Alleviating Stress

Can stress possibly have any beneficial value to us?

Yes it can. It can be a teacher of the highest order, when you respond to it in an appropriate manner.

There are different types of stress. There is the stress that comes in the wake of a life threatening situation, there is the stress of accepting responsibility for the lives of others, there is self-induced stress caused by conflicting desires between people, and there is imaginary stress caused my uncontrolled mind imaginings.

How can stress be useful to us?

Simply put, all things are either leading you closer to the love and joy you are seeking, or,…they are leading you further away.

Stress is an emotional signal from your higher self that, you are moving away from yourhighest good. The remedy then, is to reaffirm your priorities and to head out once again in the direction of your joy.

Of course, this is the utopian version of what really happens. In actual fact, reality occurs more like this: Stress is the “pebble” in your shoe in that, when you first notice it, it annoys you but you tolerate it. Later, as it’s annoyance level increases because of the discomfort it is creating, it begins to draw more and more of your focus, until such time as you decide this stupid, and you stop and remove it from your shoe.

Prior to this point, the annoyance and discomfort were not of the level needed to generate any constructive action on your part. In simplistic terms, it was far simpler and easier to live with the problem, than to implement a creative solution.

This is what happens with regards to the stress that you experience in life. People dislike change, and conflict, and often feel bound to, or trapped in a particular situation, with no way to easily extricate themselves, without causing their whole life to be turned upside down.

Stress then, is more accurately described as the “tension” that exists between what you have, and what you want, in the same way that the Earths orbit is the example of the tension that exists because of the Earth’s centrifugal force of orbital rotation, countering the suns gravitational pull.

When certain forces obtain the upper hand, then change makes it possible for stress to become alleviated. Thus, when you reach a point where you can no longer tolerate a situation, then you move into action to change things. That time between the initial discomfort, and the eventual change is that “tension” that we call stress.

Yet wouldn’t it make far more sense to make your changes when you first start to feel discomfort? Why agonize over something for months years or decades? What a waste of energy.

Stress could be classified as, being all the factors that are not in alignment with the way that you believe the world, and people should behave. Potential stress then, is everything that lies outside of your belief system. I’m sure that you can see the potential for the amount of stress that can create.

In closing here are a few time-honored sayings, with regard to stress.

“Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

“Will this really matter in five or ten years?” and,…(a personal one of my own).

“Don’t take the responsibility of the world on your shoulders, without the control that goes with it.”

So in closing, let me say that most people have enough genuine concerns of their own, without having to import the problems of other people into their life.

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You Can Do No Wrong

What if you knew you could do no wrong in God’s eyes? Would that open up any doors for you, possibly alleviate some guilt?

“You can do no wrong.” Wouldn’t that statement send all religions into a tailspin?

Religions are all based on guiding you away from wrong doing, and leading you to that which is right. They would lose their power and purpose if that statement were true. The whole industry would collapse. “Is religion an industry?”

Yes, it’s the oldest industry, it’s not a charity, and not a, “not for profit industry.” When you start out with nothing, and you end up with vast wealth all around the world, you can hardly consider yourself a charity.

So, can we do no wrong? Well, right and wrong are just words, and not very specific words. Actions are the result of beliefs, cause by thoughts, which are vibrational by nature. Life is vibration. Life is you and I just being. At any given time we’re being some kind of vibrational frequency, either high, low, or in between. The whole of creation is frequency based, so how can a large portion of it be bad, wrong, or unacceptable? Is much of existence just a pool of quick sand, waiting for some poor unsuspecting person to step into it?

Should guilt be attached to the exploration of some natural phenomenon, which we ourselves didn’t create? The hot burner on a stove can be explored intellectually, or visually from a distance, or close up where we can feel the heat, or directly where we can feel the pain and burning sensation as a result of  touching it. Are any of those wrong?

The last one certainly results in a more complete understanding of what a burner is, and feels like! So was it wrong, or was it just a more complete exploration of a specific area of life.

