If I'm really going to go for healing and enlightenment, if I'm going to go for this lasting healing,
not some kind of band-aid approach
not some kind of affirmations that
are here today and gone forgotten tomorrow. But if I am really gonna go for the healing
I have to be willing to look. I do have to look within.
And so I don't like to sugarcoat things. I mean,
we show these movies. We
have all kinds of tools and
exercises, all kinds of sessions.
There is just a huge array of things.
Where there are just tools, symbols, and devices
that we have found are helpful.
My thing has been that whenever I have found that is helpful
in my healing process
I want to share it with all my brothers and sisters. I feel like that is a way of saving time.
And so we need to open up more to this
thing like we're all in this together. We're here to clear
this immense guilt, this ontological guilt
that is underneath the
lower, the subconscious mind. We have to have allowance for it to come up.
And I would say experientially
it's the same with healing. That is why we have to learn to, "I will step back and let Him lead the way."
We have to let the Holy Spirit unwind us and take us on this journey through
this guilt to the light. The focus is
always on staying open and receptive to the Spirit because
the ego doesn't know the way.
The ego made the guilt. It is not going to offer any
helpful solutions for healing, it doesn't want there to be healing.
It wants the guilt to stay in place. We
have gone through experiences with relationships that
for most of us were gut-wrenching at times. And they
were so gut-wrenching that there is part of our minds that said, "Never again."
"Oh man, I am never going to go through that again."
And then the mind closes down a little bit
it starts to put barriers up
and it starts losing hope in a solution
and then it is starts getting more cynical
you know, how it goes down
a pathway of being more cynical. And what that means is it just shuts down. It
closes down because it thinks it knows something.
It thinks: I have collected enough evidence
from these years on Earth to conclude
that the world is this way.
What happens when the mind shuts down like that and
can not feel
and cannot feel love anymore.
I have concluded something cynical.
I know I have been overwhelmed.
I know that these emotions are like sharp
glass, like sharp pointy glass.
They are so prickly. They are so intense.
And of course it seems overwhelming
you know, it is almost like we came to planet Earth
and nobody gave us an owner's manual.
You get an owner's manual for everything in this planet, but not for your life.
Nobody tells you how your mind works.
Nobody tells you where the emotions come from
Nobody delineates what your goals should be.
Nobody tells you how to discipline your mind and
to train your mind to align with Spirit.
Nobody does that. It is almost like you got to find it out
on your own, and it is a dark journey.
It is like some of these real dark movies.
You feel like you are walking in the dark. And you don't have a light
and you stumble and you trip and you fall down
and you fall into pits
and snares and you get trapped and
that is the human condition. But actually just
you raising the question just
you exposing, "This is how I feel,"
that is the first step in the turnaround.
If we don't have permission to talk about
how scared we are; if we don't have permission to talk about how overwhelmed we are
or paralyzed we seem, how are we going to
learn to take other steps? We have to know that
it is safe to do that even. That is part
of the healing process. And then I think
also you start to feel that you have support
that that is the most important thing. That you are not in this alone.