Life is Simple

Life is simple, but your mind makes it complicated. 

The simple part is to always remember that there is no need to send your energy outwards towards anyone.  We only send our energy outwards because we are afraid.  Afraid that others will not see us, hear us, understand us, love us, or that they will somehow hurt us. Even if we are doing healing work with others we must be conscious of not trying to manipulate another's energy field.  Instead we send that energy to them for their highest good -- we do not know what there highest good is.

You are an indestructible, immortal being.  That is the truth.  No one can really hurt you.  No one needs to see you for you to be okay.  It is only your mind's fear that creates the idea of hurt, isolation, wrongness, badness, and unlovability.

Remember that you do not need to receive any energy from anyone else.  You are strong in your own energy field and in your own heart.  Your mind is only trying to validate your existence by reaching out to others' energy, for approval or love.

So your job, your practice, is to gain mastery over your mind.  To do this, yes, you must do your practice daily.  No matter what else is going on in your world you must do your practice every day.. even if you believe you have to choose to do a shorter practice, still do your practice.

Don't believe more than 5% of what your mind tells you.  Most of your thoughts will be lies, half truths, fears, judgments, repetitions of other peoples' ideas/beliefs, or random nonsense from the millions of stimuli we all receive each day.  Most of the time you are being thought, rather than actually consciously thinking.

Know that you can choose anything at anytime.  There will be no right or wrong choice.  Only choices that support your highest good and those that do not.  We don't always know whether it is serving our highest good until after we choose, but that is okay because there will always be another bunch of choices waiting to be made.

No one is making you feel anything.  You are choosing how you feel by how you think about what you have experienced... whether you react unconsciously or respond consciously is entirely up to you in every moment.  How can it be about anyone else, since 95% of what others think or say about you is untrue --running through their own filters of ideas, beliefs and fears.  This is like looking through extremely dirty, scratched, and unfocused prescription glasses... there is little clarity that can emerge from this type of unconscious viewing of another person.

Create the space everyday to be still, quiet, whether in the midst of a practice (e.g. yoga, meditation, chanting, prayer...) or in nature.  Wake up to the fact that you are choosing to stand on a theater stage with all these people around you; each of you reading your lines, playing your roles.  Ask yourself, "Did I choose this script, this role?"  If you did, then choose to live it consciously, with total awareness.  If you did not choose this script, this role, then become aware of that fact and vow to stay awake and choose how you want to live this life.  Start now.

Go gently in each moment.  Love your self, moment by moment.

Love,

Edward

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Jal ad-Din Rumi

Healthy Skepticism

Watching a talk given by 'Bashar', an entity channeled by Darryl Anka (www.bashar.org), I noticed my skepticism.  I have personally channeled beings from other realities, as well as people who have died suddenly and traumatically, but not realized they had died, as I helped them move on to the next phase of their paths.  So, why the skepticism?  Because I have had these experiences, as well as mediumship experiences of different forms with people who have passed on, I have very high standards of what I consider to be clear and quantifiable information.

For me, the 'gold standard' for deciding, for example, if a communication purported to be from a deceased love one through a medium is real or not includes: 1) clear, specific, unambiguous information versus general information that could fit anyone of a certain gender, age, demographic etc; 2) information without interpretation by the medium (e.g. 'an older white male wearing a blue shirt and grey wool pants, and holding a shovel has appeared to me; he lets me know that he is your grandfather' versus 'your grandfather is showing me a shovel, which means he loved to garden...'); and finally 3) at least one piece of information must be something that you, the client, does not know about and could have had no way to know about it; which means you, the client, must find a family member or a historical reference to validate that information (e.g. 'the gentleman lets me know that his real name is John Smith, not Byron Jones, his name having been changed when he was adopted at age 6 months').

So, I once channeled --that is, brought through a verbal communication, from a being not of this time-space reality-- Darax, a being who stated his kind did not live in 'mattered reality' as humans do, but rather in a 'fluidic reality'.  What?!  I could easily dismiss this experience as being the product of an over active imagination (for those of you who are familiar with the psycho-spiritual model called the Enneagram will understand when I say this over active imagination is a quality of the Type 4 energy/personality), except for the fact that I was completely surprised by the experiences leading up to this actual communication.

I was working with Bhuvaneswari Devi (www.bhuvaneswari.ca) to increase my already active trance/altered state abilities in order to support the possible communication of wisdom from other than ordinary Earth realities and/or from Earth herself.  In the preparation process Bhuvaneswari taught this energy I felt building inside me to use my vocal cords.  I felt my throat and vocal cords expand, become larger, in a very physical way.  When he, or they since Darax stated he represented the beings from where he existed, actually spoke it was with an accent and a confidence that I did not possess in that moment.

So, while I am very curious about what others are relating via altered states of consciousness, such as Darryl Anka and Bashar, mentioned above, and actually find much of what is communicated either believable or even matching information I have myself received, I still find my skepticism arise.

We must be open to learn, but also open to questioning what we are hearing --the basis of skepticism, which has become warped by those who make being 'skeptics' a full-time career. 

I welcome your skepticism about anything I say or write.

Thanks for listening.

Edward