Should you feel guilt? Is an intellectual understanding of reality a good substitute for the experience of it?

If you side with religion, the answer must be yes. If you were to take that conclusion to the ridiculous, you could have all of creation which has experienced “nothing,” as opposed to one which has experienced everything.

Which do you think is the more realistic viable option?

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To Know And Not Do

“To know and not do, is not to know.” That saying used to really annoy me every time I heard it.

It seemed to take away my freedom to choose between one thing and another, and to limit my choice to a predetermined path. Sure I want to make the right choice, but I don’t necessarily want it shoved down my throat, and that feels like the intent behind this saying.

Over the years I have come to a different conclusion about the intent that this message is trying to convey, and now I am in alignment with its message.

As far as I understand, life is a twofold reality consisting of spirit (consciousness) and physicality (consciousness). Both exist, however, neither can be a complete existence unto themselves. Physical reality is a component part of spirit, and not a reality unto itself.

As such, there are experiences we are able to have while physical, that can not be had while we inhabit a purely spiritual form. Thus, from this we can deduce that there are two potential states of being. There is the spiritual state (knowing) and the physical state(doing).

Having drawn this conclusion, we can now plug those two words back into the equation to see the result.

To know (to be in spirit) and not do (to not interact with the physical), is not to know (is to not have the complete knowledge and experience of creation).

Also, the major value in anything is in its application in your life. Anything that you carry around with you all your life and never use (such as wisdom) is just an energy drain on your system. A things value in a physical life, lies in it’s “use” value, not its potential use value.

Therefore, having the knowledge of how to live, is not the same as living that knowledge. If you are “not” going to live the knowledge that you know, then why are you wasting energy carrying it around?

This is where the rubber meets the road.

There is no value in knowing all about love, if you never “do” love. You might just as well be ignorant of the whole concept, because the end result will be the same!

Now you know why I disliked this saying so much. It is like being forced to stand in front of a mirror and look at your real self.

“To know and not do, is not to know.”

Does it mean something a little different to you now?

What Is Sin?

Sin is in error. God’s reality, is our own, but the total true nature of God can not be  held within us at this level of reality. There is a gap that exists between what we think God is, and God’s true nature, and this gap represents the extent of our error. This error is “sin,” born of the ignorance of universe reality.

As one ascends vibrationlly closer to an understanding of what God his, the error we call sin is left behind. We were all born on Earth in sin, because we were all born into the illusionary nature of the Earth plain, and experience errors in perception. We are not locked into sin but, can make progress here, as we choose to align our nature with that of our creator.

Of course even at our level, it is all God, so there is nothing wrong with any of it. It’s just a lower vibrational expression of reality, which we will sooner or later move out of, in favor of something appreciably higher, more loving, and less sinful.

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What Is Love?

All love is the highest feeling of well-being and contentment that each of us has ever experienced. So in that regard, it is slightly different for each of us. The reason we can all feel it, is because it is a vibration. And,… because we all feel “something,” and label it love, then love can not be a “specific” vibrational frequency at our level of existence.

The variable nature of the frequency of vibration we each experience, and call love, can span quite a range, when you consider there are close to seven billion people all having some kind of love experience. And so, people’s idea of what love is, are no different from their ideas about what truth, or freedom, or joy are.

All life is vibrational, and “is God,” in just a different form. God is love, and its nature his loving. Therefore, all reality is just a vibrational expression of love. We can now say that, because everything is love, the only variation from one aspect of reality to the next, is in its vibrational frequency.

What is love? Love is “all there is,” (God) continually expressing itself, as some form of vibrationall frequency. The only reason that one aspect of reality on earth feels more loving than another, is because of the vibrationall frequency it represents. The lowest of vibrationall frequencies causes us to feel the least amount of love, and those same frequencies cause the beliefs which spur people on to act in the least loving ways.

The opposite is true of the highest of vibrationall frequencies, which is why people gravitate to the highest, and are repelled by the lowest of vibrationall frequencies.

What is love?

Love is the emotional guidance system that allows each of us to interact with each other at the highest level of reality here on earth.

