If you think that going to church once a week, or praying three or five times per day are enough and will save you from evil, you are making a big mistake. Understand that evil never sleeps, nor goes on vacation. Constant and never ending prayer, meditation and connection to God should, therefore, be your moment to moment habits.
Temptations are like traps, waiting for you at every corner of the street. But if your connection to God or the Holy Sprit is not strongly maintained, you will get trapped all the time. And the more trapped you get, the more difficult your release from the evil's web will be.
You get trapped by becoming angry, furious, sad, anxious, afraid, jalous, etc. You get trapped when you hold grievances against someone or something. You get trapped when you feel poor, abandonned, alone, or not loved, etc.
In a word, anytime you act or react negativeley to someone or something, you've got trapped. And generally, this is also followed by a negative emotion in you, that makes you feel bad. This is so because you have made an erroneous judgement which is far from the truth about this person, yourself, or this thing.
Be vigilant and alert, therefore, about all the traps that surround you. And this should not be a periodic or a from time to time endeavour. It is a permanent task. Because as long as you live, temptations will always be on your way.
There will never be a moment where you will be without them. Night and day, they are part of the illusions which you call life. One of their main objective is that once you get trapped by believing in their reality, you become also attached to them. And this attachment is at the origin of your suffering.
To have peace and happiness then, release yourself from your attachment to this shadow life by laughing at all the traps that seem to threaten you. They want you to take them seriously, through this attachment, so that you suffer and feel powerless. But instead of doing that, ignore them. See them just as the mere smoke they are.
Again, laugh at them; laugh at anything that seems to bother you and refuse to behave as they want you to do. Their objective is to make you feel trapped, prisoner and afraid. But you can set yourself free by turning your back to them.
Remember one thing. Nothing, outside of you, really exists. Every person, everything, is merely your own reflection. And if you can fight against your shadow, you can also fight with your outer life, events, people ans circumstances. The implication of this assertion is that whatever you do, you do it to yourself.
Think about it and...
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Showing posts with label spider web. Show all posts
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Escape from the mind web
Today, we come back again to a subject we discussed yesterday and the day before. This subject is the web we wrap ourselves in, everyone of us, without exception. You know, human mind is like a spider web whose threads are made of all our troubles, problems and challenges in life that cause doubts, worries and fears in us all the time.
We said that when the fly gets caught in the web, the solution is not to resist and attempt hardly to escape from the web. This is useless, because the more it tries, the more trapped it gets. The same thing applies to human being when being trapped in one or many difficult situations. There is no solution in anger, worry, frustration or fear.
Because the more you engage yourself in these negative attitudes, the more opaque and dark your view becomes. What to do then ?
As already suggested, one part of the solution is to relax and become still. In fact, just like the fly, you have no choice at all. Whatever it does, it will remain trapped in the web, as you will be in your mind.
Another part of the solution is to recognize that you have not the power to escape by yourself, and to surrender to something greater than you, a power which is in you that knows everything and can do anything.
If the fly stops struggling and becomes still, chances are that in time, its body would become a little bit heavy, be droped from the threads that maintain it prisoner and get free. Unfortunatly, the fly cannot think this way.
In the case of human being, things are a little bit different. Man is not physically prisoner, but mentally, because he thinks. The thoughts he helds in his mind are the roots of all his troubles. When he struggles and resists against the threats (thoughts) of his mind related to his problems, this becomes an attack, and attack implies separation. You would not attack your Self if you knew that it is you. No.
In a word, when you resist something, that means you think it is separate from you. But it is not. Nothing is separate from you. You are everything around you, no exception, even if you don't think so. But, because you don't know it or believe it, you attack it by resisting and struggling against it.
But the truth is, nothing is separate from you. Nothing. We are all One, and resisting against something is resisting against yourself. That's why you suffer, because in your resistance you are attacking your own Self, and this attack is a denyal of the love which is due to yourself.
When you remember that we are all One, including everybody, everything and every circumstance, that Life loves you and is never against you, that everything that happens to you is for your highest good, you realize that the only relationship you must have with Life is the one of love and gratitude, instead of resistance and struggle.
When you reach this point, Life, Love, God, All That Is, supports you. All the threads that kept you captive are transformed into love and you are free. You are here to come back to Yourself to Love, which is who you really are.
Be grateful, therefore, for anything that comes your way, because it is part of You...
Stay synchronized...
We said that when the fly gets caught in the web, the solution is not to resist and attempt hardly to escape from the web. This is useless, because the more it tries, the more trapped it gets. The same thing applies to human being when being trapped in one or many difficult situations. There is no solution in anger, worry, frustration or fear.
