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After a long winter, a hibernation of sorts, I have finally found the motivation and inspiration to return to writing. Sometimes in life we encounter energies that move through us in ways that are hard to understand on our own, much less verbalize outwardly. These energies can form blocks in us that seemingly prevent us from moving forward in our goals and dreams, holding us in a pattern of thought or feeling that is frustrating to say the least. Why is this I ask? Why does our own mind try and prevent us from moving forward to our highest expression?
Part of the answer to these questions can be found in events that are taking place all over the world right now. From the several major earthquakes that have rocked the world recently, to the wild weather patterns that are way out of the scope of “normal”, as well as the growing global fear of “end times”. What I see in all this is the purging of collective and individual unconscious beliefs and fears that hold us all as prisoners in the mind itself. Something that we all share, but shows up in our individual lives through many expressions.
As I have watched the events of the past few months take place, donated money, read blogs, commented on many, and taken in the energy, I noticed that the more I focused on the pain of the world, the more my mind wildly imagined numerous scenarios and fears of what is to come. Paralyzing to any creative endeavors, I simply allowed myself to sit in it. I used what I’ve learned and taught so many others; to sit and observe the inner workings of belief played out across the screen of the mind without becoming attached to any particular point. As I sat and paced and wondered all while still working and doing the normal family day to day stuff, I began to notice how gripping the beliefs that have worked until this point are within the mind. This is a time of great change, and anytime we are asked to change, our personal comfort levels are challenged. When our comfort levels are challenged, our mind simply gets out the rule book, our beliefs, and compares the rules to the new situation. This can be debilitating, especially when we are not conscious of how to allow the energy to flow through us without becoming attached.
So why would our minds try and hold us from reaching our highest potential? One simple word is the reason; belief. Beliefs on a personal level originate in how we were raised and what we were taught to believe as rules for living. Beliefs on a societal level, for the most part, originated before any of us that are alive today were born. Our beliefs, regardless of their origin, are the program to which our computer like minds view, judge and react to the world outside us. Now and in the past several months, you may have experienced and overwhelming dose of the beliefs you have used to navigate life thus far, simply don’t make sense anymore. We are in the times the Mayans, Egyptians and other ancient cultures spoke of as the great awakening. The beliefs, fears, pain and suffering we have experienced individually and collectively throughout time are now being shaken free in an earthquake of the soul, so to speak. As this takes place all across the globe in the lives of everyone, a great cleansing of collective negative energy and belief is moving out of us. Just as the earth shook Chile to release tension between two plates, the old way of believing and living is rubbing against a new way, shaking us from the core, breaking the crust of belief in the mind and making way for new ground to come forth.
The journey through this and times ahead will shake us even further, awakening us to our unconscious actions as individuals and as a whole, and challenging us to live fully, consciously, wholly united as one with our spirit, each other, the earth and all of creation. How we nurture ourselves, our neighbors, and the earth are being cleansed. This is a great time to be alive; an opportunity to change the course of history, so that it no longer repeats itself.
Read my article about the Mayan calendar and 2012 here: Spiritual Awakening - 2012 and theories of change
I can be reached through my website; www.samuelstrickland.com
To learn more about beliefs and the mind from a scientific/spiritual view; check out author Gregg Braden’s book The Divine Matrix
For an easier read on beliefs and the mind; check out author Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret
What do you think of the times we are in?
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