Sedona, and places like Sedona, are incredibly important as people are wanting inner peace, and connection to Self. Things like prayer, meditation, yoga and mindfulness are very useful. These things and many more practices help us reconnect to what is important. What is important is peace and our realization of God/Spirit. To really connect to our True Self is to realize how often we are not choosing peace. We need to work with our minds. This is what we explore on the Spiritual Vortex Tour, and Spiritual Journey Tour.
This planet is kinda crazy right now. Actually it has always been crazy. Look at our history, it’s a history of war. We’ve been told God/Spirit created this world. Really? How could an infinitely loving God create crazy?
God/Spirit IS present though, in every second of our lives, But we have to choose God/Spirit. We have a choice of which inner teacher we are listening to, our God/Spirit Self, or ego self.
As a collective we are listening to the ego-mind which is chaotic and loves suffering. The ego is fight energy, seems familiar? Look around at what we have created here with our identification with ego minded thoughts.
God doesn’t create war, homelessness and division, but the ego does. There’s no such thing as a holy war, or justification of anger, no matter how justified it seems. Fight energy is fight energy. It doesn’t mean we don’t feel the anger, but as soon as we blame others and project it outward we have joined the insanity.
When these emotions come up, it is to be looked at and released with God/Spirit. It’s just energy. The more we throw this energy around at ‘others’ the more we contribute to the collective insanity.
Yes this place is crazy! What a great reason to wake up from it. Believe in it, and you experience what the collective has created, and that is suffering.
Aren’t we tired yet? Most are not tired enough. Plus even though we’ve made a ton a progress we still can get pulled back in so effortlessly.
We all do, until we don’t.
I was inspired to write this today because I almost commented on a FB thread, but I stopped and realized that no matter what I say, no matter how benign, it would elicit rage. My opinion is only my opinion.
Even when I have the agreement of millions of people it doesn’t mean I am right. It only means I have consensus.
When we engage with our opinion we are wanting to be heard and to be right. We project our issues onto everyone else in an attempt to feel better, and get that consensus, but we don’t feel better, we just feel justified.
In A Course In Miracles, ACIM it is said, “You can be right or you can be happy, the choice is yours.”
Insisting on being right only keeps us suffering. There are times I know I am right, (in my opinion). This rightness is from the ego-mind point of view though.
Years ago I listened to a talk by a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti. He said he definitely had opinions, but he didn’t believe them anymore. At the time I thought that was interesting, why would you have opinions if you don’t believe them?
Now I understand that completely. I have opinions, but I don’t believe them. They are thoughts that arise, I get to look at them. Sometimes I even engage with them. But at the end of the day, they have nothing to do with peace.
There is this chaotic world driven by the conditioned mind, and there is peace. As ACIM would say, look at the world (and our reactions to it) from above the battlefield, with God/Spirit.
Even when we stop overtly blaming we have to watch as the ego-mind finds ways in the back door. We go from overtly blaming to subtly blaming. It’s an attempt to make us believe we are evolving, and yet keeping us in the battlefield.
This interest in the world’s chaos is addictive, I’ll grant you that! Great stories, and intrigues!
Our decision for peace can also be addictive. We just have to want it.
How do we do that? Just one-second at a time. Looking at our opinions, beliefs, judgments, just one-second at a time and looking at them from above the battlefield with God/Spirit.
Vishali is a Spiritual Mentor, and a PSYCH-K Facilitator. It would be my pleasure to work with you privately. Feel free to connect for your 20 minute free consultation to see what kind of benefits awaits you.
A Course In Waking Up to Inner Peace
Vishali Shahin B.S., R.N.
Spiritual MentorCertified Meditation Teacher
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