Because the more you engage yourself in these negative attitudes, the more opaque and dark your view becomes. What to do then ?
As already suggested, one part of the solution is to relax and become still. In fact, just like the fly, you have no choice at all. Whatever it does, it will remain trapped in the web, as you will be in your mind.
Another part of the solution is to recognize that you have not the power to escape by yourself, and to surrender to something greater than you, a power which is in you that knows everything and can do anything.
If the fly stops struggling and becomes still, chances are that in time, its body would become a little bit heavy, be droped from the threads that maintain it prisoner and get free. Unfortunatly, the fly cannot think this way.
In the case of human being, things are a little bit different. Man is not physically prisoner, but mentally, because he thinks. The thoughts he helds in his mind are the roots of all his troubles. When he struggles and resists against the threats (thoughts) of his mind related to his problems, this becomes an attack, and attack implies separation. You would not attack your Self if you knew that it is you. No.
In a word, when you resist something, that means you think it is separate from you. But it is not. Nothing is separate from you. You are everything around you, no exception, even if you don't think so. But, because you don't know it or believe it, you attack it by resisting and struggling against it.
But the truth is, nothing is separate from you. Nothing. We are all One, and resisting against something is resisting against yourself. That's why you suffer, because in your resistance you are attacking your own Self, and this attack is a denyal of the love which is due to yourself.
When you remember that we are all One, including everybody, everything and every circumstance, that Life loves you and is never against you, that everything that happens to you is for your highest good, you realize that the only relationship you must have with Life is the one of love and gratitude, instead of resistance and struggle.
When you reach this point, Life, Love, God, All That Is, supports you. All the threads that kept you captive are transformed into love and you are free. You are here to come back to Yourself to Love, which is who you really are.
Be grateful, therefore, for anything that comes your way, because it is part of You...
Stay synchronized...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Releasing resistance
Yesterday, we've been discussing about resistance we create and wrap ourselves in, whenever we struggle with what is, that we do not like, and attempt hardly to escape from it. And, to illustrate this, we evoked the image of a fly trapped in a spider web and trying desperately and unsuccessfully to escape from it.
The web, as we said, is the representation of any kind of problem we put ourselves in, consciously or unconsciously and for which, in the moment, we have no solution in view, no way out. What we do very often is resisting and trying hardly, like a fly, to escape from it. But the more we try, the more tied we get in the web of our problem.
The wise thing to do, instead of struggling and resisting like a fly in the web, is to immerse ourselves completely and lovingly into the situation, be silent, still and let go entirely. When you achieve this state of total abandonment and nothingness, you become resistant free. Yes. You must become nothing in order to release your resistance.
When you oppose yourself to the situation and struggle, you want to prove to yourself that you are something you are not. And, because of trying, you activate resistance in you that maintains you captive in its web.
Your situation, whatever it is, is always twofold : one side you like, and another you dislike and resist. Generally, we focus on the side we dislike and try to change it directly. But the more we try, the more resistance we create and the more strength it gets. At the end, nothing changes at all and things become even worse.
Nevertheless, there is a solution to this issue. It consists in completely forgetting what we dislike, and focusing only on the other side, which is evidently what we prefer. We must realize that our attention on anything is what creates and perpetuates what we focus on. Removing our attention from something literally disintegrates it.
Therefore, refuse to face the situation by completely removing your attention from it. Let go of your pride and let a power far greater than you to handle the situation, whatever it may be, by focusing only on what you'd prefer, which is its opposite side.
Nothing is above this power which is in you. And the only thing that prevents it from working is you, when you try to be in charge and the doer. The only thing that is required from you, to activate it is giving up struggle and letting go. Then, turn all your attention on what you want or prefer, be grateful, appreciate, love with all your heart.
Why ?
In order to really understand and integrate the necessity for you to let go of your struggle and replace it by your gratitude, faith and trust to your Higher Self, you must start from the following premises :
1- Your Higher Self, or God, loves you unconditionally.
2- Everything that happens to you is for your highest good. Everything.
3-Because every moment and in every situation, you are given the opportunity to
chose what you prefer and manifest it. Always.
4- If you don't know why or how, God does.
5- Let go of your struggle once and for all
6- You attention on what you prefer is the key
7- Have faith, be grateful, appreciate and love
Always, and every time, have these premises in your mind. Remember to let go of any struggle by removing your attention from what you do not want. Then, put it only on what you want with gratitude, appreciation, love and faith.
Stay synchronized...
The web, as we said, is the representation of any kind of problem we put ourselves in, consciously or unconsciously and for which, in the moment, we have no solution in view, no way out. What we do very often is resisting and trying hardly, like a fly, to escape from it. But the more we try, the more tied we get in the web of our problem.
