YOUR SOUL & YOUR HIGHER SELF

Your soul takes birth on Earth to evolve its brightness to a higher positive frequency .By taking the birth on Earth, it attempts to increase the power of its life force energy through a process of co-creation. Earth is a planet where reality exists on a physical plane and happiness comes through physical contact with people or objects unlike the celestial plane where life exists on an energy plane. It requires more soul energy to dream and create reality on the physical plane, than on the spirit energy plane just as it requires more energy to move a solid object compared to moving a feather. Spirits are made of air and their reality is manifested differently in celestial space than on the physical space of Earth. The soul lessons of creation which are learned by overcoming difficulties on Earth can also be learned on celestial space but it is a slower process as negative energies are not so intense on the non-physical planes. It is believed that coming on Earth is a faster way of learning soul lessons than being in space as it is far more difficult to create happiness in the physical dimension than in the dimension of light.

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The soul has a far greater essence than being just a body. It is a part of a higher awareness, which is called the Higher Self of the soul in a body.     

           Just as the bulb derives its power to radiate from the main electricity line, the soul derives its power from this greater source of life-fore energy, viz. the Higher Self, wherein the Higher Self derives its power from the main source of Life, viz. the Creator.

           The incarnated soul on Earth is a minute fragment of its Higher Self. Metaphorically, if the single soul in a body is like a small torch battery, the Higher Self is like an electric generator of a building. Or if the single soul is like a single ray of sunlight, the Higher Self is like the Sun. It is the same quality of energy as the soul but is much bigger in terms of power or energy involved and therefore, much more powerful than the single soul.

           The Higher Self exists in non-physical dimensions of the Light in spirit form. It has a much greater frequency than that of the soul in a physical body and therefore, it generates much more power than the soul of a physical body. The single soul is connected to this Higher Self and gets its sense of identity from the larger whole.

            The soul energy is by itself formless. It incarnates in a physical body which has a form. Being in a physical body is like giving an expression to a painting which the Higher Self’s consciousness creates in alignment with its purpose of incarnation.

 The soul takes birth in the human body to learn the art of mastering the process of creation on the physical dimension. By virtue of being the part of the Creator, the Soul is the Co-creator of the Universe.

         

Like a painter paints a body form with his visualization, it is our Higher Self which decides whether the soul would incarnate in a male body, a female body or a unisex body. The problems which a soul might face while being in the body like ill health, mental or physical handicaps etc. are also decided upon before birth in a life-plan made in consensus with the Higher Self.

           The physical body is an approximate projection of the soul just as a painting is an approximate projection of the painter’s mind. That means that the soul is not exactly what the body represents. The soul is not fat or thin, tall or short by itself. The soul is formless, and assumes the form of the body just as water assumes the shape of its beaker, but is a formless fluid energy by itself. Thus, our soul is not the body. It is the life force in the body.

           The Higher Self envisages a particular kind of body for the soul so that it can mobilize the soul for mastering energies which would help it create the body it desires. How good or bad the body is created depends on the kinds of negative energies which the Higher Self is planning to overcome through the body.

          

           The more accurate the soul becomes in the art of creation, the more accurately it can create a body which depicts its core identity, over its life-time.

Reality is pure feeling of an experience ... not a non living thing

 Process of perceiving information as reality or falsehood

 Our mind receives millions of sensations at any given moment but it can process only a few at a given time due to its limited focusing capacity. So, our mind has to give selective attention to the reality happening outside. Thus, it gives attention to some external stimulus only, and ignores/rejects the remaining bits of information coming its way.

 At any one moment, about 2.3 million bits of information pass our way. However, we can focus on and internalize, into our subconscious mind, a maximum of 7 + or - 2 units of information. The remaining information gets rejected.

               At an energy transmission level, the external stimulus which the mind gives attention to is chosen in the following manner:           

          Each form of physical energy in the environment, whether it is light, sound, touch, smell, or taste, is a manifestation of energy since everything in the universe is made up of energy.

                Matter or energy is always vibrating at a certain frequency .Different forms of energy are distinguished depending on the frequency each vibrates in. For example, solids are distinguished from air or water because the atoms or molecules in each vibrate at a different frequency.

          Every thought which is recorded in our mind carries energy, in the form of an attached feeling. The feeling has an energy component and an individual frequency.

      This feeling or energy component in the thought makes us aware that something exists in the external world. For example, when we think of our work, we have some kind of a picture coming to our mind which has a feeling attached.

