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Climbing Out of the Shell 2

            Last time (see Part 1), we looked at how to acknowledge what has been done to our psyche, as we have tried to formulate our world, ourselves and others. We got clear on how and why we have constructed our belief system, i.e. where our ego helped enslave us to itself.

            Next, we thanked God for bringing this awareness to us, to see a problem that we didn’t even know that we had. He comes to you when you are ready, strengthening you to see the wisdom of following His steps to set your life aright. Then, suffering will be a forgotten memory, because you won’t need it.

Lastly, we set down a foundation from which to build your compassion from.

Today, let us look at how to live in reality (see The Past Sure is Tense). And as we know, the past is gone, the future is unknowable. So, reality only exists in the present moment.

When you step out of your head, you can live from your heart, living out the plan that God laid out for you before time began. Jehovah has a unique and blessed birthright for you to live right now, ready for you to receive, to rise above your old distorted self:

Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. Col. 3:9, 10. NLT

            Once you connect with God, and are cleansed by the blood of His son, you are free of those layers that were cast upon you by other unconscious people – trapped in their own heads. At the moment you are cleansed, you embody the Truth; and as you do your best to walk in that Certainty, you don’t ever have to tell lies again, to yourself or anyone else.

            You won’t have to lie to protect yourself. You can finally live in the present moment, where your Creator lives. Your life becomes an on-going string of present moments, where all the juice is!

            You are responsible for where your life is, but it was mostly a doing of an unconscious mind. Now, you can begin making conscious choices to live a good life. Don’t regret anything. Everything happened to bring you where you are in this moment.

            For most people, life beckons them with open arms, inviting them to live it. Yet they refuse the opportunity because it doesn’t fit into their matrix of preferences – those that are based upon false meanings. They put their lives on hold, by denying the present moment.

         Life is simple. You are either living in the present moment, or you’re running your fixed mental programs, lost in comparisons, wishing life was something that it’s not. You can tell when you are running from life; it’s when you are entertaining negative thoughts.

            Have compassion for yourself for having experienced that old way of being, and step into living. Wrap your arms around life in the present moment. That’s when God steps in.

            Accept that you have a history, and that it’s gone. Other than any valuable lessons to be learned, that Life Story you concocted is meaningless. When you choose present-moment-living, your past, (and all of the imaginary refuse that you injected into it), will vanish. Then, you won’t have to act it out anymore.

            When you are present, you are in total touch with yourself – aware of how you are being and what you are doing, knowing that you can change those parameters (any blips of unconsciousness), to return to the perfect life God gifted you with. Subsequently, you can be happy at anytime, anywhere, with anyone.  

            You will be engaged with Truth in peace, because you will have a sweet stillness in your head as you listen to the voice of God, who is always there to guide you towards your highest and best life.

            Life hands us events. We will perceive some of them as being painful to experience. We can acknowledge that we are choosing to have that response, as well as, the timeframe that we are dwelling on it. It behooves us to see if we contributed to that event, trash the meanings that we’ve attached to it, take in the lesson to be learned – and let the rest go.

            Many things in life are unavoidable. That is not fatalistic thinking. It is just acknowledging what is so, what is true. Out of that acknowledgment comes a freedom to love and accept the miraculous place that lives in the only moment there is – your present one…

            You don’t need fixing. Never did. You only smothered yourself with bad habits. Congratulate yourself for choosing to stop. When you are successful, help others to do the same.

            No fixing, but most of us have to change our conversation with ourselves. Speak in terms of ‘I’ rather than ‘you;’ e.g. ‘I am feeling this way,’ instead of ‘You are making me feel this way.’ It shifts the responsibility back upon the shoulders of the one who is constructing these viewpoints, to empower you to see it a different way.

            Change ‘why’ questions into ‘how’ questions; e.g. ‘How is this happening to me,’ instead of ‘Why is this happening to me.’ It is a proactive way to reveal how you create the patterns in your life.

            Tend the garden that is your body. Weed out the negativity. Look for the lesson behind any ‘infirmity.’ It’s generally the result of your self-talk. Health degenerates if you shun your responsibility for nurturing it. Believe that healing is possible. Exercise faith, and miracles will follow. Cultivate a healthy mind by aligning it with your spirit.

“…I am the LORD who heals you.” Ex. 15:26 NKJV

            Focus upon clarifying who you really are, and how to be that, rather than trying to be ‘acceptable.’ Detach yourself from all beliefs that are not loving or supporting you or others.

            Don’t be sucked into the black hole of ‘self-improvement.’ It sustains the darkness when you try to fix yourself – reinforcing erroneous thoughts that say there is something wrong with you. If there is anything wrong in your perfection that needs repair, your Creator will do the repairing.

            Do not be concerned about ‘getting anywhere.’ You’re already there – perfect. Just do your best, with no attachment to the outcome. Give that up to God.

         Growth does not come from ‘needing to grow,’ but from inwardly directed awareness – returning home to Jehovah, through Christ. We grow as a human being in order to have a better world. That growth consists of letting more of God in, letting life in, and surrendering to its Maker rather than getting caught up in some doing.

…everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord…I become righteous through faith in Christ…I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Jesus Christ, is calling us. Phil. 3:8, 9, 13, 14. NLT

            We connect with God’s precious present by choosing to reframe the way we look at ourselves and the world around us – knowing that it is only in the present moment where the freedom to love and be loved exists. And we open ourselves up to it, living each day as if it was out last, experiencing each moment as extraordinary, finding joy in every circumstance…

            Goodnight and God bless.

Climbing Out of the Shell

You created a shell to wall off the pain of life at a very early age (see Revealing the Hurt and Part 2 and 3; and Digging in the Dirt and Part 2, 3 and 4). Now that we are clear about how we have tried our best to protect ourselves, and how that has not been working, we can climb out of our shell and lay claim to our God-given and intentional life of victory.

…thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! …be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Cor. 15:57, 58. CSB

For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. 1 Jn. 5:4, 5. NLT

         It should come as no surprise that we need help to rise out of the muck of our own making. Our ultimate Helper is Jesus Christ.

            We have taken the first step, by acknowledging that we have not been true to ourselves. It is not something to feel bad about. All of humanity has been force-fed similar generational devil-induced mental and spiritual onslaughts against their goodness (see A Devilish Indoctrination).

            You were born perfect; and after you became aware of the original sin, and hopefully came to Jesus, you remain perfect through His cleansing blood; and when He comes back, you will be eternally perfected. Learn to keep Christ’s magnanimity front and center on your mental stage.

            Unfortunately, there are still a lot of people who don’t know what we know. They are still being lied to by that voice they created in their heads, who stomps all over their perfection. These folks are living in a defensive mode, continually trying to protect themselves from a potential recurrence of some past event (real or imagined), that they were not equipped to process at that time.

            No one asks to be hurt, frightened, or filled with self-doubt. It was an unconscious process; but it can be undone by becoming aware of the status quo and realizing all the efforts that you make to maintain an unworkable state. Then, we withdraw from all of the agreements we made with our ego.

            The second step to climbing out of your shell is to thank God for bringing you the awareness you needed to know that a choice exists for having a much grander life:

Think of it – the LORD is ready to heal me! I will sing his praises with instruments every day of my life in the Temple of the LORD. Is. 38:20 NLT

            We are not our false mind (see Evolution of the Dark Mind). Otherwise, we would not be able to listen to its onslaught. First and foremost, we are spirit beings; we are awareness.

         Jehovah is our life, happiness and peace. Yet because of His promise of honoring our free-will decisions, He cannot touch our lives unless we are presenting our spiritual awareness instead of living out of our old satanic indoctrination.

            Prayerfully ask for strength to be able to keep your awareness focused upon God and then all that you need will be revealed, light driving out darkness. There are only two options in life, the Divine, or the satanic. Love and healing begin when you say, ‘Thank you God.’

            We will only get past this ‘big sleep’ that we heretofore called ‘life’ when we become aware of how we’ve been living it, taking responsibility for it (without judgment), and see what that has cost us.

            Then, we can come from a place where we can begin to think and do things differently – first by removing the suffering from ourselves, and then help others do the same. That’s called compassion. We are not alone; our suffering is not unique. When one suffers, we all suffer.

            When you know that you are a part of a oneness with God, you will see through the adversary’s tactics of alienation, which includes trying to breed a fear in you of revealing your true self. Jehovah will help you break the grip of this age of anxiety.

            Let’s consider some pillars of truth that we can use to bolster our compassion:

  1. You are a gift from God to everything else in this universe. No one or nothing else possess your unique gift(s). You bring them just by being who God created you to be. You are special beyond measure; and so is everybody else.
  • Whatever happened to you was not your fault. You deserve nothing but compassion. And so does everyone else.
  • Life is a gift; and we are a gift to life.
  • There is nothing wrong with you or anyone or anything around you. When you realize God’s perfection in you, you’ll understand that there is nothing that you have to change, fix or improve. All you need to do is shed the layers of armor that you thought you had to wear, to cover your imaginary imperfections. No one can make you less perfect in the eyes of God.
  • We try to control life, thinking that the reason it is not turning out right, is due to our failure to control ourselves. Control is an illusion. Instead, we can choose to respond to the present moments differently from how we used to, by letting go of the lies we were told and told ourselves and the conclusions we drew. In awareness, we can be ‘at cause’ for what happens in our lies. Our future is not predetermined or immutable.
  • All people seek happiness and fulfilment, but most have had to contend with the suffering that accompanies despair, sadness, loneliness, guilt and shame. Anything that we have done, we did out of fear, trying to survive the life that we made. We deserve compassion, not condemnation. And compassion only grows out of forgiveness.
  • Wisdom comes to us as slow as molasses in January and is usually borne out of unpleasant circumstances. When we think we can tolerate these no longer, we build walls of defense – severing ourselves from the wisdom that these circumstances were meant to impart. Our demons from the past are illusory, but the pain we harbor is real. Everyone does their best to avoid suffering.

       You cannot wait until you feel that you’ve become a better person, or until you feel your life is straightened out before you give compassion to yourself. Life will just continue to pass you by.

      Be kind to yourself. Acknowledge your Herculean efforts to survive, to do good things, to be a good person and to find love.

      Appreciate your mental creativity and have compassion for yourself for feeling that you needed those creations to make you whole. You had the power to make them and with God at your side, you will be able to deconstruct them and be set free.       

      Once you offer yourself and others compassion, acceptance will follow. When you understand your actions, you will understand the actions of others. Accept that we all struggle and bring meanings to things where it isn’t applicable. And we keep struggling until we let those meanings go.

      We regain our life when we lose our mind. All of us share the same ways of being human, both workable and not, all fighting the same fight. When you accept yourself, you’ll stop hating yourself and others. When you love yourself, you will love and accept others.

      Accept that you lack nothing, and that you are not the voice in your head. Your world is perfect because you accept that acceptance is a life-long exercise of love.

      Give compassion to yourself for having lived in fear of both change and pain. Embrace the pain instead, as a harbinger of a transformational learning experience, as you become aware of why you felt that pain in the first place.

      When you establish a new love relationship with you, along with the kindness, compassion and acceptance that follows, you’ll find that love reflected back at you. It does involve work, but it takes and equal amount of effort to hold onto your misery.

         Everything that you’ve ever been looking for, is within you – even and especially, God Himself…

            Goodnight and God bless.

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