We are all recreating our selves
I love the opportunity to do this I have great hope. I feel soon I will not be alone any more. Can we have a topic on resolving our past beings so we can yak on ou future ones. Keep it to person observations of ones self, leaving all judgement. I am invited to start a discussion and here I have!
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Permalink Reply by Deanne Rocchietti on -
Hi John
Hope is something a LOT of people can use in the world right now, as SO MUCH is changing. It's difficult adjusting to all that is going on inside my body/mind/spirit and this entire planet. We are all evolving at an accelerated rate and there is NO QUESTION that we are, as a species, increasing our awareness/consciousness and beginning the process of creating a new world view - one where we understand we are ALL CONNECTED and only together can we cocreate a better world!
I've been on a conscious spiritual journey for over twenty years now, healing my body, mind and spirit as well as seeking out and testing how life works. Being a natural problem solver, I first tried getting everything on the outside that "looked" like success, but it didn't give me joy. So, I went inside and believe me, that hasn't been a lot of fun because I grew up in a very DARK family (lots of abuse and neglect.) But over the years I have found many Teachers (they're EVERYWHERE, in many forms) that have helped me to recreate myself, including making direct contact with the Divine, through daily meditation.
I LOVE this topic of discussion and will really enjoy reading what others are doing to recreate ourselves, one heart at a time.
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Permalink Reply by John Saunders on -
Hi Deanne,
You so right about us all needing to be connected, it is a tricking one the old horse to water analogy comes to mind. It is amazing to thing what we have all been though in reaching our point in the universe. Me I come from a back ground that should be perfect but I was compelled to leave it to seek out confronting situations and through that I have found out a bit about my potential as a human being. I hope more can join us it would be good to find out other peoples experiences.
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Permalink Reply by Ferdinand Zanda on -
Every day is new, but it's hard not to leave any mess behind. So although it's a new day, I'm confronted with the rubble of the past. Personally I notice we humans tend to act the same way over and over again. When I was young, learning to write was a struggle. Now I can do it easily, but only in my own handwriting. If I want to change it's a struggle again. So recreating myself takes effort. And I'm not always up to it.
There are periods when I am full of energy and I feel really connected. Then it is more easy and giving effort even pleases me. And then I loose this again and I wish and long for this state of being. But I also notice that the periods of connectedness get longer and are happening more often. When you say it's about resolving our past beings I'm with you. Somewhere I knew, when I was a child (at the age of five) that there was a struggle ahead. It was not only traumatic experience in this life but also strong recurring dreams of guilt and deep fear on cosmic scale that made me aware of this. I knew it would take time, effort and pain to resolve this.
Now I'm 33 years old and the resolving is near. One of my latest insights is about pain. My 'normal' attitude to pain is that I wan't to feel as less of it as possible. But I also know that I have to face it someday, somehow. For not facing it means closing off a piece of myself. And together with not really feeling pain and letting pain be, also I can not really feel joy, or love, or connection to others. So this let me to the point where I, in full consciousness face the pain the moment it happens. And afterwards I meditate on it. Consciously feeling it again and staying with it. Then I try to figure out where it comes from. Sometimes it connects to older pain and other times to a conviction about myself. But always I come to the conclusion it's me, myself causing the pain. That's a very restful thought, because if I cause it myself, I also can deal with it. In every single case I can think of a solution like; forgiving people (because it's not them hurting me anymore but it's me by not forgiving them) or by changing some conviction I somewhere created, like: "I'm not good enough" in "I'm good the way I am). In the meditation I connect the solution I found with the feeling of pain. The next time a similar situation occurs, I notice, I deal with it differently. Something has changed, I recreated a part of myself.
The result of this overwhelming. More energy, more insight, clearer thinking, stronger feeling, more joy, more sense of connection, more productivity, more intuition in daily life, etc..
And one day soon, I recreated myself on this part of pain totally. Free from pain. Not meaning no pain anymore but pain (and joy) becoming more than just feeling(s), becoming sense through which I really connect to the world.
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Permalink Reply by John Saunders on
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acceptance I found was the first step for me and that felt like what I am understanding from you Ferdinand and from that I found some understanding and then I had to feel compassion to get to peace. Your right about it happening over and over again being faced by the challenges. It is a quicker process each time and when you can go through it in a single glance when you recognise somebody who wishes you harm, it is amazing. It's so amazing to think of us all awakening like this together.
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Permalink Reply by Ferdinand Zanda on
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And it's so nice to find people to share with... I really feel this is another step to a better world. With 'this' I mean our dialogue, thank you!
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Permalink Reply by John Saunders on
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what I find reassuring is that once I worked out how connected we are the less I needed to reassuring from other people but the more enjoyable it has become when I come across people who are aware. The challenge for me is to focus on the connection even when in contact with people that aren't aware. I've found if I can do that they will respond in the way I am wanting them too even though they don;t understand what is going on.
Dance floor knowledge has helped me with a lot of this. Do you use electronic music in your development Ferdinand?
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Permalink Reply by Ferdinand Zanda on
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Not specifically, but at times I notice I like the rationality of it. I discovered there is a way of experiencing two sides of my consciousness. One being the 'normal' state where ratio leads (and maybe even thinking is in control), this is the dividing part, where I experience the gap between myself and the world, it makes me individual. The other side is my fantasy, here I experience my creativity, I feel the connection with the source and through this to everything. This is the way (for me) to experience oneness.
But it's not ratio OR fantasy. It's ratio AND fantasy. Electronic music helps me sometimes to arrange my fantasy in a systematic way.
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Permalink Reply by John Saunders on
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I've found that when I allow my body to be controlled by the music it gives my mind a freedom. Then I get to observe how my body can act with out the mind. ie the animal behavior that my mind controls or rationalizes. I think it's quite amazing how my body can interact with others, the instincts observing surrounding and interacting when necessary. How the mind can flare up when something triggers it. If my mind can be focused on the connection then it becomes even more powerful. The catching point is that I can get caught up in the imagery of the idea and then loose the point and it goes into ego or what ever it is we call that place where we become absorbed in our imagery of ourselves.
My most memorable time was at dance night that had been started by orange people but some other crew had taken on doing something on alternating fortnights. So it had electronic music progressing on from the world music. I got to a place where I could see, feel an amazing light in front of me and then all the people around me started cheering and it felt like I was pulling them with me and I couldn't manage to take them with me but I couldn't go with out them. From that night on I've realized that we have to go to that place together or not at all.
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