 Memories are made of feelings.  Any thought which does not have a feeling attached is a fleeting thought and is not recorded by the mind, because its energy component dissipates as soon as the physical stimulus which created it disappears.

 E.g. At the end of a day, we remember how we felt more than any other physical aspect of reality. We come across several bits of information like the color of an office door, the design of a car seat, the fabric of our dress material, the model of our phone, the pen on the table etc. but we do not record these details as reality.

 We dismiss physical details as peripheral aspects of reality which can be ignored unless there is an element of a feeling attached with the physical detail. To illustrate, if a colleagues’ dress evokes jealousy, we would remember it as jealousy is a feeling. Or, if a car seat evokes great positive feelings of comfort, we would remember it later.

 We remember only those details which create some sensation within us. The sensation generates a negative or positive feeling in the body. We recall odd or striking occurrences of the day because they generate strong feelings within us. Our stress, happiness and memories are largely made only of feelings. Physical details only add depth to the feelings or emotions being recorded.

  In brief, we only record thoughts which have feelings or emotions attached to them and do not record thoughts which do not have feelings attached to them. Memories are emotional data recorded in the brain.

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Success For The Soul is GOOD HEALTH & INNER HAPPINESS

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Medals on the wall, money in the bank and success in the eyes of the world does not help your spirit in feeling loved, peaceful or healthy.

Being successful as conventionally defined only ensures good food, clothing and shelter which cater to the survival needs of the ape/primitive man’s mind but do not satisfy the gratification needs of the advanced human mind. Unlike an animal soul which is happy when it eats, the human soul seeks acknowledgement and is not satisfied with just food.

It has been a general trend in the world to aim at success in the future by aiming at increasing wealth and accolades to feel happy. However, if your success has not increased your feelings of contentment, peacefulness and well-being, you would not be feeling happier irrespective of your money or fame.

Targeting happiness is a different direction of effort than targeting monetary success is. To be happy, you need to invest energies on being healthy, eating sensibly, resting adequately, exercising regularly, meditating for the soul etc . . . . while earning money usually requires leaving priorities of health, sensible eating , balanced exercise and meditation in order to run the rat race .

However, just earning money does not make you feel happy. Just as rats are never happy, those people who run the rat race are never happy but are always restless, anxious and afraid as the rats are, literally. Competitive focus on having more than other people, creates an automatic focus on imbibing energies of others, be it negative or positive energy. The subconscious mind does not understand the distinction between good and bad energies. If you are competitive at the core, your subconscious mind will also increase your health problems along with your wealth /success as it wants to have most of every experience on Earth.

To find happiness with success, it is necessary to balance your energy such that you invest time on being happy and healthy along with meeting needs of survival by earning money.

Balancing monetary success with inner happiness ensures that that the lower chakras of survival are balanced with higher chakras of emotional gratification and the body works in alignment with soul needs.

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HOW TO CREATE A POSITIVE SELF IMAGE

Our identity determines our self-worth, and our ability to ask for happiness Or recieve praise, acknowledgement or love from God or other human beings

A positive self-image can be created by counting our positive qualities instead of focusing on our bad qualities, subconsciously. To feel good about ourselves is necessary to find happiness in our life, as only energies of matching frequencies will stay together.

      Positive energy will increase happiness by feeling positive about self, whereas problems will increase by a constant focus on our disabilities.

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  Initially, a habit of feeling bad about self can be broken by counting ten good things in self as a daily practice.  Changing self-identity to positive increases confidence, and helps in being happy as a part of soul ascension.

      An identity is defined as the way in which we think about ourselves in comparison with the rest of the world. It is our self-image. E.g. I am fat, I am ugly, I am a failure, I am successful, I am average, I am pretty, I am emotional, I am practical, I am confident, I am beautiful, I am intelligent etc.

      Identity depends on internal dominant focus. For example, if a person focuses on a sad feeling, he keeps telling herself/himself constantly - ‘I am sad’. That feeling becomes his/her identity. Overtime, with sustained focus, this person creates a reality where he believes that he is sad/depressed by temperament.

          The negative feeling which we focus on becomes our characteristic. Other people refer to us a sad person or an angry person etc., because we think so about ourselves. Our behavior matches our internal dominant choice of focus. 

 With a negative dominant focus, we notice only that energy within us and around us which confirms our negative self-perspective. Since we pick up information from the world which matches our internal frequency, we are usually able to justify our anguish.

      At the external or conscious level of thinking, we think we have to focus on a problematic feeling because external circumstances force us to, whereas, from an energy perspective, it is the other way round.

