All these are emotions, traits of the spirit. They are
energy. It’s energy you put forth to the universe and
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announce, “This is who I am. This is whom I choose to be,
at least at this moment, subject to change.”
Twelve on the positive side and twelve on the negative
side. We’ve got our work cut out for us. If we desire to live the life we want to live on our terms, then we better reduce the negative and increase the positive. The formula works
much better that way. You can have quite a few positive
traits, but if you have much negative, then those two wolves spoken about will continue in an eternal fight together, each tearing each other apart. You’ve got to increase one side and decrease the other, and you’ll be able to create whatever life you choose to live.
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Anger
Let’s begin with anger and how to reduce this. Anger is
an emotion everyone experiences. Even Jesus was angry
when he threw out the money changers in the temple of
Jerusalem. Angry at the priests, calling them the “blind
leading the blind.” Yes, there is such a thing as righteous anger. Anger is a natural emotion for all of us, though left unchecked, it can cause rage. But the problem with anger
is that you’ll never have a clear mind and a peaceful spirit as long as you are angry over something. Anger can be
quite destructive as well, tearing down everything you’ve
ever built in your life in a matter of seconds. One second of anger, one lifetime of regret. But anger is like a purge valve; it needs to be released. Too much pressure will cause the whole system to blow, so a relief is needed from time
to time.
The best way I have found to release it is to go somewhere with nature. I’m fortunate enough to live in an area that has 81
a lot of woods. Therefore, I will go for a walk in the woods, and releasing my anger seems to come naturally when I
am surrounded by such beauty. It’s hard to stay angry that way. Trees are just that: trees. Look at them and study them with the source revealing all its secrets. You’ll find they are perfect life-forms with spirit. Surround yourself by the
spirit of the trees, and soon you’ll forget about the injustice of the world, and by the time you get home, the anger is
released. Job well done. Oh, and by the way, it doesn’t hurt to offer up some forgiveness while you’re out there with
whomever or whatever you perceive to cause your original
anger. By the time you do this, your anger is gone. If it isn’t completely gone, at least it is diminished along with your resistance or negative energy.
Anger is also a lack of understanding and remembrance.
Even though we perceive to have been wronged, we forget
they are our brothers and sisters just finding their own
paths. Some may be in a state of extreme low consciousness.
Step away, forgive, and move on.
Next up to bat is envy.
Envy
Envy is looking at the neighbor’s Corvette and saying,
“Hey, I want that.” It’s also looking at your neighbor’s wife, their dog, house, or any possessions they may have that you think you need to acquire in order to find happiness, joy, or peace. That’s correct; envy is lack of peace. It’s lacking 82
whatever you perceive in this game we call life. It’s getting lost in the illusion.
Most of the time its envy or something we have absolutely
no control over. It’s like being envious of Shaquille O’Neal for being tall when I’m just five foot eight. Its saying, “I wish I could be that.” How do we combat envy? It’s simple.
First, know that we are all eternal life spirits having
ourselves an experience for the benefit of the soul. This
entire universe is an illusion created for us so that we can experience who we are at this level of our being. We are
much greater. Always keep that in mind in any situation
that may arrive in the future.
Second—and I’m quite sure the reader is looking for
something at a more practical level to use in the here and now—what you perceive to be lacking, you have. You
already have it. Here’s an example.
You may see someone who is very happy. Someone
who seems as though they are at peace, and you’ve just had yourselves a bad day. Someone who is head over heels in
love with another and you haven’t tasted love in years. And you wonder how they got to be that way, when you are
quite stuck in a rut. Well, here is the eternal secret and it works not only for envy, but it works for any other negative emotion. What you desire, give away. You’re probably
thinking that I’ve lost my marbles when I make a statement like that. It’s true though, if you want to be happy, cause another to be happy and it will show you that you’ve had
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happiness inside you all along. And then awareness will set in, and you realize that you are a storehouse for happiness and you can give this away at any time in your existence.
You’ve always had it, you just didn’t know it. It’s an amazing revelation discovering something within you that you
hadn’t before. A eureka moment in life when that happens.
If you desire love, then love another, and cause another to feel loved. Hope, then cause another to have it and you’ll be cured of your envy. This formula also works for many other negative emotions.
Life is like a water pump. Whatever energy you set forth
will be replenished within you. If you send out into the
universe the energy called love to others, then your spirit will refill with love. Ah, but there is more to it than that.
