Doubt
Month: December 2018
Feelings of Belief
- by George
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When we were born we came in with zero beliefs. We had no way to believe anything because we couldn't cognize language. What we came in with are Feelings. Feelings need no language to interpret, no concepts to cognize. It's like this...
It's a warm Summer evening. It could be at a shoreline or near the top of a mountain. The Sun is setting and the Sunset is too beautiful for words. The colors are striking and strong Feelings begin welling up inside. To top it off you are with someone you care about. The glow of the Sunset casts a warm light and as you look at the other person, Feelings of love and caring are stirred.
Now attempt to describe verbally how you Feel.
It's impossible. Even the word Love isn't strong enough to describe the Feelings swirling inside.
But Beliefs. We have no problem expressing our Beliefs because Beliefs are limiting. They box us into a system, a regimen to follow. Most often the Beliefs we fight for are the Beliefs of others instilled from the days we were able to begin understanding language. Often our Beliefs aren't even our own, placed there to fulfill an agenda of another for various reasons which we need not go into now.
The current times have us pushed to make a choice in our lives. We could stay totally within the Belief system we have been carrying around since we were toddlers or begin opening to the Feelings bubbling to the surface, repressed since adopting the Beliefs of others so long ago. It isn't easy to abandon Beliefs but when Feelings are prompting us to begin to reexamine our Beliefs, it may be time to retreat to a safe space to open to what you truly know to be a new way of BEing, using Feelings for guidance as opposed to Beliefs for action.
This idea just Feels correct.
Conditioning
- by George
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If we step forward, we're wrong. If we step backward, we're wrong. Typical conditioning creates Stagnation.
Our personal Feelings have been pushed aside by other's Belief systems in attempts to hold us, keep us under Control for their agendas.
That brings us again to ask the question, "Who do our Beliefs belong to"?
This is a contributing factor to why there has been so much dis-ease these last number of decades. A small group is continually pushing their Beliefs onto others in attempts to freeze Humanity in place as their resource to gain and maintain Power and Control.
This is a factor why Millennials are under constant criticism. That group, just as the Baby Boomer group, has seen through the illusion cast by those wishing to retain Control over the people. But in the case of the Millennial group, they are actually rebelling against the System. That’s where the Baby Boomers began but fell under the spell of the Controllers for an illusory 'easier life'. Many Baby Boomers sold out where the Millennials are staying the course. That fact alone is why they are under the constant criticism from Boomers because Boomers know they sold out, took the chicken-shit route and so they become angry that Millennials are actually walking the walk. Boomers will argue how lazy the Millennials appear forgetting how many Boomers are exactly the same way. More fuel for the angry fire.
Conditioning is insidious and the only way to discover how deep it goes is to withdraw to a quiet place and actually travel down the rabbit hole of discovery. But Conditioning has us believing we are Human DOings as opposed to what we truly know, that we are Human BEings who have been ordered never descend town that scary, dark hole. Conditioned by fear we remain on the rim knowing the answers we seek can be found down there but descending into that darkness of discovery carries with it ridicule from others. Conditioning has us believing we actually need approval from others to advance to a better place. We don't. But we also wish to fit in with those around us. But consider this...
Look through history. How many Change Agents were persecuted as they stepped away from the Conditioning they were ordered to accept as their own? What excellent changes did they introduce to Humanity that continues to bring us out of the Dark Ages even today?
Their Conditioning does not belong to you. Through Divine Free Will you have permission to throw their Conditioning aside to once again begin connecting with the personal Feelings you were born with. You will be ridiculed but also secretly admired. You will be a Change Agent just by your actions. It will spread like a liquid spill on a table. You can witness this concept occurring at this current time. You have permission today to seek the Freedom you desire. It's just one small step to a whole new life...
Playing Tennis on a Cliff
- by George
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Ever since I can remember I would experience either myself or others arguing about some subject or another. No one wants to be wrong so we argue or debate sometimes about the littlest things. Far too often tempers flare and arguments escalate out of control. We experience it in families, business and just about any place Humans gather.
Personally I have been sucked into that vortex of drama and would dig in my heels and participate. My 'opponent’ would do the same and the majority of the time it would result in a stalemate or angry feelings. Not a good place to be but being right is often paramount – or so it appears.
I so believed I had found a better way or a faster way or a cheaper way and wanted so much for others to adopt the same mindset that brought me an 'easier life’. In my eagerness to help I would do the exact opposite and create more issues than before the debate began. But after years of these stalemate outcomes it finally hit me. If I were able to allow others their own space without throwing fuel on the fire, the debate would wind down with no hard feelings. It’s like this…
If I throw a ball at a wall it will strike the wall, bounce and return back to me. I could again throw the ball to have it return again and again until I decide to stop. Until I decide to stop. That was the answer to defusing the vortex of drama I had been searching for. It would be like playing tennis on a cliff. I would serve the ball only to have it shoot off into the air with nothing for it to bounce off of. Game over, drama defused.
So I began using this new found concept in my daily life. At first I would begin engaging in the drama vortex but it wasn’t long before I caught myself and stopped serving the ball. Then I would remain quiet when being pelted with what I felt was nonsense, not returning their serve. I must admit, there were times they would have something that made sense mixed in their statements and I would learn something I hadn’t known before. I found that allowing others to be heard was all they wanted from me. I had always felt as if I had to help people but then found it better to remain silent until they asked for assistance. That was a difficult lesson to swallow as I observed them in struggles I believed I had an answer for. And I don’t know, maybe they felt the same about what they had to offer too. But since there are over seven billion truths on this Planet currently, everyone has their own way of BEing.
I am being prompted daily to remember to play tennis on a cliff. I admit I still don’t have that concept down 100% but the time it takes for me to realize to disengage from the vortex of drama is coming quicker every day. It won’t be long before another part of inner peace arrives and I’ll be free of the need to interfere outside myself, allowing others to ask for help instead of me arriving like the knight in shining armor ready to do battle with some etheric foe.
The armor has grown heavy. I’m nearly ready to store it away as a reminder of once was not to be used again. With a little more effort that day will arrive soon.