Clearing the clutter - BIG TIME!
Hello,
I was just inspired to watch this video: Our DNA is always changing ~ Abraham Hicks.
It made me think about how non-physical is so stable because it instantly becomes what is wanted.
Think about it, if you instantly went to your desires, you'd be stable too. However it is our wanting (as the leading edge of all that is) to be in a physical world of contrast and to explore that contrast to create new desires.
Having said that, we're not here to suffer it out. By just being here, by being alive and physical, we are exploring contrast. With this is mind, I think to myself that I should be taking it a lot easier.
A few years back I decided that I'd had enough of many physical items I had been keeping hold of for a long time. I mercilessly got rid of most of what I owned (which wasn't a vast amount anyway). This process made me feel a lot lighter. A few years on and I have again accumulated quite a few items (for me, at least). I tend to keep things that I think will come in handy. Sure some of these items do have practical uses, yet I do not use them often at all. For example I have a lot of items that I use to do a hobby of mine, however I have not participated in that hobby for some time, but I justify keeping these items because "one day I'll want to do that hobby again, so I'll need that stuff". That all seems fine, yet the fact that these things are laying around and getting in the way is doing my head in. But how could I simply throw out all of this stuff, it's worth money. So what, nothing is more valuable that your own happiness. When I think about having all of that stuff gone, I feel so much lighter and happier.
Ok, fine, so you throw all of those physical trappings away, and you're left with your good self, happy and content. Then one day you feel like participating in that hobby, but dang you threw all of the things away. Now what? Well think about it, that question only comes from a place of scarcity in the first place. You're only asking yourself that before you've actually done the deed of living without physical trappings. You see once you've cleared the clutter, you'll be living more of an emotional life than anything, and when you are feeling good more of the time, then inspirations will come and pathways will show up that will fulfill all of your desires around a subject. For example you'll be inspired to participate in your hobby when perhaps you're already around someone who has the necessary tools, etc. Basically it'll unfold easily. I've noticed that when I try to force inspiration (because 'things' are around me, so I should use them some time I guess!), it never works out anyway. It becomes like hard work and doesn't come from a place of true inspiration. It's confusing to the mind because at one time that hobby was once participated in from a place of joy and inspiration, and our mind holds onto that distant memory instead of seeing the reality of what our emotional guidance system is telling us now!
True Inspiration:
Imagine living from a place of true inspiration. Imagine that. Imagine having a clean slate and being open to what the Universe delivers. To be open minded and in the allowing state. To be guided by our emotional guidance system and following the inspiration we receive, rather than by the habitual patterns of our physical trappings.
To do this requires constant resolve. As I said at the start of this post, I've 'cleared the clutter' before, but let it come back in and affect me for longer than I'd like to think about. It comes down to a question:
Would you rather be attached to things, or to your emotional guidance system?
That question does not mean that you should disregard the physical experience, of course not. For sure become engrossed in any physical activity you've been inspired to, but see it for what it is, an experience.
A good trick is to think of every experience as a 'one off' experience. Don't try to replicate it or even talk about it that much in the sense of "that thing made me happy". Instead realise that you were attached to your emotional guidance system and that you went with the inspiration born out of consistently 'feeling' good.
When we ask our physical brain to work out what to do next, we won't get the same results as non-physical, which is what we really want. If we insist on working everything out for ourselves, a part of our brain finds patterns because it is trying to work out and plan what works purely based on physical experience that has already occurred, whereas non-physical is stable because it knows what works because it is already living it in real time. What the next inspiration will be may have nothing to do with anything you've done in the past.
I'm sure you've had those days where you've had the most fun time but you don't really know how it came to be. You hadn't 'planned' that day, because physically your brain could not have planned it. You must have followed your true inspiration which led you to a joyous experience.
When these days happen to me, I'll often say to myself "damn what a wonderful day, I'll have to make the effort to remember what I was doing on this day because I had an awesome time and want more like them".
Inevitably though I don't find the effort and 'lazily' let it go, and count it as a 'one off'. This though, is a good thing. In fact it's exactly the 'one off' attitude I spoke of earlier. Why then do we put up with going back to our old cluttered patterns. I think it's because we have physical momentos to remind us. One of those 'one off' experiences may not have ended up with bringing home a physical reminder of that experience. Some however do, and over time we start to collect those momentos and identify ourselves with them. When people judge us or think they know us, and we get angry because we're in disagreement, we're not angry because of what they think, we're angry because we have aligned our physical selves in a position that is out of alignment with our true selves, and that's the discord we're feeling.
I want you to end that. I want you to identify yourself as primarily, first and foremost, an emotional being.
It's time to align with who we really are!