Jesus had a wonderful parable in regards to this;
For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling
to a far country, who called his own servants and
delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five
talents, to another two, and to another one, to each
according to his own ability; and immediately he went
on a journey. Then he who had received the five talents
went and traded with them, and made another five
talents. And likewise he who had received two gained
two more also. But he who had received one went and
dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money. After a
long time the lord of those servants came and settled
accounts with them. So he who had received five
talents came and brought five other talents, saying,
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‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have
gained five more talents besides them.’ His lord said to
him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were
faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over
many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ He also
who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord,
you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained
two more talents besides them.’ His lord said to him,
‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been
faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over
many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ Then he
who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord,
I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have
not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered
seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent
in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked
and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have
not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
So you ought to have deposited my money with the
bankers, and at my coming I would have received back
my own with interest. Therefore take the talent from
him, and give it to him who has ten talents.‘For to
everyone who has, more will be given, and he will
have abundance; but from him who does not have,
even what he has will be taken away. And cast the
unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There
will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ (Matt. 25:14–
30, nkjv, emphasis added)
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Jesus used talent as the example in this parable. A
talent was a form of currency in those times. But you can
substitute talent for any emotion in this as well. Any positive or negative energy can be substituted in this wonderful
parable. Therefore when you send forth love, the soul, or
God, will replenish you. According to Jesus, it seems to
double. He was a very wise man, so who am I to disagree
with him? It’s like that water pump with the flow turned all the way up. If you want positive energy, then give it away.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? As you send, so shall you receive.
Oh, this next one here is a biggie. It is the root cause of negative energy. Every other negative energy that exists can trace itself back to fear.
Fear
The original fear in our existence is when our spirit first perceived separation from its source, the soul. There we all were, encompassed in the love of the soul, when the next
thing our spirit and mind know is that we no longer are
one. Let me explain.
Let’s use the example of light as pure energy of the soul.
It’s nothing but light. Light is all there is. But the soul didn’t know what light was because there was no reference
to compare light with. Therefore the spirits had to leave
the soul and enter into the darkness to give it something to compare itself to.
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Another example: when you are in love, it’s a wonderful
feeling. But when you are in love forever, you forget what love is. You’ve forgotten what it is like to not be in love, so you lose sight of all the qualities of love. You know of nothing else. Therefore you leave love in order to come
back to love and rediscover what love really is. If you are constantly in some mode or another, you forget what it
really is. You step out of something in order to once again return to it so you can once again experience what that is.
Therefore we all left the light, or love, or the soul, to once again discover what it really is. So we had to experience
love’s counterpart, and that, my friends, is fear. And that reason is why when we fall in love our first emotion is to fear losing that newfound love. We’ve experienced losing
love in the beginning and never gotten ourselves away from that feeling. It’s a difficult feeling to shed, losing love. And that created the original fear.
From that feeling, all other fears came into play. The
fear of losing something is the biggest fear. Losing a
job, husband, possessions; the list is endless. Along with that, you have the fear of an outcome, the fear of losing
control of something, and the fear of anything. Fear begins to dominate, which leads to all other negative emotions.
Fear is the root negative emotion. It was with us in the
beginning. Fear is number one in negative energy. It will
keep you from achieving anything in life. But there is a way to overcome this.
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There is a way to defeat fear. The first thing we must
do is to take a certain situation that currently has fear in it and know that we are all eternal. No harm can come to our
spirits. Once the spirit and mind are done with this body
we return back to our original source, the soul.
Now that we’ve remembered that we are all eternal, the
next step is also remember that this life and every other
life we have lived, are living now, and will continue to live in the future is a holographic illusion based on time and
space. It’s not real. None of it is. So whatever we perceive to be real isn’t. Whatever fear is facing us is nonsense. Always remember this: nothing is as it seems.
We made an agreement with the source when we left
it that our memories would be erased every time we took
on a new body. Our deeper mind—our spirit mind—
remembers, but our body mind doesn’t. Or more accurately,
our mind remembers, but our brain, which is just a huge
data processor for this life and this life only, doesn’t.
It’s all about perception. It’s not real.
So it’s much easier to face fear when you know it isn’t
real. And there is the next step: to face it and overcome it.
We go to a job interview. We don’t know the outcome,
so automatically there is fear. Anxiety and nervousness both come from fear. We face it as we pretend to be confident
during the interview process and make it through it.
Overcoming our fear and suddenly, miraculously, the fear
is gone. The truth is, it never existed in the first place. We 88
put it there because we didn’t know the outcome. We blew
things way out of proportion. We probably lost sleep over
it the night before.