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Can We Or Should WE Trust Our Feelings

This will be a fun post, because this is a very important topic, maybe one of the most important topics in all of life.

Now some of you might feel that at times I talk down to you. Well, there is the sense of “feeling” coming into play, isn’t it? I don’t talk down to you. You are where you are, if the information I deliver bothers you, maybe it is because it is radically different from the way you view life. Numbers equal security don’t they? Often times it feels better to retreat back into the place where every one thinks as you do, then to try to venture out on your own into unfamiliar territory. But you know what,…there is no growth in retreat, and not that much satisfaction either, if the truth be told. By now, if you have read much of my writings, you probably know I care less about your feelings than I do about reaching and expressing the highest truth of which I am capable. But feelings are important, very important, they are in fact the most important experience we will have here. So the truth is that feelings, are the reason behind all human endeavor, and if you don’t know or agree with that now, don’t worry about it, someday you will, because there is no other conclusion you can reach, but the truth.

Can you, or should you trust your feelings? What if you do trust your feelings, does that mean “I ” should trust them as well? Maybe you should trust “my” feelings instead! Do you see where all this leads to? Can feelings really be applied to anyone other than ourselves? If you act out of your feelings, aren’t you imposing your feelings on the rest of the world, by acting on them, and acting them out? Can we really then, keep our feelings to ourselves, or do we ultimately end up expressing them through our thoughts, words, and actions with other people?

What creates feelings? If you said emotions you’d be wrong,…you have to stay after class. If you said beliefs, you’d be closer to the truth, and if you said your higher self, you would be bang on. Now the illusion is that beliefs and the higher self seem to be separate things. Well lets look at beliefs this way. Beliefs of the highest order, align with the vibrationally highest aspects of God, who is reality. Therefore, at the highest level of universe reality, belief, truth and God, are all one and the same thing. The higher self is an individuated aspect of God, who is aware of its nature, but is lacking the experience of its nature. Messages from your higher self, are of the highest nature, but first they must be heard, then interpreted, then believed and lastly, they must be acted upon.

So,…everyone has feelings, generated by the beliefs they hold about life. Not everyone’s beliefs are synonymous with truth, and so the error of their beliefs becomes reflected in their feelings and emotions. When you act on your feelings, which are based on erroneous beliefs, then you come into conflict with the world and other people. Feelings of love never cause this problem. Regardless of what caused your feelings of love, when you have them, they reflect the truth of God and his created reality. If everyone felt and expressed love all the time, then the world would be a totally different place. But they don’t and it’s not,… so feelings which have no basis in truth, are what is dragging down the quality of life here for everyone.

The question then is, “should I act on my feelings?” I don’t know, because I don’t know what you believe, and frankly, most people don’t know what they believe also. But here is a clue.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, your soul and your might, and your neighbor, as yourself.

If you can get behind that idea, then you can trust your feelings, and should act on them. If not, then it is an indication that you are still doing a group huddle, with the rest of the worlds fear based thinkers.

 http://sanora1.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/can-we-or-should-we-trust-our-feelings/

Life Is Good

Although you may not think you are “intentionally choosing” negativity, you are drawing it to you whenever you place your consciousness on it. You may not be vibrationally aligned to negativity, but the more frequently you let your eyes and consciousness rest upon it, the more it is lowering your vibration, causing you to come into alignment with it.

There are a million and one ways that you can align with lower vibrational realities in this world, which go unnoticed by yourself.

Each time you support a war, or laws that support violence, eliminate personal freedoms, suppress truth, and stratify society instead of unifying it, you are siding with lower vibrational energy. You watch violence for entertainment, fill your minds with the negativity portrayed in the news, and newspapers, and yet claim that you are not intentionally drawing negativity to you.

Life is good for those who choose goodness, not only once, but every day, in every way, in each moment of now. That is how life becomes good for you.

So,…If you want all the goodness that life can offer, start choosing it every day, in every way possible. Make goodness the singular option in life,…and you shall have it.