Dear Ones,
Ever since humans have been walking on Planet Earth they have been questioning the reasons for happenings around them. You might believe that early humans were not curious but how do you think decisions were made about what to eat and what not to eat? They came out of curiosity and someone tried to eat something. They lived or they died, and the others learned what was safe and what was not.
Humans have a similar kind of curiosity today but the situations are more subtle than when they were looking for food. Today, people are searching for simple solutions to complex problems, and so they look to someone else to tell them what is safe and what isn’t, what works and what doesn’t, and what is true and what isn’t. People are giving away their power to the external source who tells them what they want to believe. Unfortunately, many of those who are speaking out have not done the research themselves, as the early humans did. These speakers are believing something told to them by someone else who supposedly did ‘research.’ This so-called ‘research’ might or might not have been valid or worthwhile but for every bit of research there is some audience who wants to believe the results and so in that sphere it becomes validated by acceptance and repetition.
Do you see how far removed people are becoming from the source of the information available to them about ‘safe or unsafe,’ ‘works or doesn’t work,’ ‘true or not’? Decide today that you will become a person who seeks the source. Don’t believe or accept on blind faith. Check inside yourself for your own truth. Just because someone says it is so does not make it valid for you at this time. Even what we are telling you should be checked against your internal compass to make sure it is congruent with the direction in which your journey is taking you today.
In all things it is important that you learn to go inside and reach for your Inner Guidance. You KNOW what is true for you, even if you feel you cannot be certain. There is always a part of you that knows for sure. Reach for that part. Seek help if you do not know how to do this. Get in touch with guidance for yourself, for there is a wealth of information available to you if you seek it. Great thinkers throughout time have known this and have used their innate abilities to find answers to their questions. They seek answers but look to themselves, their own research, even their dreams to find what they seek. Many geniuses will tell you that it is in rest and relaxing out of the search that great ideas arise. Why should you be different?
Are you one of those who think you have to be active all the time? Do you feel you must be doing, doing, doing in order to move forward? What if you could make more forward progress by resting, thinking about something else, engaging in a hobby, and then returning to problem-solving with fresh eyes? Perhaps napping and allowing your unconscious mind to connect the dots for you would be more productive. Maybe a meditation exercise would free your creativity so that you could return to your task with greater understanding.
These are suggestions for 21st Century humans to approach problem-solving and answer-seeking. The early humans knew what they were about when they made their own observations. Stop giving away your power as a thinking, creative person and do your own research, find your own answers. Listen to others but do not be swayed to act against what feels true for you. Do not believe just because others believe. Be an individual, for you were brought to Planet Earth for an individual purpose. No one else has the same roadmap. Be careful about who you allow to drive your life!
And so it is.



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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