Wind of the Soul

I’ve recently been discussing ways in which we have access to empowering ourselves through our own innate mystical means. When I say we, I most definitely include myself because I’m always working through releasing worrisome, fearful, anxious emotions. I’ve come to the realization I was making it a habit to stay hung in undesirable emotional states far too often. Staying in those states was not only extremely counter productive and counter creative (from the manner I truly desired); over time it was taking its toll on my self esteem, and confidence, pulling me away from my center.

There is a positive aspect to my past negative emotional states, however- they allowed me to more clearly define exactly what I desire in life. It’s through this clarity that I feel I have a much sharper image of where my life is headed. I now realize when I experience undesirable emotions; the issue that’s bringing them forth needs to be resolved- within myself. As I find ways to internally resolve those issues, my external life experience moves smoother and my reality begins to take shape in a manner I find more desirable.

While it may seem all well and good for me to talk about working with our emotions to help positively affect our reality, the point may be moot if I’m not touching on why our emotions are so critical for this process to work in the first place. And that’s the focus of today’s entry: why our reality and the experiences we have within it are dependent upon our predominant emotional states.

Picture it: (trying to do my best Sophia impression from the Golden Girls ) You wake at sunup and quietly step out the back door of your home. The brisk morning air feels exhilarating against your skin as your bare feet find their way through the soft, slightly damp grass. Water droplets, from last night’s rain, glisten on the leaves of the garden plant life- magnifying their textures.

Morning songbirds sing out their praise for the new day, deep within the grove of trees a few yards from your home. Standing there, your mind quiets and you lose yourself in joy and appreciation for the moment. The glorious rays of the sun are now ascending the mountainous peaks in the distance.

As your chest rises and falls with each fresh breath, tears begin to stream down your face. You’re suddenly overcome by a deep sense of connection to all things and an amazing awareness of well being and harmony. It feels as if you are being tuned, like an instrument from within- higher and higher until it seems you could burst.

Welling up from deep inside your abdomen, climbing into your chest and head, spilling over into the landscape, it pours forth. It’s in this moment you detect an extraordinary inner sensing and immediate knowledge of who and what you truly are.

The who and what (mentioned in the above block of text) is the key to understanding why our emotions are so important in creating our reality. The who and what is the originator of consciousness itself. The individual in my story has experienced an encounter with the true power that flows through all of us and that is all of us.

She/He experienced it in a relaxed, appreciative, quiet moment, not during a moment of worry, fear or doubt. We have the potential for developing our own reality, and we have been accomplishing this process each and every day of our lives.

But it takes an inner knowing that each one of us is the originator of consciousness to truly be able to tap fully into our intentional creative power and abilities. If we believe that we are some type of underling that is unworthy of our true wants and desires, then our life experience will reflect this attitude and belief.

When we start to understand that we are the judge, jury and executioner of our life experience, then we start taking our own power back. This originator of consciousness (you, me, all of us) isn’t going to shout out to us that we are doing something wrong- because there is no wrong. There is simply creation, for better or worse (depending upon our human interpretations of it).

And the more we focus on our predominant interpretations of it (through our emotional attitude), the more of it we continue to receive. While we may never hear a voice telling us we are doing it wrong, many of us will start to pick up context clues, along the way, helping us realize we can make it much more enjoyable and much easier on ourselves.

Some people may argue that most of us do hear an inner voice or our conscience informing us we are wrong about something. I believe this comes from the fidgety, human brain, and not from a true place of relaxed allowing. My example of the individual in their backyard provides a stark contrast, showing the difference between someone who’s judging themselves and someone who’s relaxed and allowing within the moment.

If we are accustomed to believing that our actions need to be structured in a specific way to be right or correct, then we are going to receive the impression that we are doing something bad when those actions go outside that structure.

I’m not advising anyone to do things that they believe are bad- I’m illustrating the point that the human brain (through conditioning) creates the ideas of good and bad. We live in a society where things are deemed appropriate or inappropriate all the time, but again this is through conditioning, social structures and mores, not because a creator (that’s commonly believed to exist external from ourselves) deems them so.

So, what exactly is this originator of consciousness I keep speaking about and what are its guidelines or conditions for living life? The originator of consciousness has been called many things by many people since time and memoriam: God, Allah, YahWeh, and Krishna, just to name a few, but names and stories could never do it justice.

You are the only one that can fully know it and come to understand who and what it is because its consciousness is unique within each one of us. I would never pretend to know what it is for anyone outside of myself. I’m only suggesting ways in which each of us can get to know it better through our own inner awareness.

I believe that the only conditions and guidelines for life, that it “requires”, are: to experience it and joyfully appreciate it. That may sound extremely simple and not very profound, but again humankind has been trying to over-complicate every aspect of life (especially God) for thousands of years; sometimes the simplest interpretation is the most concise.

We are the physical equivalent or physical interpretation of source consciousness. We are an expression of it. Source consciousness chooses to experience itself in many forms and manners- the human experience being one of them.

The originator of consciousness created us, yet we are also it. It gave itself (us) the ability to create in the same manner it creates, to continue perpetuating the creative experience. We are free to create in whatever way we feel necessary and are doing it on a consistent basis, even if we are unaware of it. When we experience undesirable emotional states and physical experiences we become more aware of what would feel far more desirable for us to experience. And every time we experience anything, whether we deem it appropriate for our life or not, we are adding to the original intention that we set forth to begin with- to simply have the creative experience.

The emotions are the sculpting tool and paintbrush that we have given ourselves to create in this physical environment. We apply paint to the canvas and clay to the sculpture each and every time we experience strong emotional surges within ourselves. The emotions and feelings are truly the tool of god (us). I feel this is why our reality and the experiences we have within it are dependent upon our predominant emotional states.

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