healing, Restitution, Deliverance, Sun/Light/Water/Air, Purity, Fertility, Birth, Peace, Beauty, Purpose, Knowledge, Wisdom, Awareness, Dreams,  Relationships, and powerful Unknown Angels.) You have to know the right way to ask. (You have to ask for their help aloud.) You have to have faith, you have to be open, and you have to work with them by asking a certain Angel aloud for help, remembering that Angels have free will.

You can access the Angelic Realm in this way anywhere, and at any time, as long as you’re sufficiently focused on what you’re calling for and truly open to receiving help and have faith that it will work.  (And if you’re short on Faith, you may want to make the Angel of Fatih your first call.)”

Secrets Behind Chronic And Mystery Illness And How To Finally Heal – Medical Medium, Anthony William, pgs. 329 – 336.