Dear Ones,
People are gathering. Are you noticing this? People are gathering with those who think the way they do. They are not gathering to discuss ideas and issues. They are gathering to fuel their emotions by listening to others who think as they do, with the same open-mindedness or closed-mindedness that they embrace.
But there are some who are finding their Tribes. They are finding those who also wish to uplift the World. Those who are feeling called to assist all of humanity in growing, in evolving, are looking for others who feel a mission to do the same. These are the groups who are gaining power in the World.
The media reports on the groups that are the most vocal, the most emotional. Many media outlets, especially in the Western part of the World, are fueling this emotionalism by carefully determining what they will and won’t share with their audiences, picking and choosing so-called ‘facts’ and ignoring truth. Some countries have always had government-controlled information channels but more countries are operating that way in this time.
What does this mean to you as you attempt to live a Conscious Life? Here is what we would say to you.
Be very careful about what information, images, thoughts and ideas you embrace. We are not saying you need to believe this person or that, but you must decide for yourself where your truth is in a given moment. Can you be a solid rock in a moving stream of information and mis-information? Can you at the same time be an open-minded individual who is willing to examine new information and, possibly, change your position if the information leads you to do so?
Those who hold fast to ideas that may have been true for them in the past, even when current evidence indicates that those ideas are no longer valid, are the people who are refusing to evolve and to grow. The others, however, who continue to explore new ideas, may or may not change their beliefs as a result of that exploration but they are open to the possibility. The latter are the ones who carry humanity forward to expanded awareness and evolved consciousness.
Let us look at what this means in your daily life. If you are someone who has a difficult time letting go of old patterns and beliefs, do you limit your contacts to those who will support your non-growth? Are you still socializing with people who behave the way you did in high school even though their behavior often embarrasses you? Are you staying in relationships that do not help you to grow because they are familiar, even if not comfortable? Do you shut down when someone around you expresses an opinion that does not agree with yours? And, when that happens, do you make the discussion a personal attack rather than a discussion of ideas, impersonally evaluated?
None of these choices supports you in your personal journey toward fulfillment in your life. Why choose to stay ‘stuck’ when you have the option to grow into more Light?
The path of personal growth demands that each individual continually seek enlightenment, that is, a growing Light within that reflects expansion of consciousness. Everything that happens is an opportunity to learn something that can expand your Inner Light. Are you willing to seek that? Are you willing to examine the ideas you hold, consciously or unconsciously, and determine if they are appropriate for you today? Are you willing to grow rather than to stagnate?
You are always at a point of choice in your Life. You can choose to continue to believe what you have always believed or you can change those beliefs. You can choose to hold the same thoughts about yourself or you can change the thoughts you embrace. And you can choose to look around you for the lessons in the present moment or you can shut down and move sightlessly through your moments. The choice is always yours.
We hope you will choose to look for the Light in every situation, to look for the path of growth, and to be willing to expand your awareness to examine new ideas, new thoughts, new beliefs and to embrace the new beliefs if they resonate with your own Inner Light.
And so it is.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: What is your unconscious mind deciding for you?
August 31, 2010 — RosemaryIt seems as if we’re always being told to examine our thoughts, our beliefs. That’s not as easy as it sounds.
I’ve worked with people who are literally shocked to discover some of the things that they believe. Our unconscious minds are powerful helpers in our journey of personal growth, but with that power comes an ability to derail our best efforts, the decisions we make consciously but without the agreement of our unconscious minds.
Does this sound difficult to believe? Let’s look at how powerful that unconscious mind can be.
You can breathe without thinking about it, right? You don’t go around telling your heart to ‘Beat Now, and Now, and Now,’ do you? Somewhere in your system is a controller taking care of all those systems so you don’t have to make a conscious decision to get your heart to beat or your lungs to expand. So why shouldn’t that ‘controller’ be making other decisions for you? Like how you will respond to a stimulus that is similar to what you experienced when you were 5 or 7 years old? What about that knee-jerk reaction you had? Did you consciously choose that or did it come from somewhere else?
Prejudice comes from training in our youth. In the show, ‘South Pacific,’ they say that you must be carefully taught to hate. But once those seeds of hatred are planted, you might not even know that you believe that someone ‘should be hated.’ Or what about those family stories that plant a seed about who you are supposed to be? ‘Our family always does…….’ [fill in the blank]. There can be some powerful beliefs ingrained in us as children that we don’t even recognize are at work.
And so, as adults, we go along thinking that we are in charge when the truth is that our unconscious minds are holding onto beliefs and thoughts about ourselves and the world that might not be valid anymore. The bogeyman under the bed might not actually be there but the little child within might still be afraid of a strange situation.
How do we use this information in our adult lives? The first place to start is to examine what we believe. In every situation, the question to ask is, ‘Is what I believe about this situation true?’ When we are responding to a particular stimulus, we can ask ourselves if the response is appropriate in this moment or is our unconscious mind adding on some data from previous experiences that might not apply right now. This ability to ask questions of ourselves is the first step to living a conscious life.
And we must question what comes at us and to us from outside sources. If you are told something that doesn’t feel right, pause and ask yourself what it is exactly that you are feeling. What, within yourself, is not resonating with this information? Or what IS resonating with this information, and can you believe something new or contrary to what you believed before?
These questions only help us if we have already started to examine ourselves. Being on a path of personal growth invites us to become aware in every moment of our own thoughts and beliefs. For some, this might require help at first, especially in clearing away blocks held in the unconscious mind and difficult to unearth for examination. The good news is that the more you practice examining your thoughts and beliefs the easier it is to continue. It rapidly becomes a way of life as your understanding deepens of the intricate relationship of your conscious and unconscious minds.
Personal growth is the path to bringing more Light into your life. Embrace the journey. Do the work. Examine what you believe, both consciously and unconsciously, and grow.
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