          Subconsciously, we perceive the external circumstances as negative because our internal energy balance is negative.

      But our internal energy balance is negative, because at some point in our present or past life, we allowed ourselves to focus extensively on feeling negative. This feeling with the highest energy intensity became our dominant point of internal focus.

     For instance, it is possible that a person became fat at some phase of life, but subsequently, his identity became “I am fat “. Then, his over-weight is maintained because of his subconsciously held negative self-concept of himself. He cannot lose weight because he constantly keeps telling himself that he is fat. He subconsciously believes he is fat and moves his energies such that the internal command is obeyed. His balanced state of being in an over-weight position is maintained by his habits. He wants to exercise less and eat more because his energy focus is that he is fat.

     Change appears threatening because the internal balance is shaken and there is fear of fall. We become habitual to staying with a given set of problems.

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Balancing Body Needs with Spiritual Needs - Attaining Soul Enlightenment

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Happiness and enlightenment cannot arrive by ignoring problems to be happy or by denying that problems exist .Instead of preaching spirituality as being always good and being critical of routines difficulties; happiness arrives by overcoming difficulties with a  positive spirit while participating in the joys of life. Being alive entails consumerism , fashion, love, passion and joys of the creative soul other than work pursuits,  and it is necessary to be aware that facing negative setbacks experienced in family life and relationships, propels life force towards attainment of higher positivefrequencies.

The struggle for happiness, over lifetimes, leads to realization of inner peace and enlightenment . Difficulties create higher wisdom for the spirit who overcomes problems with optimism, hope and feeling peaceful than brooding over the negative setbacks.

Soul ascension to happiness is a process of acquisition and detachment wherein you acquire strength through worldly means to climb the next step on the ladder of ascension ; but detach from the lower ladder  of bad health, deprivation or lack of peace for moving onwards to a higher soul frequency.

Enlightenment is a process which is attained after a  spirit feels fulfilled , loved and acquires peacefulness by choice. Hence, to be happy and emotionally balanced, it is necessary to balance the need to spend on passions with the art of practicing detachment than completely force detachment as punishment on self. As research has proved through applied behavior analysis, positive reinforcement and intermittent rewarding gets better work done from children than negative reinforcement or punishment. The same theory applies while training the self to achieve more positivity . Rewarding the soul and praising small achievements helps more than depriving the self, as was the traditional route to enlightenment .

The balancing of consumerism with spiritualism and detachment leads to inner feelings of peace  while forcing hunger/ emptiness on self leads to  feelings of negativity and helplessness . As contrasted with greed which is akin to over-eating,  disciplined indulgence takes a soul closer to being happier for matching higher positive frequencies of the Creator .

While spiritualism helps you remain detached from over eating /over indulgence, the process of materialism helps you appreciate all that which is created by other souls seeking to rise with positive vibrations.On the ladder of ascension to happiness, it is necessary to spread happiness than compete to be happier than others .

Thus , the process of ascension to enlightenment has to be balanced with family life & Earth’s responsibilities so that you can appreciate and encourage the creative work of other rays of THE CREATOR while moving up to a high positive frequency . Ascension happens when your frequencies completely agree and merge with the creative consciousness, thus brightening the light and knowledge of the Creator.

The movement from negative thinking to positive thinking involves a state of losing balance at a lower negative state of being;and rebuilding balance, at a higher vibration which may be less grounded /secure than a negative, tense balance but is closer to ascension .

TIME & METHOD OF PRAYING DO NOT CONNECT YOU TO GOD

Only the feeling of praying correctly such that you are reaching God, connects you to the vibrations of God... Just following a correct time or rituals only leads to anxiety and sickness of different types... If you need healing, you have to asks for it with purity that you will receive it and then, invest the money or energy required even if the sacrifice is heavy for you . However, just keeping a good time or following an exact method of praying are only games of the mind as God lives in a no space, no time zone. 

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The wrong interpretations of scriptures are so rigid that they prevent a person from praying because the methodology or time is not correct. Instead of helping a soul in evolving, such rigid parameters block the soul’s connection to God.

God represents love, responsibility and justice for all. God does not force you to follow any rule.

Rules are made for your convenience and have to be broken for your convenience just as old structures have to be broken so that new ones can take their place. Rules and rituals which create tension have to be dissolved and replaced with habits which increase inner happiness and harmonize the soul with the body’s needs.

