From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 18 - August 1994
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New Realities
By Mark Jones, USA
Finding and Eliminating Blockages to Evolvement
I believe that each of us enters this lifetime as well as those
preceding
it to learn about ourselves, and to grow and evolve. Thus viewed,
life is a learning experience.
Each of us is creating and focusing on this 'present' life
time as a producer does a play. As Shakespeare remarked, 'All
the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.'
Unknowingly or knowingly we select the players in our script. We
create
each person as we perceive them to play a role in our drama. The roles
we give them are continuous projections of aspects of ourselves which
at some level of awareness we conveniently set 'out there'.
These enable us to see and come to terms with the various ways we
are limiting our evolvement, and cutting our own experiental line
to all of existence. Unfortunately, far too often we find occasion
to blame others for what we perceive or experience or for 'not
making it go right.' As we do, our negative ego probably smirks
a big, 'Guffah,' and 'I gotcha again, stupid. Go on,
judge and blame them some more. Give them your power.'
In the evening as I take my sauna I observe in an overlooking balcony
a bird in a cage with a mirror in it. Noise sets it off into mad
pecking
attacks on the mirror. I suspect that the mirror 'out there'
is reflecting its inner frustrations with not being free. In a similar
manner, instead of recognizing that the people in the world as
we observe them are each reflecting our inner beliefs about ourselves,
we may instead find fault with or object to them. We may fail to
recognize that awarely or unawarely we selected them to play certain
roles in our lives, and to give us the feedback we need to evolve.
Interpreting the feedback we get
In recent years metaphysics and the physics of science have come to
an agreement in their observations that we live in a universe made
up of vibratory energies of which we are one source. Through our
vibrations
we create the resonance which determines our unique experiences. From
them, the feedback we get from the 'players' in our scripts,
from our emotions and from our bodily health or lack of it, we can
deduce what our beliefs must be that are causing us to cut our ITSA
maker line(1) within
ourselves and with other aspects of existence. The simple belief
handling
procedures outlined in my book Realizing Our Dreams provide
a means to do this systematically and easily. If you are interested
in getting a copy, send $10.00 to Mark Jones, 3400 Ben Lomond Pl.
#123, Los Angeles, CA. 90027. Add $1.00 for air mail.
Some often used methods to keep it all out there, and not perceiving
how one is creating barriers and limitations is to form beliefs that
'I'm not really complete, Godlike or OT or powerful, and that
some feelings if fully experienced would overwhelm me.' These
and others are woven together to form an almost impenetrable suite
of armor. Their key functions are to avoid having to feel, and to
be responsible. They can be opened up by identifying and changing
limiting beliefs and releasing the feelings connected with them.
Other forms of blockages
Limiting beliefs form one critical type of blockage. Another, as
mentioned earlier, is the unwillingness or inability to feel, which
stems from limiting beliefs. To the degree that we are afraid of and
suppressing negative emotions, we are also avoiding causative
emotions.
Emotions are in spirals. If you take your index finger and curl it
around to touch your thumb, then you may say the finger on one side
represents intense hate and the one on the other side love. They
are very close. As we open ourselves up to the intensity of hate,
which is so often suppressed, we open ourselves up to the intensity
of love. To the extent that we're afraid of negative emotions, we'll
be afraid of positive and causative emotions.
Metaphysically speaking, our emotions are the most real aspect of
us. They are the source of our unique vibrations. They are said to
be the aspect of us that continues through all of the higher levels
of existence.
There are various reasons we limit our abilities to feel. One is that
we've been taught that it's not nice to feel certain emotions, and
particularly not to feel them intensely, i.e., 'Showing emotions
is a sign of weakness.' Tied in with this are beliefs that we've
formed that it's dangerous to show them, i.e., 'anger is bad,
it can hurt people.'
Another thing about feeling emotions is the unknown. If you are
swimming
in the ocean and the life guard tells you that it's only 10 ft. deep,
you can feel comfortable. But if he tells you that it is 1,000 feet
deep, it becomes scary. Similarly with emotions, if they are too deep,
you might get lost. But that's what evolvement is all about, getting
lost in ourselves and discovering greater aspects of our own
beingnesses
and awareness. That's done primarily through emotions.
There are other blockages such as guilt; victimhood such as 'I'm
being manipulated by dark forces,' etc.; lack of self worth and
self esteem, being so out of touch with your inner child and parent
energies that you allow them to take over without even being aware
that you have, etc. It's often easier to see this occurring in others
than in ourselves. We see them acting as adults one minute and as
a spoiled child or critical parent moments later. Finding and
eliminating
these and other blockages is an essential part of evolvement.
(1) ITSA maker line - the pc's line to his bank.