WHY IT’S TIME TO LEAVE YOUR OLD SELF-PERCEPTIONS BEHIND
IT DOESN’T SEEM to matter if we are 18 or 81, our self-perception may be the biggest key to our progress and happiness, or misery and struggle.
No matter what the circumstances are in our lives our self-perception and it’s ability to frame our thoughts and emotions, creates our next moment in every moment.
What you are thinking and feeling right now usually moves ahead into your next moment in reality.
Why? Because self-perception is tied to emotion, and emotion is tied to the heart, and deeply tied to experiential outcomes through an unseen merger with the quantum field.
“Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” Peter McWilliams
THE BODY:
From childhood onward, our self-vision changes as we take on other roles. We become a mother, a father, a career person, a manager, a creative, a giver… all of these things are part of our self-view and our world-view. However, our thoughts can be a big disservice by keeping us stuck in old memories, or judgments. Reminding us of things told to us about ourselves by others. Things we never should have accepted, and certainly shouldn’t still be holding on to.
The emotions derived from life experiences become entrained with the memory, the mind and the muscle. This sets up a ‘re-looping’ of the memory in order to protect us and direct our navigation by causing us to overthink and stop before we enter risk. It’s a program for protecting the species.
Consequently, we have become beings so absorbed in the processes of being human that we have forgotten that body, mind and spirit are all separate pieces of our wholeness, which consistently work together behind the scenes. We don’t notice the interactions with our spirit, or the pulses of our higher-mind because we don’t see them in action.
Radio, television and phone transmissions can’t be seen either, nevertheless they exist and we know this because the receiver transmutes the signals into visual or audio matter.
Is it any wonder that we only relate to the body and the thoughts in our head?
This self-blinding, single-mindedness is the human condition. And as many spiritual guru’s tell us, this is the condition we came here to understand, and to finally release.
Right now, we are waist deep in a historical and spiritual period we should refer to as, the Great Transformation. I believe this time is a divinely- orchestrated period of intensity in order to push us into a higher evolutionary level. If we avoid utilizing the opportunity individually, we cannot evolve collectively, and may then cease to exist as so many civilizations have before us. Evolution is necessary.
Flowing with the wave of this transformation requires us to become more in alignment with all that we are. An alteration in self-perception plays a vital role. As we move ahead so must the wisdom of how we perceive ourselves.
The historical and physical component of this great transformation is obvious. We can’t even look away because things are happening so rapidly.
THE SPIRIT:
But the spiritual piece is personal and internal. It involves our intrinsic connection with nature and a more expansive awareness, a curiosity, a desire to know and be one with all that we are.
Spiritual is a bit different from Religious, though they are partners on the same coin.
Spirituality is based on a personal communication, belief and interaction with the gifts of the Divine. It is an acknowledgment that the two are one in some way that is beyond words and beyond human understanding. An awareness of living within that unexplained oneness includes living in connection with one’s own spirit. A spirit that is not only worthy but able to be present and co-creating in a state of evolution and grace, along with the Divine...even in the midst of human imperfections.
THE MIND:
Einstein had said; “The rational mind is a faithful servant, but the intuitive mind is a precious gift, and we live in a world that has honored the servant but has forgotten the gift.”
Our higher-mind works more effectively with us when we stop allowing our thoughts to drive us. The better option, the one that generally ‘spells relief’, is to consciously create open times and open spaces for Intuition to drop ideas and solutions into our field of thoughts, and into our field of matter.
Nature walks, meditation, intentional presence in the moment are all good options for creating space.
It all comes down to CHOICE.
Right now, there is a sweeping avalanche of struggle, beauty and shining moments of breakthroughs within an unfathomably huge part of humanity! It can be witnessed easily if one bothers to take notice. You may have noticed too the surge of interest in Spirituality, and in subjects that lead one to accessing higher-consciousness.
This inner commitment by so many is where hope resides for the outer transformation of humanity as a whole into something that looks like and lives like peace and respect. We are clearly riding the waves of a crucial inner and outer evolution.
It is no mistake your soul chose to be here during this time. We may make up the group that volunteered to come in because we want to be done with this revolving door of reincarnation. “This will be the last time!” That may be the communal call of our team spirit! No pun intended.
LOOKING AT HURDLES:
Self-perception and choice-awareness is the steering wheel for your next moment of self-direction. Wishing and hoping is important but it is also a tool for stalling. This is where the mind idles like a car sitting in Park.
Choosing to make progress is being proactive, like putting the vehicle in drive and taking off. Set your intention and just take one little step forward.
Managing our thoughts by redirecting them when they pop-in with something that keeps us in Idle, will take us to a fork in the road where without hesitation we will chose our next step. With every thought and every self-perception we have that choice.
How can we tell it’s time to change our self-perception & self-awareness?
#1. You recognize that your perception of yourself, and/or of your world is no longer serving you.
#2. You feel fearful and stagnant.
#3. You’ve tried tons of new practices and ideas but you still stay stuck in the same thought patterns and outcomes you’ve experienced for years. ‘The Gerbil Wheel’.
#4. You’ve made progress but you don’t know where to go or what to do next. You need clarity.
#5. You keep conjuring reasons about why things won’t work, or why the timing isn’t right.
#6. You feel exhausted, burned-out and lack the energy to believe in yourself or do anything differently.
#7. Anxiety has become your partner.
How can we jump-start this journey?
ALLOW YOUR TRIALS TO BE THE GATEWAY TO YOUR REVELATIONS.
First, we choose to know more about who we are fully as a human in matter. Choose to know and merge with all of ourselves...our body our mind and our spirit.
Why should we limp through life only knowing and accessing one part of ourselves?
Our outer-world teaches us to live in and know the outer-world for self-preservation. But we surely have gotten stuck in this one piece of who we are. (Think about how your phone or computer or television pulls you into the rabbit hole. Pure trappings of physical the outer-world consciousness).
The two other components, the Mind – our controllable driver, and our Spirit – the divinely connected magician, is where the riches reside.
It’s a serendipitous adventure!
A simple shift of perception may be the pivitol turning point you’ve been hoping for.
Do keep an eye on your inbox, and maybe give some thought to why you are ready to embrace a new perception of you!
Later this week, I will be sending out an opportunity to awaken an expanded perception of all the beautiful parts of you and their Divine workings, through a series of special Guided Meditations.
Happy Daylight Savings Time – MORE SUN!
Peace, Love, & Divine Blessings,
Linda