Free your Mind
I love the part in the Matrix movie where Morpheus tells Neo to ‘Free his mind’ and I particularly love the ending where our ‘fully-realised’ hero flies away…
The flight of the spirit (made flesh) is congruent with a mind that is free of emotional entanglement.
When I have the time I often listen to the wonderful teachings of Abraham (through Esther Hicks) and what recently stuck in my mind was how our personal vibration is playing off of our innermost desires, which can be empowered by what we say or completely at odds with our words. In Abraham’s beautiful analogy – when we are in alignment (living our lives in accordance with) our innermost desires then we are in our natural state of empowering self – flowing with our spirit…
To box ourselves in to where we effectively deny our innermost desires is a path that can never fulfil us and can only lead to disease.
The other night I had a very interesting conversation with a hypnotherapist and we found that we had much in common. The gentleman told me how he found all this ‘personal evolutionary stuff’ really interesting but how at times he got a bit overwhelmed and even depressed by it all. Others came into the conversation and as I listened to my friends, it reminded me of Abraham’s flowing river, and I said, “it doesn’t matter where you’re at in your life (where you put your canoe in the river); what matters is that you find fulfilment for yourself at exactly where you are now”.
The more we understand the Spiritual Journey, the more of a tall order it can seem to be; but this is not really the case because being ‘spiritual’ is nothing more than living true to yourself and satisfying your innermost desires.
Relationships are difficult because we tend to want to please our partners yet they are rarely complete enough to satisfy us on all levels, so we compromise our true self in order to please the one – it doesn’t work; it just turns us upstream…
It is rare for us to find fulfilment with one person and it is a teaching for us to understand that we’re not supposed to. We simply have a responsibility to find fulfilment for ourselves, even if that means living a multi-faceted, many lives existence. It is far more liberating to do that than be fighting the current of a fast-flowing river.
So how do we create a new reality? We use the faculty that we’ve got – the brain. What fires in your brain (your thinking) creates your reality. And what fires is directly dependent on what is ‘wired’. If you continually associate two things in your mind then, over time, they will become hard-wired in your brain and you’ll struggle to experience one without the other. What’s the significance of this?
Your brain works by association so if you’ve associated something you want with an emotion then you’re not going to get one without the other. For instance, you may have had fleeting moments of joy in your life that you’ve associated with memories of pain, suffering or despair; which means that any joy you experience in the future will be tainted by your past experience (what is wired together fires together).
Is freeing your mind then about putting the jigsaw puzzle together or about breaking it up? Taking the example of joy, should you be focussing on achieving this blissful state or should you be trying to untangle yourself from that which is not joyful?
If you focus on something that you want and at the same time ‘know’ what you’re ‘feeling’ and identify the ‘voices’ in your head, then you’ll get to understand what your desire is wired with. It’s then a process of weeding your beautiful garden…
We have to pull our energy off of our ‘conditioned’ past and the unwise associations we have made in order for our power of focussed manifestation to be restored. It is futile to try and add more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle when you’re picture is already flawed by the pieces you’ve already put together. Am I making any sense here? Unless you do the work you will find that your future will closely resemble your past.
I go into more detail about tending the garden of your mind in my book ‘we are here to know ourselves’ (Chapter: Cultivate your Mind).
What fires in your brain affects your electro-magnetic field (your aura energy) and this is the lawmaker in your reality. The universal intelligence only brings to you what you are energetically asking for, whether it’s what you really want or not. For instance, you could want joy in your life but you’ve previously wired it with despair, so you focus on having more joy but all you get is more despair…
We have to untangle ourselves from the past and then wire up (by the same process of association and repetition) what it is that we want. This applies to every conceivable reality we can imagine. We get the reality that’s firing in our brain – no exceptions.
Copyright Gary Bate 2010
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