“We
make a choice on how to feel at each point of our lives, whether we are aware
of it consciously, or not - and the choice determines whether we manifest happiness
or doom in our lives from moment to moment and over successive moments - but
this choice is influenced by how we have felt in previous moments and the
habits of feelings the mind has developed.”
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We keep creating the same kind of reality for ourselves at the level of feelings or emotions, in spite of changing external environment.
Feelings or emotions are a
manifestation of energy movement. All energy movement in the universe is
cyclical. Energy, by its nature or by law, moves in cycles which are circular
in motion. Thus we have the Earth revolving around the Sun, we have seasonal
cycles, lunar cycles etc.
The movement of energy in the
universe can be understood by metaphorically, observing the movement of energy
in a calm pool of water. When we throw a stone in a pool of calm water, circles
of ripples are created. These cycles or circles of ripples keep getting created
automatically, as long as the disturbance created by the stone continues to
cause imbalance in the pool.
The circles are created around the stone and
rest of the river flows calmly. Likewise, our creative energy moves around the
feelings we focus upon while rest of our body functions calmly around an
established state of balance.
Whenever we focus on a different
feeling or emotion than what we have been used to focusing upon, ripples are
created in a different direction in our calm pool of life-force energy.
Our normal state of existence is
interrupted and new energy cycles start getting formed which appear disturbing
and unfamiliar to us.
This change of focus acts in the
same way as throwing a stone in new place in the calm pool of water. It
disturbs the existing internal balance of energy. In other words, we create a movement
of energy in a new direction, whenever we focus intensely on a different feeling.
Until we focus, the movement of
energy from its existing balanced state does not take place. But the moment we
focus, ripples of creation get activated.
Since energy moves in cycles, our
feelings, which are a manifestation of energy, also move along cyclical paths.
Energy circuits are formed in almost the same pattern as ripples of water are
formed, one following another. Through these energy circuits, feelings keep
getting created as long as the new interrupting focus is maintained.
Thus, we keep repeating the same
type of experiences at the emotional level, over years and over life-times,
irrespective of material or technological development in the external world. We
keep feeling the same way, internally, because we remain in the same energy
cycle.
For
instance, a focus on self defense, from outsiders would have begun in the
primitive man’s society. A new realization of feeling insecure would have
created the need in the primitive man to use weapons for defending her/his
belongings from predators.
The new realization acted as the
stone in a pool of water and motivated energy movement. Once activated, the
energy continued to repeat itself. The need to defend ourselves still remains a
dominant focus in the human mind, as is evident, when we choose to spend huge
amounts of our development funds on the defense industry.
If we care to stop our repetitive thought
process for a few brief moments of awareness, we would arrive at a subsequent
new realization which would make the old focus point obsolete.
The energy cycle can stop only if we
focus on stopping the current by shifting the focus of our thinking, with
awareness. It cannot stop by itself because energy has to flow and it would
keep flowing wherever we focus. Till we focus differently, we automatically
remain in the same energy cycle.
By changing the energy cycle and looking
beyond the previously established beliefs that we have to defend ourselves from
enemies, we would realize that the external technological changes, have made
the concept of needing weapons for the self-defense of countries almost
redundant.
Scarcity does not exist today as it
did in the old days. Therefore, there is actually no rational danger from
enemies except at the level of competitive self-interest.
Our fear is an outcome of a focus on
negative feelings. We are conditioned, subconsciously, into believing that each
human being is happier by defeating another. Hence, we have to compete or we would
be attacked because that is the nature of being human which is totally false. Human
beings like to share joys and laughter together, if their survival is not
threatened.
It is a lack of awareness about the
human mind and an inability to distinguish it from the animal mind which makes
us spend huge financial resources on weapons that could otherwise , be used to
spread love and peace; and benefits of technological development for all.
Being humans, we can create with our
thought process unlike animals. If we focus on enemies being there, we would
create them with our focus. The more we invest on weapons, the more we would
tell ourselves that we have enemies to
justify our expenditure.
The
external world is a manifestation of the feelings we focus on. It keeps manifesting itself more and more
creatively, as we keep reinforcing the same feelings and mobilizing energies
towards that kind of manifestation.
Like, earlier we chose to fight wars
with swords. Now we choose to fight with guns or bombs, yet, the experience at
the level of feelings remains the same—we continue mentally fighting in both
cases; albeit, guns are a higher and more complex form of creation than swords
are. The pattern of repetition gets reinforced with continuous focus and keeps
manifesting itself in newer, more evolved forms.
If we instead, focused on spreading
compassion and love and neutralizing our negative tendencies by no longer
fuelling them with our insecurities, we would reinforce the creation of a
happier world.
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