FREEDOM 5

P. 23-26

There were two major themes that expressed themselves this evening. 1) how bound we are at times with our history and 2) was how fear produces an energetic field which sometimes seems to have a life of its own.

Although as many teachers have pointed out there are only two basic choices, love and fear, I found it interesting that the book explored other dimensions of decision making. It would seem that eventually all comes down to this basic choice of love or fear, however, there are some different forms in which fear or protection might show up in terms of decision-making. 

“If you are not choosing in fear, then how are you choosing? Paul is saying, “I don’t know. How am I?” If you are not choosing in fear, you “How am I?” If you are not choosing in fear, you are choosing in several ways. You are choosing out of habit—“I have always done it this way, so I expect I will continue to”—which is historical data. You are choosing out of expectation. “I am expected to be this or that, so I will act in accord to it.” Or you are choosing in reason. “If I choose this, that will occur. If I choose that, I will have that experience.”

If we look closely at all of those reasons above, it is fairly easy to discern that all of them, in some way or another, are a reflection of our history. So, in some ways, we might say these are some of the many forms that our history can disguise itself, especially in the process of making choices.

It would be quite easy here to get into over-analysis, continually question ourselves: “Why am I doing this or why am I thinking this way?” Amore productive approach would be to open yourself up toexploring the issue of whether this is the most loving way I can respond both for myself as well as for others. Alignment or agreement with love or with Truth, or non-judgement or freedom are all expressions of the Christ or Unity consciousness.

As the book states so wonderfully the small self thinks and the true self knows --And when we are in this awareness

“you begin to bypass the history that has claimed you and claimed your choices for you.”

When we begin to find or discover is that when we are in a state of high vibration, when we are expressing ourselves through love, compassion, gratitude, kindness or willingness, we will experience a flow in our decision making process. We will experience choices that do not seem to be choices anymore, they simply seem to coincide with the natural rhythms of our soul. We are still choosing, but it is not a choice that involves effort or struggle. If I am “in love” then the most natural choices for me will be loving ones. I will not even have to think about i;t I will not have to offer the pluses or minuses to my intellect to decide which is better. I will simply be working from my knowing and my knowing is not something that is created, it is something that is already there it is an aspect of the divine nature that I already am.

We do not wish to ignore what is often referred to as fear,  which certainly presents itself as a factor in the process of decision-making. Much of your histories have been aligned to or in agreement with victimhood, people pleasing, and all of these other stumbling blocks which are a reflection identifying with your smaller limited personality self. Put another way, our histories are a reflection of what we have claimed to be our identity, and, for most of us, because we have learned or been taught this way, our identity is equated with this limited self. As one of my teachers likes to say, “From the moment we are born, all of the people in our lives start telling us who we are and the great difficulty is that none of them know who they are.” But unless we are born with a certain level of infused enlightenment we will most often blindly accept what all of these other people are telling us as being true. For many of us, it is only later in life that we realize we have been “duped,” not intentionally, but we have been lied to by people who have accepted their own lies as being the truth.

Why or how does it seem so difficult to get beyond our histories?

There is a metaphysical principle that states “energy follows thought.” In other words thought produces energy and energy affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The more a particular thought is agreed to or reinforced, the more energy it begins to hold. If this energy is of a lower vibration, then it takes quite a bit of effort to move through the barrier or the inertia that is formed by this energy field. It is much easier to just travel down the pathway that is already been formed. In 12 step recovery programs that is called looking for an “easier softer way.”

In the light of our awareness, however, no matter how much inertia might be bound up in fearful thinking, we begin to recognize that the path we might have followed in the past no longer serves us. And even though it might be easier, simpler to be led down a familiar pathway, once we have reached a certain level of awareness, strangely and paradoxically enough, it becomes more and more difficult to do.

The question came up—“What about the shame, guilt and sense of “selfishness” that come up when we set boundaries, when we say no, when we listen to the heart rather than the ego, when we go beyond our histories?”

The answer was expressed: “Your guilt, shame, sense of ‘selfishness’ are illusions created by your history.”

Now here is a great truth—the more you become willing to follow the patterns of higher vibration the easier it becomes. The difficulty or the struggle only comes from your limited perception. The Divine self has no problem embracing love and compassion. That is not a difficult choice, it is an obvious one and a natural one as well.

So here is what the guides are speaking about the most here, as we align ourselves with Divine truth not only does that raise the level of higher vibrational energies but it also raises us above the struggles or difficulties that are small self is creating through its limited perception.

“The agreement you will make with us today, if you wish, is that each encounter you have may be in alignment or agreement to truth. Do you hear these words? If each encounter you “you hear these words? If each encounter you have is in alignment or agreement to truth, you are not bound by history or expectation or reason—and, we would promise you, you are not choosing in fear.”

It is time to be reminded once again, that the work that you are doing is affecting and transforming you. This is not a an intellectual learning process or simply an expansion of ideas or information, but it is practical, because it applies to the world you live in and your interaction with that world. We are not even going to make the distinction between the material and the spiritual because by this time that distinction is rather meaningless, but notice through your awareness how you have been strengthened or brought to a higher vibration of understanding that allows you to choose both for yourself and others more lovingly.

Also notice that even though you might not be free of fear, in all of the many forms and disguises it takes on, that it no longer has such a hold on you. It is no longer the controlling influence or definition of self that it might have had even a few months ago.

Please allow yourself this higher vibration of perception as you allow your definition of self to transform more and more deeply into the essential truth of Who You Are.,,

In love and gratitude. Amen