Envision What You'd Like to See

 

Fear is such a strong emotion.  It can have a very high volume.  And it can almost act like a vortex, drawing to us what we don’t want to have happen.  One of my spiritual teachers once said to me that it is important not to imagine destruction.  

Our minds are very creative and they can also direct the focus of our lives.  ‘Is the glass half empty, or is the glass half full?’  Where we hold our thoughts creates our perspective of reality.  If we think the world is terrible and going to hell, then it is.  If we think the world is beautiful and people are pretty nice, then they are.

Sure, there are stinker moments, and stinker people too, but we don't have to dwell there.  We can shift our focus and choose to see what is good and right and true, and then place our minds in a new direction and take that new path.

I feel that there is a big difference between judgement and discernment.  Judgement holds us, and others, in a particular pattern.  Discernment lets us decide what works for us and it shows us where we’d like to go.  Discernment also helps us to let go.  We no longer have to strive against the other.  We can simply let them be and direct our energies, instead, onto our own path.  And the others will either change on their own and join us, or simply fall away.

It’s a lot less stressful, really, when we follow our inspirations and go where we feel called.  So, let’s all envision what we’d like to see and then head in that direction.  My bet is that we’ll all end up with what we’d really love.  Our joy, after all, holds an equally loud volume, and it calls out to those around us to join us in the fun.  

 

Orchid Photo by Aleta Arthur

The Final Judgement Day

What if the final judgement day is just that, the day when we all finally stop judging?  I think that is when we will enter the gates of heaven and it will be right here on earth, while we are alive.  We don't need to die to find Nirvana.  Many of those among us who are living have gone there and come back to tell us the tale.  Jill Bolte Taylor, with her book, My Stroke of Insight and Anita Moorjani with her's, Dying To Be Me, have both already shown us the way.

When Jill found herself only in her right brain consciousness after suffering a massive blood clot in the left hemisphere of her brain, she experienced the euphoria of oneness.  She found herself totally immersed in the magnificence of the energy around her and became the life force power of the universe.  She said that her experience was beautiful, compassionate and loving.  And when Anita died from end stage cancer in 2006, she realized while in the depths of her near death experience that God was not a being, external to her, but a state of being that is a part of her.  She explained that the God-self is accessible to everyone of us, when we shift from judgement to compassion and understanding.

Anita went on to share her view of hardened criminals, saying that they are only acting out of their own pain and fear and that their actions are fully understandable from a compassionate, empathetic pint of view.  This perception let her drop judgement and fear.  She was also able to see that it was her fears that had created the choices in her life that resulted in her disease.  Releasing those fears and opening up to her God-self caused her disease to vanish.

All of this seems like a very good idea to me.  What do you say we try a little experiment in consciousness and explore the edges of human evolution.  Let's develop our right brain awareness and drop our judgement by reaching for understanding and see what happens.  It sure would be nice to step into heaven on earth and have that final judgement day.  I'm game.  How about you?

© Josephine Laing 2016