The wise thing to do, instead of struggling and resisting like a fly in the web, is to immerse ourselves completely and lovingly into the situation, be silent, still and let go entirely. When you achieve this state of total abandonment and nothingness, you become resistant free. Yes. You must become nothing in order to release your resistance.
When you oppose yourself to the situation and struggle, you want to prove to yourself that you are something you are not. And, because of trying, you activate resistance in you that maintains you captive in its web.
Your situation, whatever it is, is always twofold : one side you like, and another you dislike and resist. Generally, we focus on the side we dislike and try to change it directly. But the more we try, the more resistance we create and the more strength it gets. At the end, nothing changes at all and things become even worse.
Nevertheless, there is a solution to this issue. It consists in completely forgetting what we dislike, and focusing only on the other side, which is evidently what we prefer. We must realize that our attention on anything is what creates and perpetuates what we focus on. Removing our attention from something literally disintegrates it.
Therefore, refuse to face the situation by completely removing your attention from it. Let go of your pride and let a power far greater than you to handle the situation, whatever it may be, by focusing only on what you'd prefer, which is its opposite side.
Nothing is above this power which is in you. And the only thing that prevents it from working is you, when you try to be in charge and the doer. The only thing that is required from you, to activate it is giving up struggle and letting go. Then, turn all your attention on what you want or prefer, be grateful, appreciate, love with all your heart.
Why ?
In order to really understand and integrate the necessity for you to let go of your struggle and replace it by your gratitude, faith and trust to your Higher Self, you must start from the following premises :
1- Your Higher Self, or God, loves you unconditionally.
2- Everything that happens to you is for your highest good. Everything.
3-Because every moment and in every situation, you are given the opportunity to
chose what you prefer and manifest it. Always.
4- If you don't know why or how, God does.
5- Let go of your struggle once and for all
6- You attention on what you prefer is the key
7- Have faith, be grateful, appreciate and love
Always, and every time, have these premises in your mind. Remember to let go of any struggle by removing your attention from what you do not want. Then, put it only on what you want with gratitude, appreciation, love and faith.
Stay synchronized...
Monday, February 2, 2009
Until you embrace,appreciate and love what is, it will just stay there
Have you ever seen a fly trapped in a spider web ? have you ? If yes, what have you noticed ?
Haven't you observed that the more it struggles and attempts hardly to escape from the web, the more strongly trapped it becomes ?
Yes, that's it. And it is like that with us, also. Every time you are confronted with some difficult issue, for example in your relationship, your work, family, business or finances and try hardly to fight against it and to push it away, you create a great resistance. And the more hardly you try, the more resistance you create, to such an extent that the way out seems almost impossible.
You have probably heard that "what you resist persists". That's true. Instead of resisting to what you experience and do not like in your life, be quite, silent and still. Totally, dismiss any form of resistance that may arise from you. Look, listen and appreciate whatever it is there that frightens or disgusts you. Know that everything that comes to you brings something with the purpose to teach or heal you.
Don't escape or fear. If you do not know what it is, ask for guidance to your Higher Self, it will help you. Until you accept what it is and learn the lesson, what you resist will not leave you. It will stay there. Until you love and accept fully what is there, it will not go away.
The only thing you have to do is give up struggle and resistance. Then embrace, love, appreciate whatever it is there, in order to learn from it get and receive your gift. Otherwise, your struggle will never stop and you will stay in captivity forever.
Stay synchronized...
Haven't you observed that the more it struggles and attempts hardly to escape from the web, the more strongly trapped it becomes ?
Yes, that's it. And it is like that with us, also. Every time you are confronted with some difficult issue, for example in your relationship, your work, family, business or finances and try hardly to fight against it and to push it away, you create a great resistance. And the more hardly you try, the more resistance you create, to such an extent that the way out seems almost impossible.
You have probably heard that "what you resist persists". That's true. Instead of resisting to what you experience and do not like in your life, be quite, silent and still. Totally, dismiss any form of resistance that may arise from you. Look, listen and appreciate whatever it is there that frightens or disgusts you. Know that everything that comes to you brings something with the purpose to teach or heal you.
Don't escape or fear. If you do not know what it is, ask for guidance to your Higher Self, it will help you. Until you accept what it is and learn the lesson, what you resist will not leave you. It will stay there. Until you love and accept fully what is there, it will not go away.
The only thing you have to do is give up struggle and resistance. Then embrace, love, appreciate whatever it is there, in order to learn from it get and receive your gift. Otherwise, your struggle will never stop and you will stay in captivity forever.
Stay synchronized...
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