Entries in Consciousness (85)
Liara Covert
Alexander Zoltai recently interviewed me for his website Our Evolution. I would invite you to check that out and also to explore more of his thought-provoking posts:
http://amzuri.wordpress.com/?s=Liara+Covert
Leave a Comment
Email
Print
Human beings are complex creatures that make many different choices. Somewhere, beneath the choices themselves, is the desire to get something out of them. In fact, whether or not you consciously realize it, multiple motives diverge and coalesce.
Let's say your soul is like the centre of your being where all your feelings intersect. Although you have different layers of awareness that are not all aware of each other, at soul level, you have deep awareness of everything that is going on at the same time. This is your control centre that is accessed as you evolve to heighten your soul awareness.
It has been said that each person teaches the self to repress feelings in order to learn to decode them. That's right! You hide feelings from yourself in order to teach yourself lessons, so many in fact, that you aren't consciously aware of all the progress you make.
What all this means is that you can choose to value subtle progress. Certain kinds of learning are more obvious than others. You may tend to feel good when you recognize you have stretched or expanded yourself. Realize that what you consciously notice differs from the big picture. You are developing in more ways than you follow and readily sense or acknowledge. You have more to learn and can value 'the seen and unseen.'
I recently met a woman named Maureen. I sensed the subject of her public presentation would make a thought-provoking guest post. The author has no website, but shares her views freely because she encourages each person to find a way back to the soul.
The third spiritual law of success is the Law of Karma (both action and the consequence of the action). It is cause and effect simultaneously because every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. There is nothing unfamiliar about the Law of Karma. Most everyone has heard the expression, “What you sow is what you will reap.” Obviously, if we want to create happiness in our lives, we must learn to sow the seeds of happiness. Therefore, Karma applies the action of conscious choice-making.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of existence, we are in the field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximise the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of all the choices we make in every moment.
Whether you like it or not, everything that is happening at this moment is the result of choices you have made in the past. Unfortunately, a lot of us make choices unconsciously, and yet we don’ think they are choices...and yet, they are.
If I were to insult you, you would most likely make the choice of being offended. If I were to pay you a compliment, you would most likely make the choice of being pleased or flattered. But think about it: it’s still a choice.
I could offend you and I could insult you, and you could make the choice of not being offended. I could pay you a compliment and you could make the choice of not letting that flatter you either.
In other words, most of us...even though we are infinite choice-makers...have become bundles of conditioned reflexes that are constantly being triggered by people and circumstances into predictable outcomes of behaviour. These conditioned reflexes are like Pavlovian conditioning. Pavlov is famous for demonstrating that if you give a dog something to eat every time you ring a bell, soon the dog starts to salivate when you just ring the bell, because it has associated one stimulus with the other.
Most of us, as the result of conditioning, have repetitious and predictable responses to the stimuli in our environment. Our reactions seem to be automatically triggered by people and circumstances, and we forget that these are still choices we are making at every moment of our existence. We are simply making choices unconsciously. If you step back for a moment and witness the choices you are making as you make these choices, then in just this act of witnessing, you take the whole process from the unconscious realm into the conscious realm. This procedure of conscious choice-making and witnessing is very empowering.
When you make any choice, you can ask yourself two things:
1) What are the consequences of the choice I am making?
2) Will this choice I’m making now bring happiness to me and those around me?
There is only one choice, out of the infinity of choices available to you in every second, that will create happiness for you as well as those around you. And when you make that one choice, it will result in a form of behaviour that is called, ‘spontaneous right action.’ This is the right action at the right moment. You feel it. It’s the right response to every situation as it happens. It’s the action that nourishes you and everyone else who is influenced by that action.
The universe has a mechanism to help you make spontaneously correct choices. This mechanism has to do with sensations in your body. Your body experiences comfort and discomfort. At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body. If your body sends a message of comfort, that’s the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then its not the appropriate choice.
You must become consciously aware that your future is generated by the choices you are making every moment of your life. If you do this on a regular basis, then you are making full use of the Law of Karma.
How often have you heard yourself utter, "you cannot get there?' or "you cannot believe that!" Are you aware that this is self-defeating? You can evolve to change the way you seek what it is you want. You may not yet grasp what is or isn't working and why.
Knowledge isn't something you acquire. In fact, if you pursue knowledge or happiness or anything you asume you don't have, then you already sense you cannot have it. Its an unconscious way to reinforce you don't deserve something or, aren't meant to get it.
Another approach is to believe you have innate wisdom. You are happiness. You are joy. This kind of perspective emerges out of a different kind of self-awareness. When you pursue something, you assume its out of reach. Why not visualize differently?
Think back to when people have asked you what you do. You may have said, "I'm studying to become..." or, "I'm training to be a..." as if you were tentative or hesitant to define what you feel you are. No matter how you earn your living, this is only an external label.
When you develop muscles like body builders, then you develop the outward strength and resilience earned through the training and weight lifting. Similarly, as you evolve to experience complete self-awareness, you will be able to do, sense and experience those things that beings in a heightened state of awareness do. To move into this state means believing you're there is no longer necessary. Rather than believe in becoming, just be.
Many human beings have an easier time discerning what they're not than figuring out what they are. As you relate to this mindset, you may ask when it all began?
Back during school days, you may recall going through a process of elimination. You may have used this technique on multiple choice tests. You may have used this technique to figure out what kind of job, trade or apprenticeship made the most sense at the time.
What about the comparisons you unconsciously make? Many human beings look in the mirror and compare themselves to people around them. You may judge yourself based on invisible standards. If you aren't built like an athlete, then you may tell yourself you aren't meant for sports. if you don't achieve high grades in math, then you may decide you aren't destined for banking or accounting. Does this lead you closer to who you are?
There are always some people who are convinced they know who they are from a very young age. These human beings demonstrate confidence and seem self-directed. They may score well in particular subjects and obtain the diplomas necessary to follow a chosen path. Yet, does one kind of fulfillment mean they know all there is to know about them?
The short answer is only you can answer the question about yourself. It isn't based on what other people believe, approve or disapprove. it isn't based on what you could be doing if you weren't doing what you are. Knowing yourself is a feeling, a state of awareness that is growing. This isn't complacency. It isn't based on an assumption that you've already done all you need to do. There's so much more than you think you know.