Finally, the way to overcome fear is to love. Love
overcomes every other emotion. It is the original emotion
spawned from the source. In reality, love is all there really is out there. Then love gave birth to everything else just as the soul gave birth to all that is, both negative and positive.
See the perceived fear for what it is, an illusion, and then love the process of it. Remember who you truly are, and the fear will disappear and so will the resistance in our formula we’ve created. Faith goes up, resistance goes down, and the chance of any intended results goes up with it.
Guilt
Another emotion which causes massive amounts of negative
energy or resistance is guilt. This particular energy will shrink your spirit to the point where no positive energy can come through from the soul. Guilt is the great roadblock.
It tells you that you aren’t worthy of any blessings from
the source. It’s the root emotion for regret, inferiority, and doubt. Left unchecked, it will lead to depression and
possible suicide. Many people on this planet live in guilt; therefore, it needs to be rectified. We can’t continue down this path of guilt. It can only lead to destruction.
So how do we combat guilt? Forgiveness is the key.
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Forgiveness is easy to say but hard to do, especially with ourselves. It’s much easier to forgive another but far more difficult to forgive ourselves.
Let’s begin with the word sin. It is ingrained in our mindset that sin is evil and dark. We live in a society where many people have been taught that we are sinful in nature.
That basically we are evil beings searching for redemption.
And that the only answer to our sinful nature is to trust
in the Lord Jesus. This is a grave error perpetrated on us by a church, which seeks to keep our power unto itself. If they can convince us that we are sinful and the only way
to remove that is by going to church and doing what they
tell us to be saved, then they have our power that was given to us from the source. Therefore, it make us feel guilty, and makes us think that they are the only beings allowed to
remove that guilt. And that, my friends, is why our society is such a mess. Oh, and don’t forget to tithe that ten percent!
Let me explain further.
Each and every one of us in the beginning comes from
the original source, the soul. The power of the soul lies
within us all. The soul is what is known as the “kingdom of heaven.” The soul split into spirit, mind, and body to know itself. Each one of us spirits has this soul within us. All the power of the universe is ours. There can be no other way.
Now if a different belief system comes along and
convinces us otherwise, that we aren’t the soul and that we need to go to them in order to retrieve it, then they have 90
taken our original source away from us. That must end in
order for us to move forward in our discovery of ourselves.
Back to guilt. Remove the word sin and replace it with the word error, and everything changes. What that does is it removes the judgment of sin. When we “lived” under
this illusion of sin, it took our power from us. When we
live under error instead, well then, it isn’t so terrible, and it’s far much easier to forgive ourselves instead. See where I’m heading with this? Just making it simpler for all of us to forgive ourselves.
After all, when we commit errors in our lives, it’s
generally because we did the best we did at the time with
the knowledge we had, which in many cases isn’t much.
When we don’t have the complete and total knowledge of
a current situation, it’s far easier to commit an error. And much simpler to forgive yourself for making the mistake
you committed. Therefore, forgive yourself for the error you committed. No need for judgment, no need for sorrow, no
need for guilt. We did the best we could at the time with
the knowledge we had, which wasn’t much. Especially since
our teachers didn’t know much themselves.
Deception
Besides fear, deception is our enemy’s number one tool.
Deception has been used since time immemorial. It
creates wars and causes nations to fall. Deception betrays trust. It’s an extremely large negative emotion, which
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causes negative energy to be released on a massive scale. It can lead to resentment, anger, regret, and sorrow.
Deception can be disguised so well that you can be told
ninety percent truth and ten percent lies, and those lies
could lead to your downfall. It’s extremely clever in that you could be totally trusting in your source for truth and still be led down the path of sorrows. Deception is the darkest and most negative energy there is. So how must we deal with
this? Let’s find out.
First, don’t lie. Let the truth be told though the heavens fall! It doesn’t matter if you’ve made a mistake and now you must own up to it. Tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. At least in doing so, you now won’t have to lose energy over worrying about being discovered.
When we lie, we have to keep track of our lies so we can
remain hidden. But the problem with that is that truth will follow you to hell and beyond. You won’t be able to shake
it from your own mind. It will always remain no matter
what the situation or circumstance. Lying lowers your
consciousness and blocks any positive energy from flowing
through your spirit from the source of all things, the soul.
Therefore, tell the truth in all things.
That’s deception from within, and we have much control
over that part. But deception from without, from another, is an entirely different matter. And how do we deal with that?
How can we tell we are being lied to?
