New ideas float around all the time. Sometimes it’s fun to follow a new idea to see where it leads. And sometimes the new idea challenges us to explore those values that we have clung to for a long time, believing that they represented the truth. What do you do when you encounter a new idea?
Our habitual patterns dictate how we react when we encounter something new. In the animal kingdom there is often a wariness of something new being introduced into the environment. Have you ever watched a cat when a bug walks across its path. It sniffs, it bats at it, it might pick up the bug in its mouth and carry it around for awhile. The cat is playing with this ‘thing’ as it figures out what it is and what to do with it.
So often we do not allow ourselves to ‘play’ with an idea, to ponder it for awhile and let it unfold and display itself fully to us. Have you ever rejected something new as a knee-jerk reaction before you’ve fully explored it? We have probably all done that once or twice! But what if we decide that we will not reject new ideas out of hand when they are presented to us? What if we decide today to give ourselves a chance to stay with an idea, to play with it as the cat plays with the bug, to explore or to ponder that idea until we have learned what we can about and from that idea? We might even go so far as to decide that the idea has merit and we wish to adopt that idea as being true for us at this time.
When we force ourselves to cling to old thought, old ideas because they are comfortable to us we narrow our vision of the world until we cannot see expansively into the realm of ‘the greater’ – that which is beyond our little truth and exists in the cosmos as a reality of greater proportion than our own limited perspective. What would we believe if all humans of the past several centuries had done this? We would not have our understanding of the heavens if Galileo and Copernicus and Kepler had not worked with new ideas to advance our ability to learn about the cosmos and we would not have the Hubble Space Telescope sharing new information about our origins. If Einstein had not developed his theory of relativity, or Newton his ideas, or any number of other scientists had decided not to explore down avenues that had no known conclusion, we would all be living a very different life.
And it is not just the scientists who advance thought. The philosophers do it, too. What if the philosophers throughout time had not pondered the bigger questions for us? What would we believe today?
You might think that you are not a scientist or a philosopher, but you are. You are a human living in 21st Century Earth and you are therefore a co-creator of your reality. Your thoughts are things and become reality. Why would you choose to think the thoughts of days gone by simply because they are familiar and comfortable? Are you not curious about where new ideas might lead you? Do you have a desire to be a creative force in your own life?
Then allow yourself to ponder great questions. Read up on new thought and decide for yourself what you accept and what you question. Pursue that which you are interested in exploring further. Encourage those around you, especially the children, to be curious explorers of ideas. Challenge them to dig more deeply into an idea that intrigues them. Support your friends and family when they come up with something that is new to you. Foster the concept of research. Allow human consciousness to expand.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Personal Growth and New Ideas
May 16, 2012 — RosemaryIf our thoughts come from ideas, then we really do need to be careful about the ideas that we embrace, don’t we?
In working with private clients over two decades I have seen that the limiting beliefs people carry with them stem from some idea that they embraced as immutable truth, usually when they were a child. This is not to criticize the parents, for they were doing the best they could, and often they had no idea that the child was embracing what the child thought was immutable truth but which the parent was able to contextualize differently.
How many of our current thoughts rise up from some idea our 5- or 6-year-old inner child embraced as Truth with a capital ‘T’? This is the work of personal growth, to ferret out those ideas, embraced without examination, that form the basis for many of our current thoughts, especially those that are holding us back from accessing our own inner greatness and from sharing that with the world.
I believe that each of us has an Inner Splendor, a brilliant Light that is ready to shine forth into the world when we access, appreciate and allow it to shine. When we shine this Light through our Soul Purpose in Life we invite others to join us on the Path of Light. This is the beauty of accessing our Inner Splendor and shining that Light.
But what blocks most people are the thoughts that limit them from their own greatness, the thoughts that, when the original idea from which they stem is identified, can be examined and eliminated or embraced depending on whether or not they serve the individual at this time. This is the real work of personal growth.
Are you on a path of examining your thoughts for their origins? Do you continually examine situations in your life for whether or not they stem from beliefs that come from somewhere or someone else, not your Inner Splendor?
The 21st Century has its own transformative energy [especially emphatic as it was ushered in in 2012] and invites us to examine every aspect of our lives so that we can grow in Consciousness and expand our awareness of the workings of the World.
Personal growth is not just about the person. Personal growth is the work we do as individuals that moves us forward on our path so that we might manifest that Inner Splendor as we agreed we would do when we took on this lifetime. Each of us has a Soul Purpose to realize and express. We have a Mission to accomplish on Planet Earth. And all of this depends upon our doing our personal growth work to create clear channels of the energy of Light that shines through us.
Commit yourself to doing your personal growth work. It’s never ‘done.’ I have been actively engaged for a very long time and I am still surprised at things that come up for me to examine and change. I still find things that lurk inside with their insidious influence. It feels so good to release them!
And when I work with clients it is a joy to get the feedback of the freedom they experience when they release their limiting beliefs, the thoughts that no longer serve them!
Do your personal growth work, whatever form that takes for you today. Release the thoughts that depend on your holding onto beliefs that do not serve you. Reach into that higher frequency level of the Light of Consciousness for some new ideas to examine.
You’ll be glad you did!
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