WHERE SHOULD WE LOOK FOR MANIFESTATION?
In my last blog I talked about our duality and I would like to continue in that vein this week. Because we see ourselves as unconnected to the Divine, Universal Consciousness, Creative Energy, whatever you wish to call it; we feel we have to look outside ourselves for assistance in this area. We look to literature and teachers, guides and gurus for help and we forget that we are the experts of us. Just because we are learning, growing and changing constantly does not mean that anyone knows us better than we do.
We are our greatest source of wisdom and source of guidance. We are; you are the expert of you. You created the ‘you’ that you are now and the ‘you’ that you are creating, the ‘you’ that you will become in the future. You know what needs to be let go, what needs to be strengthened, what needs to be relearned, turned around and changed. You know what you need to manifest, how big/small, how far reaching, whether it will honor your deepest and greatest truths, your core values. No one outside your self can know these things or guide you to them; you are the only one who can do that. You are your designer and creator, director and guide.
You can read and listen to those around you for inspiration but all the while you must pay attention to what resonates within you. Should you follow another person’s path? You may try if you like but do it with awareness. Be aware that as they pass along their path, the person you are following changes it so that you are not following the exact path they followed. And, as you pass along it, you will change it in your way.
You will manifest what you create inside your innermost being. If/when you reconnect to your inner most self, your inner most truth and love, you become free of the doctrines, designs and dogmas of others. You are free at your highest level to honor your truest being to embrace your inner light and let it shine out in a way that only you can. Then, you will manifest, from within the wonderful being that is you, just exactly what you truly desire.
Bright Blessings, Chessie
©Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved
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Showing posts with label core values. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
QUESTIONS FROM OUR INNER CRITIC
QUESTIONS FROM OUR INNER CRITIC
I was recently asked these thought provoking questions by a friend of mine,”How do you decide where to draw your line in the sand of what you will and won’t do, will and won’t go? How do you stick to those boundaries?
After a bit of thought I realized that I go by my guidance and core values. Now to some of you these words are old friends and for some they are new concepts so I will explain. Your core values are those values that you hold in the very center of you, in that special place where the hard shining truth of who and what you truly are; that place where no one goes but you. Those values are the ones that you will always uphold, the ones you will never forsake or allow others to push you across. They are different for each of us and if you have not decided what yours are I strongly suggest that you do so. Like the song says, ”You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything…”
Guidance is the still small voice that we often totally disregard. Over the years of listening to others in our lives that we feel know more than we do, our voice of guidance has been drowned out because it is so quiet and the world is so loud. Meditation is one of the ways we learn how to listen again. Guidance will never lead us in the wrong direction once we learn to hear and understand.
My friends’ next question was, “What about in times of great change?”
My answer was the same. This is not an easy answer and it came after a lifetime of doubting myself and living my life by committee. You see, we are taught to listen to the village that raises us and to stop listening to our ‘self’ (I am talking about our instincts) as well as our ‘Self’ (here I refer to our higher spiritual voices, the ones who truly know the answers) and listen to the people by whom we are surrounded. The ones who want us to think and feel the way that they do so that they are comfortable in their status quo. When we begin to follow our true path(s), we have the tendency to upset those around us who don’t want to be around growth.
The next thing she told me was that she tended to doubt herself too much and think too much. She felt that she is learning patience.
My response to this is, the reason we do this to ourselves is, again, that committee that always seems to know more about how we should be feeling and what we should be doing than we, who are living our life know about it. They mean well but their constant input creates doubt and the tendency to over think everything. The other side of this coin is that the constant input triggers our ‘shut down’ mode and we don’t listen to any thing from any where and we stumble around in ignorance, sometimes getting it right but, most of the time making the same mistakes over and over again. In order to break this cycle we need to master the virtues of patience, the ability to let go, the ability to listen and believe in your self and your guidance.
She then told me that her problem is her need to learn to believe; to build my own faith. She told me that she feels that it’s happening slowly.
I know all of you have heard the adage that “Seeing is believing.” And sometimes this is the case BUT, when you get into the higher levels of spirit and vibration (which is where this type of questioning occurs) you find that to believe is to see. Trust me when I tell you that the journey is rough because we are stubborn and don’t (at first) want to let go of those things we think we know, but as we come to truly understand and learn how to listen to our innate core values and guidance you will find that it is so worth the effort.
Happy growth and Bright Blessings,
Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved
I was recently asked these thought provoking questions by a friend of mine,”How do you decide where to draw your line in the sand of what you will and won’t do, will and won’t go? How do you stick to those boundaries?
