***STEP ONE***
“We admitted that we had unconsciously created a self defeating belief system which has limited our ability to consciously create a life we desire”
We are born into this world to create. Every singe one of us is endowed with this most natural inclination. Our creative nature is always alive and at work from our very first breath right up to our last. As instruments of creation, we can either transmit love or project fear. Creation in and of itself is beyond the man made realms of GOOD and BAD. This creative ability that we all possess can either be constructive or destructive.
Creation, we have learned through our own experience, finds its mode of expression along either CONSCIOUS or UNCONSCIOUS lines.
Consciously, creativity can be harnessed into a powerful instrument for our being to affect cause of a positive and inspired nature. Unconsciously, it can become a powerfully destructive waste of life force expression. Creativity, just like knowledge, becomes life affirming or self defeating through its application.
Our own being, comprised of the fundamental principles and laws that govern the working of our physical universe, is CONSCIOUSNESS. It is a logical extension of the creative consciousness responsible for the organic genius of all life. Mother nature herself is a reflection of this conscious creative power at work.
The organic genius of man originates in this infinite creative consciousness embodied in our being. Having bodies, we as humans have been afforded a wonderful instrument to express this conscious creative power of the universe in an individualized and subjective manor. Our subjective experience as a logical extension of this infinite creative consciousness can only be realized if we are consciously connected to its power ourselves.
Our instinctual mind, which is governed by our bodies senses, is part of natures design. This component of our whole being helps us, as human beings, protect and sustain our own subjective extension of infinite creative consciousness as it moves through life in physical form. In other words, we have a body, which we liken to a vehicle which transports our being and its conscious creative intelligence through life on earth. Living life on earth, inside a body governed by senses and protected by instincts can become something far removed from its intended design.
When in balance, we are consciously connected to our being within. In this conscious state our being can utilize our individual vehicle as a loving and powerful instrument of creative expression. In this balanced and consciously connected state we have the awareness and ability to meet our most fundamental needs for love, intimacy and creative expression.
On occasion, as we move through life in our vehicle (BODY), we may encounter some sort of threat in the MOMENT which requires our instinct mind to become activated to protect our body from danger. If a car was about to run over our child or our house was on fire and we had to get that very same child and our selves to safety then our instinct mind would activate and do whatever it had to do to get our vehicle, as well as the vehicle of those we love to safely, thus preserving our physical life.
Once out of immediate and real danger our instinct mind would subside back into its supporting role and our conscious connection to our being would be re-established. We would then move forward on our journey through life fulfilling our intended purpose as conscious instruments of creative expression. This process describes the natural function and intended relationship between our instinct mind and being.
In those moments of real and immediate danger when our instinctual mind becomes activated we become in fact unconscious. Just like a zebra that runs for its life as a lion chases close behind thinks of nothing else but protecting its body from certain death, we too think of nothing else but our own survival.
When the instinct mind becomes activated it actually overrides our emotional and rational mind. In our present design, we do not have any control over this function. Once we are in instinct mode we are not rational. The fear pumps adrenaline through our mind and we fight or flee from the danger just like the zebra described above. These traumatic moments of instinctual activation and reaction to danger take priority over our primary purpose as loving instruments of conscious creative expression. The reason for this is obvious, If the vehicle is destroyed then there will be no further opportunities for life force to be creatively expressed through it. It must sustain its physical life before it can facilitate its ideal and intended purpose.
Obviously we are not zebras on the plains of Africa that are always a misstep away from certain death. Most of us do not fight for our lives. We do not even hunt for our food or build our own shelter as the harsh elements of winter loom over our heads.
We, at this phase of our organic evolution have become tamed.
We have become consciously connected to the laws or principles of infinite intelligence embodied in our being and have satisfied our primary instinctual needs. Through our conscious connection to creative intelligence we have been able to organize our knowledge to the extent necessary to realize power sufficient to sustain our vehicles individually and collectively. We have afforded ourselves the opportunity to be of optimal use as conscious and loving instruments of creative expression. If this is the case, then why do we feel so dis empowered? Why do we still drive ourselves through life reacting to the most silly situations as if they were a matter of life or death?
Why do we sabotage intimacy and love as it they were evil demons to be avoided at all cost? Why do we unconsciously create stories about ourselves and those around us which limit our beings ability to express its love and truth through us? Why do these stories that we feed our selves have powerful emotional attachments to self defeating beliefs that we create about ourselves, our ability, others and life? Why are we not even conscious of these beliefs that place destructive and negative conditions on our ability to carry out our intended purpose here on earth?
If we are in no immediate danger then why do so many of us remain unconscious? Why do we unconsciously recreate sad and painful situations for ourselves and then blame these unconscious creations on other unconscious people or worse yet, the reality we all support and protect with our unconscious minds.
There is a logical explanation for this most peculiar position we now find ourselves in. This involves a lethal mixture of imagination, suggestion and trauma. We have imagination which is the most vital and precious tool used by the creative consciousness of our being to express itself through us as its instrument.
The faculty of IMAGINATION that we all possess is not embodied within the fundamental principles of our being. Imagination is a TOOL that our being utilizes to bring its creative manifestations to life. We have imagination which can take in all that our senses perceive and blend and combine this sensory stimuli into useful and beautiful expressions of life force expression. In order to do this our imagination must work in harmony with our being.
Our being can structure and organize this sensory stimuli exactly like it gives the very same structure and organization to knowledge. Once knowledge becomes organized it can be harnessed to yield real power and affect cause of the highest order. Our being organizes the images of our imagination in the same manor that affords us an opportunity to create equally powerful creative manifestations in the physical realm.
When we organize both knowledge and imagination together we become as close to the infinite creative consciousness as possible in human form.
When we as individuals are not consciously connected to our being but rather unconsciously controlled by our instinctual mind then we will use our faculty of imagination to create fear driven distortions and projections. A MIND IN FEAR IS STILL CREATIVE. A mind in fear still has the use of imagination. Any horror movie ever made is an example of imagination being harnessed by our instinctual mind rather than our conscious rational mind. Just like those scenes we see on the big screen will illustrate, a PERCEIVED threat of immediate danger will activate our instinct mind just as effectively as a REAL threat. Remember this last statement because this is the exact mode in which unconscious creation limits and distorts the life you create as well.
Anybody alive has experienced a moment of trauma sufficient to activate our instinct mind to protect us from whatever immediate threat we were encountering in that moment. We call these moments of traumatic contact SOURCE POINTS. The modes of trauma transference could be physical, emotional, mental or a combination of any of these together. In these source moments, usually when we are very young, our instinct mind becomes activated and disconnect for the conscious creative powers of our being. In these moments we enlist the aid of our imagination to try to make sense of that moment of trauma. We create stories about what happened and form powerful emotional attachments to these stories and mental images. Eventually, as our instinct mind subsides, we are able to re establish a conscious connection to our being and set forth to fulfill our primary purpose as loving instruments of life force expression.
These traumatic source points usually involve words and force. These words such as “You stupid no good so of a bitch” or “Your useless and always in my way” are suggestions. These suggestions alone are usually accepted as fact by kids who are both open and receptive to the world around them. There is no one standing next to them in these moments to tell them that they are not useless, stupid or anything of the sort. There is nobody standing next to them who is consciously connected to their being to show them that they are very useful and intelligent and that the person who just suggested these destructive words to them was unconscious and only projecting what they believe about themselves onto them.
Stay tuned... Much more to come.
The Fundamental Principles of Being by Robert Gray Gallagher
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