The One Reality

When you know that consciousness is the one and only reality-conceiving itself to be something good, bad, or indifferent, and becoming that which It conceived itself to be-you are free from the tyranny of second causes, free from the belief that there are causes outside your own mind that can affect your life.
-Neville Goddard ( The Power of Awareness)

What is meant by this passage from Goddard's, The Power of Awareness?

Simply put when we realize how powerful our consciousness is ( our Essence Identity, our spirit, God, the Divine force...or whatever you wish to call this energy that moves us, creates us and the world around us...) we will truly understand that we are not victims to circumstance...We will understand that we create our life experience.  The tool we are given to that with...is our minds.

We create our life experience with our minds?

Pretty powerful statement isn't it? It may go against everything we were brought up to believe. It may go against what most people may believe. We may try as Rumi did to know thyself by copying other people while we walk around asleep...unaware of the dormant force within us.  We stay stuck in our limiting perceptions because we are told we are "supposed to". So possibility of more is something we may push aside for fear of being blasphemous or "crazy". 

Yet so many great teachers, including Christ taught this. 

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me, will do the works I have been doing and they will do even greater than these...John 14: 12 NIV

Belief is a very powerful thing. If we believe...truly believe in the power within us...we can do amazing things. We are not stuck anywhere but in our minds as Patanjali so often taught.

So it is our minds that limit us and our minds that can free us.  But what part of our mind does the bondage and what part of our minds do the liberating?

The subconscious needs looking at

According to Bruce Lipton, it is the subconscious that is both our so called "problem" and our solution.

Most of our negative, repetitive thoughts occur on the conscious level.  They drag us away from the present moment and for that reason are worthy of our attempts to get beneath them.  We can also, because they tend to be negative and Self defeating,  change them, reconstruct them, alter them to create a more positive thought experience.  We can affirm positive things to push the negative dialogue out of our heads.  That's all good and great.  That is even encouraged by the majority of today's population.

Yet...it isn't enough.  It doesn't lead to lasting change in our worlds, does it?  Why?

Because it is just a superficial fix.  Changing our conscious thoughts does not necessarily change our "beliefs" about ourselves and the world.  Those beliefs are ingrained into another part of our minds...the subconscious. Though we may become more and more aware of our conscious thoughts (as is necessary for our healing and evolving) we are often not aware of the belief system that hides in our subconscious minds. It is those beliefs, collected over years of social conditioning and learning, that we need to change, that we need to replace with healthier, more life affirming ones.

How do we do that so we are living the full, abundant lives we are want to live?

1. We need to first of all, recognize our "stuckness".  We need to be aware of what the mind in "status quo'' does to our life experience; how it limits and holds us back; how it creates "suffering".
2. Then we have to accept the possibility of more.  We have to accept the possibility that maybe if we change our minds, we can change our lives. We need to see that we are not victims of Life...we are victims to our minds.  We have forgotten that they are simply tools to help us maneuver through these wordly experiences...not something meant to control us and keep us stuck.
3. Then we need to know who we are.  We need to get beyond the  social  image we have created in our minds to who we truly are. We need to explore Self beneath the image of self. 
4. From there we need to know what we truly want...get beyond what we think we should want, what social media and other opinion dictates.  We need to get beyond what ego wants to what spirit wants. What do you truly want in your Life to be happy, joyful, alive and at peace?  Know that.  Be clear about it.
5. Want it obsessively and passionately!!
6. Then imagine, visualize as if you are living that experience right here and now.  Bring the so called future back to the only time there is...the now. It is best to do some good solid visualizing and imagining exactly what you want right before bed or right as you awaken. Lipton encourages having some type of affirming  recording to drift off to sleep with.
7. Act as if!  Act as if you have what you want in your life.  Act as if you are the exact being you want to be.  Act as if you are living the exact life you dream of living!!!
8. Give it at least three days to happen.  It takes that time for the brain to rewire. May take longer too...so do not put pressure on yourself with an exact time frame for achievement.
9. Don't get caught up in the details.  Step back and let life handle the rest without demanding how it should all get done.
10. Have Faith!!! Keep going back to number 3.

Of course this is a quickly made up how to list.  I will dig into it all a little deeper in the upcoming entries.

All is well!

Barks, Collin (1995 ) The Essential Rumi

Goddard, Neville (1954 )  The Power of Awareness.

Lipton, Bruce (2005 ) The Biology of Belief.

Satchidananda, Sri Swami (2007 ) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.