Thanks!
I was just inspired to watch this video: Our DNA is always changing ~ Abraham Hicks.
It made me think about how non-physical is so stable because it instantly becomes what is wanted.
Think about it, if you instantly went to your desires, you'd be stable too. However it is our wanting (as the leading edge of all that is) to be in a physical world of contrast and to explore that contrast to create new desires.
Having said that, we're not here to suffer it out. By just being here, by being alive and physical, we are exploring contrast. With this is mind, I think to myself that I should be taking it a lot easier.
A few years back I decided that I'd had enough of many physical items I had been keeping hold of for a long time. I mercilessly got rid of most of what I owned (which wasn't a vast amount anyway). This process made me feel a lot lighter. A few years on and I have again accumulated quite a few items (for me, at least). I tend to keep things that I think will come in handy. Sure some of these items do have practical uses, yet I do not use them often at all. For example I have a lot of items that I use to do a hobby of mine, however I have not participated in that hobby for some time, but I justify keeping these items because "one day I'll want to do that hobby again, so I'll need that stuff". That all seems fine, yet the fact that these things are laying around and getting in the way is doing my head in. But how could I simply throw out all of this stuff, it's worth money. So what, nothing is more valuable that your own happiness. When I think about having all of that stuff gone, I feel so much lighter and happier.
Ok, fine, so you throw all of those physical trappings away, and you're left with your good self, happy and content. Then one day you feel like participating in that hobby, but dang you threw all of the things away. Now what? Well think about it, that question only comes from a place of scarcity in the first place. You're only asking yourself that before you've actually done the deed of living without physical trappings. You see once you've cleared the clutter, you'll be living more of an emotional life than anything, and when you are feeling good more of the time, then inspirations will come and pathways will show up that will fulfill all of your desires around a subject. For example you'll be inspired to participate in your hobby when perhaps you're already around someone who has the necessary tools, etc. Basically it'll unfold easily. I've noticed that when I try to force inspiration (because 'things' are around me, so I should use them some time I guess!), it never works out anyway. It becomes like hard work and doesn't come from a place of true inspiration. It's confusing to the mind because at one time that hobby was once participated in from a place of joy and inspiration, and our mind holds onto that distant memory instead of seeing the reality of what our emotional guidance system is telling us now!
True Inspiration:
Imagine living from a place of true inspiration. Imagine that. Imagine having a clean slate and being open to what the Universe delivers. To be open minded and in the allowing state. To be guided by our emotional guidance system and following the inspiration we receive, rather than by the habitual patterns of our physical trappings.
To do this requires constant resolve. As I said at the start of this post, I've 'cleared the clutter' before, but let it come back in and affect me for longer than I'd like to think about. It comes down to a question:
Would you rather be attached to things, or to your emotional guidance system?
That question does not mean that you should disregard the physical experience, of course not. For sure become engrossed in any physical activity you've been inspired to, but see it for what it is, an experience.
A good trick is to think of every experience as a 'one off' experience. Don't try to replicate it or even talk about it that much in the sense of "that thing made me happy". Instead realise that you were attached to your emotional guidance system and that you went with the inspiration born out of consistently 'feeling' good.
When we ask our physical brain to work out what to do next, we won't get the same results as non-physical, which is what we really want. If we insist on working everything out for ourselves, a part of our brain finds patterns because it is trying to work out and plan what works purely based on physical experience that has already occurred, whereas non-physical is stable because it knows what works because it is already living it in real time. What the next inspiration will be may have nothing to do with anything you've done in the past.
I'm sure you've had those days where you've had the most fun time but you don't really know how it came to be. You hadn't 'planned' that day, because physically your brain could not have planned it. You must have followed your true inspiration which led you to a joyous experience.
When these days happen to me, I'll often say to myself "damn what a wonderful day, I'll have to make the effort to remember what I was doing on this day because I had an awesome time and want more like them".
Inevitably though I don't find the effort and 'lazily' let it go, and count it as a 'one off'. This though, is a good thing. In fact it's exactly the 'one off' attitude I spoke of earlier. Why then do we put up with going back to our old cluttered patterns. I think it's because we have physical momentos to remind us. One of those 'one off' experiences may not have ended up with bringing home a physical reminder of that experience. Some however do, and over time we start to collect those momentos and identify ourselves with them. When people judge us or think they know us, and we get angry because we're in disagreement, we're not angry because of what they think, we're angry because we have aligned our physical selves in a position that is out of alignment with our true selves, and that's the discord we're feeling.
I want you to end that. I want you to identify yourself as primarily, first and foremost, an emotional being.
It's time to align with who we really are!
Thanks!
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