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Discernment—there is your answer. Fine, so you ask,
“How can you discern truth from fiction?”
It all lies within us. All the truth of every life we’ve lived, the life we are living now, and the life of our futures lies within us. It’s all there. Just go right ahead and tap into that unlimited power source, and discernment comes easier.
Well, that’s fine, you say, but how does that relate
to whether or not you can tell if you are being misled
presently? Start by looking into the windows of their spirit: their eyes. Look deep within them, and you will know truth from falsehood.
Second, look deep within your own self. Your gut feeling
will also tell you. We’ve all felt that feeling when someone is deceiving us. Something inside of us is saying, Don’t trust it, don’t believe it. That’s the future you telling the present you that you are being misled.
All our spirits lie within us. Past, present, and future. They continually communicate with each other through feelings.
So when you receive that gut feeling that something isn’t
right, well, that’s you telling you to walk away from your present situation. Your future you knows the outcome
of such things, and it wasn’t pretty. Look within and use
your tools.
Third, as we grow in our spirit, we will be able to decipher others’ feelings rather well. We will be able to pick up on things, which up until now have been hidden.
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We are all beings of energy. And when we are engaging
in conversation with another, our energies merge at some
level. Your being will be able to pick up on theirs and be able to tell if it’s positive or negative energy being sent in your direction. Trust that feeling, and you will know the
truth. And always remember that the kingdom of heaven,
which knows all things, lies within you.
Doubt
Doubt is the number one cause for our prayers to remain
unanswered. We doubt that God will answer us. We also
doubt our own abilities. We do this because of the lack
of knowledge of who and what we really are. A seed of
doubt will become a tree of resistance. And its fruits will produce inferiority.
We just don’t believe we are good enough. We are not
worthy of the many blessings due us. We believe that we
are not sons and daughters of the living God; therefore, we are on our own. This is another path that leads to our own destruction, both within and without.
As I’ve mentioned before, we are told all throughout
our lives that we are not worthy of God’s, or the soul’s,
many blessings and that we are a lesser being. Children of a lesser God. Children of some fictional God who sits on the throne and separates the wheat from the chaff. And that
if we do good deeds, we might, just might, be able to slip ourselves into some kingdom of heaven out there, wherever
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“out there” is. What hogwash! They tell us that we have to wait and find out after our lives are over. And God help
us if he’s not satisfied with our lives in servitude. Then we get thrown into this bottomless pit of fire and brimstone, which is basically something a dictator would do.
Pure nonsense! That sounds more like the actions of a
tyrant rather than a God of pure love. It sounds more like God as Adolph Hitler, and the rest of us as Jews on our way to the gas chambers. Does that sound like a God of love
to you? It’s strictly unbelievable what we are being taught nowadays. Our eyes have been closed to the truth for too
long. It’s time for us to learn the good news. What Jesus
said about the religious leaders of his day holds true for the leaders of today.
For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men;
for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow
those who are entering to go in. (Matt. 23:13, nkjv)
Yep, that pretty much describes many religious leaders
of today. How can they teach about the kingdom of heaven
when they don’t even know what it is or where it is at? They have their reward.
And the good news is this: we are created in God’s own
image and God’s own likeness. Therefore, we are sons and
daughters of the living God. In other words, we are created individual spirits that all come from the same source, and in each one of us, we carry the same characteristics as our 95
source, the soul, or God, if you will. Now if you can find yourself a house of worship that teaches that doctrine, then by all means stay. You’ve found yourself a nice home. But
they are few and far between.
So the best way to remove doubt is the best way to
remove any other type of negative energy or emotion that
flows through your spirit. Remember who you truly are. We
are not simply our bodies. We are not our minds. We are
not our spirits. We are all those things and more. We are
soul, spirit, mind, and body all rolled into one. Our source is God, split into different parts of body, mind, and spirit.
But we always have been and will always remain the soul.
As Jesus declared, “The father and I are one.”
Sorrow
There have been times in my life and many others when
you perceived to have hit rock bottom. That there is no end in sight. When the cleansing potion of weeping just wasn’t enough. That you didn’t have the answers to the problems
in your life and felt completely and totally helpless. The end was near, and you felt you couldn’t do anything about it.
When I was a young boy of thirteen, my parents divorced,
and after the divorce was finalized, they split up my brother and sister. We lived in different states, so therefore, I felt completely alone, shut myself in my room, and wallowed in
sorrow. It was a lonely feeling, this sorrow. Sometimes, life can be quite cruel.
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