For example, God does not ask you to get up early to pray or work because in modern times, early mornings no longer represent freedom of space. The idea of getting up early in the morning was to be free of disturbances but if a person has not slept well at night, his mind cannot feel at ease in early morning hours. To be positive, it is more important to clear the mind of debris through sleeping well so that the person can get up relaxed and meditate when his mind is clear. With evolving needs, meditation or prayers can be done at all times of the day, on all days. The feeling which passes as energy to God has to be positive even if the prayer holds only for a moment in time. The prayer is effective when it is not constricted by other thoughts like doubts, sadness and worries which pass on as negative energy waves from other people around and block the clear passage to God.

In fact, early morning hours are good for connection to pure celestial light of God if the person imagines the connectivity while being secluded from the world. Lying down helps to create a semi-drowsy state for the mind and activating prayers’ vibrations, while sleeping helps to connect to God in alternate realms, which help in deep healing for the soul. Early morning is also good for astral travel to celestial realms. Self Hypnosis , when applied for healing, applies the same state of concentration by inducing a semi drowsy trance state at any time of the day .

Every practice has a positive intention which has to be imbibed and the rigidity of the ritual discarded as inflexibility creates problems in being able to update the inner subconscious date base with changing times. Rules have to change to find better ways to connect to spiritual realms and get guidance from the positive spirit guides.

Conventional meditation with spine erect helps in developing inner strength while meditation in relaxed postures helps in receiving intuitions and releasing anxieties created by performance pressures. Being thoughtless while meditating helps to improve peace in self and surroundings while praying and chanting create positive vibrations if accompanied with thoughtless state of mind and faith in divine wisdom.

EMOTIONS ARE INSTRUCTIONS TO YOUR BODY ( Energy In Motion )

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This blog is an excerpt from my book A Course In Emotional Management ( edited version 5 ) Your Emotions are Instructions given by your conscious mind to your body

The subconscious mind operates on instructions which pass as electric signals from the conscious mind released through the emotions being focused upon .

 The subconscious mind  is the link between the conscious mind and the soul. 

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Metaphorically, the subconscious mind is like the crew of the ship while the conscious mind is the captain and the soul is the owner of the ship. The soul decides why and where the ship has to go viz.  the priorities of life and the energy frequency of the destination where the person has to reach. The conscious mind thinks on how to take the ship to where it has to reach and the subconscious mind organizes the functions.

The subconscious mind follows the directions of the conscious mind, literally without any questions asked.

The crew of the ship follows the orders of the captain blindly without trying to judge whether he is right or wrong.  Similarly, the subconscious mind follows the feelings focused upon by the conscious mind, as instructions.

The subconscious mind produces in the body exactly the feelings which the person focuses on by conscious choice, as physical manifestations, without caring about whether the instructions produce good health or bad health for the person.

The conscious mind remains happy and the body remains healthy if the person follows the chosen priorities as set by the soul. However, the person makes choices in alignment with the soul’s purpose of life, when the body, mind and soul are aligned.

If the soul, body and mind are not aligned; the person feels lost in track, sick and anxious. Non-aligned decision-making is akin to the owner, driver and engine of the car preparing to go in different directions. In ideal conditions as conceived on heaven, the soul makes priorities of life in a life plan designed before incarnation. The mind desires those priorities to be achieved as ambitions in life and the body helps the mind take action to achieve its pre-set priorities. 

On Earth, the ideal conditions get diluted by practical considerations like society’s expectations, parents’ ideologies, school imbibed cult, work demands etc. which influence adult criterion of financial security or conventional success. If the mind gets in the trap of conditioning on Earth and starts taking over ambitions of society or other people as its own, it starts moving away from its own soul destination. Imitation becomes a greater focus than original thinking. The mind of a person who does not follow his own soul plan remains unhappy and anxious as s/he knows inwardly that the path is lost.

 To move back to being happy, the soul plan has to be followed all over again even if you are far from the planned path.

 For moving back on the soul plan, the conscious mind has to restart attuning with the subconscious mind. There is a slow, consistent rise in happiness and peace of mind as you move back on the soul path from a far away destination. The feelings of being lost slowly subside and your health improves along with a rise in self-confidence.

However, if anxieties continue, it means that you are not attempting to move back on your soul plan and are still in the trap of negative thinking which rules over mass education on Earth.  

A test of whether you are on the soul plan or not is your feeling of well-being and in good health. If there are depressions and diseases in the body, it means that the soul, mind and body are not aligned and the conscious mind has to become aware of its routine thinking to change its priorities of life again and move back to feeling positive as an inner focus.

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