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MANY PATHS TO ENLIGHTENMENT
There are many paths to enlightenment and
no particular right or wrong why to get there.
Essentially it is about going within, working on your
thoughts and belief structures and taping into your sub
conscious mind. There becomes a time where the conscious
and sub conscious minds merge. Where as before it was hidden,
yet still influencing your thoughts and day-to-day living.
To me this defines what enlightenment means, to have
greater awareness.
One-way of accessing your sub conscious is
by meditation and daily affirmations. Affirmations are
stated in the now, as if it has already happened. Use
words such as “I am” and “I am now”,
rather than “I will be” or “Try to be”.
Essentially affirmations can be used on any area of your
life that you feel needs improvement. Think of your sub
conscious mind as simply something running in the background on
“auto pilot”. It is only when we start going
within, does the unknown begin to become the known.
Meditation is essentially focusing your
mind and intent on something you desire. There are no
short cuts to enlightenment and it takes many years of practice
and diligence. It is about becoming a master over your body,
mind and spirit and feeling empowered with this knowledge.
The ego is quite happy for us to play the victim through
life, as it does not know any better. In a sense our soul
has to teach our ego and this is where many people feel
resistance. To become enlightened does not mean to ignore
our ego, hoping it will go away. It is about
acknowledging our lower emotions, balancing them and keeping
them in check. The only way to do this is through intent.
We have all been in situations, where we
have let others influence our emotions and reactions. But
over time, one realises that we also have a choice how we
respond to situations. There are only two emotions in the
universe, love and fear. As a free-will human being we
have the choice whether we react out of love or fear.
With practice, we become more in control of our thoughts
and less likely to react to situations in our life. It is
okay to feel fear, as we all do at certain times of our life.
The trick however is not to feed the fear with negative
thoughts and anger.
Being enlightened means to have greater
awareness of yourself and the life around you. You simply
don’t just wake up one day enlightened. It’s a
conscious choice and a gradual process of processing and
releasing deep internal work. It is work in a sense,
because you have to peel away layers of pain and hurt in order
to be rewarded with a higher awareness. This pain can be
very old, carried from previous lifetimes or early childhood.
It remains trapped in time in a sense, until we are ready
to deal with it again. With the release of old wounds, we
can be rewarded with new healing abilities and psychic
abilities from spirit.