After a bit of thought I realized that I go by my guidance and core values. Now to some of you these words are old friends and for some they are new concepts so I will explain. Your core values are those values that you hold in the very center of you, in that special place where the hard shining truth of who and what you truly are; that place where no one goes but you. Those values are the ones that you will always uphold, the ones you will never forsake or allow others to push you across. They are different for each of us and if you have not decided what yours are I strongly suggest that you do so. Like the song says, ”You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything…”
Guidance is the still small voice that we often totally disregard. Over the years of listening to others in our lives that we feel know more than we do, our voice of guidance has been drowned out because it is so quiet and the world is so loud. Meditation is one of the ways we learn how to listen again. Guidance will never lead us in the wrong direction once we learn to hear and understand.
My friends’ next question was, “What about in times of great change?”
My answer was the same. This is not an easy answer and it came after a lifetime of doubting myself and living my life by committee. You see, we are taught to listen to the village that raises us and to stop listening to our ‘self’ (I am talking about our instincts) as well as our ‘Self’ (here I refer to our higher spiritual voices, the ones who truly know the answers) and listen to the people by whom we are surrounded. The ones who want us to think and feel the way that they do so that they are comfortable in their status quo. When we begin to follow our true path(s), we have the tendency to upset those around us who don’t want to be around growth.
The next thing she told me was that she tended to doubt herself too much and think too much. She felt that she is learning patience.
My response to this is, the reason we do this to ourselves is, again, that committee that always seems to know more about how we should be feeling and what we should be doing than we, who are living our life know about it. They mean well but their constant input creates doubt and the tendency to over think everything. The other side of this coin is that the constant input triggers our ‘shut down’ mode and we don’t listen to any thing from any where and we stumble around in ignorance, sometimes getting it right but, most of the time making the same mistakes over and over again. In order to break this cycle we need to master the virtues of patience, the ability to let go, the ability to listen and believe in your self and your guidance.
She then told me that her problem is her need to learn to believe; to build my own faith. She told me that she feels that it’s happening slowly.
I know all of you have heard the adage that “Seeing is believing.” And sometimes this is the case BUT, when you get into the higher levels of spirit and vibration (which is where this type of questioning occurs) you find that to believe is to see. Trust me when I tell you that the journey is rough because we are stubborn and don’t (at first) want to let go of those things we think we know, but as we come to truly understand and learn how to listen to our innate core values and guidance you will find that it is so worth the effort.
Happy growth and Bright Blessings,
Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2011, all rights reserved
Sunday, September 19, 2010
I LOVE THIS PERSON BUT WHERE DO THEIR ACCUSATIONS COME FROM?
I LOVE THIS PERSON BUT WHERE DO THEIR ACCUSATIONS COME FROM?
Those of you who have taken Evolution of Self; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance are familiar with the terms, “core values”, “life experiences” and “mind-stream ©”. These are imbedded, deeply seated programs that run under every action you take and every idea or perception that you have about the world and the people around you. All of these reactions are filtered through your programs. People will respond from these two bases of operation every time; the higher the stress, the closer to this basis ones reactions are.
The more enlightened person has gone within and examined their personal programming and taken the proper steps to correct what they can and rise above what they can not. The less enlightened person continues to operate from a less evolved standpoint.
Ones core values are the “lines you will not cross or tolerate”; lying, stealing, murder, judgment and the like. Every one has them in differing degrees but not everyone adheres to them in all situations. The challenge is how high you set your personal bar and how often you choose to limbo under it. The more enlightened, higher vibrational a person, the truer they will be to these core values and the less they will accept lowered values in those around them. I am not speaking of judgment here; I mean that they will just not be around those who are not coming from a like starting point.
For those who have not yet done the work to better themselves, you will find that they are either living with and operating from either denial or ignorance. If they are coming from denial, they will more likely than not, wish to stay where they are. This comes from “the demon you know” thought process. Humans get comfortable with the situation in which they find themselves most often and choosing to see the need for change is scary and uncomfortable. Stepping out of ones comfort zone into the unknown is often so frightening as to be paralyzing. Once it is realized that “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.” (Edward Teller) you will be able to find the strength and faith in yourself to move away from the pain and toward growth, positivity and enlightenment. Denial is a tough nut to crack and best done from the INSIDE realization that something is wrong and feeling the need to WANT to change. Until the person comes to this understanding within themselves, trying to ‘change them’ or ‘show them ‘the error of their ways’ is frustrating, futile and self defeating and it really annoys them.
If on the other hand the person in question is coming from a platform of ignorance; they will more than likely see (eventually) where their work needs to begin. This dawning usually comes (most of the time slowly but each persons time-table is different) from the observation of those around them who are making life work. The ignorance begins to lift and the person begins to question their place in the scheme of things and find their answers; which of course leads to more questions…more answers…more questions… etc. but that is how growth and waking up works.
Life experiences are what any person has lived through. They are the lessons each person learns (or doesn’t) about the results they got from the choices that they have made throughout their respective life time. These experiences color a persons feelings, ideas and perceptions about everything on many levels. As with anything else, these can be changed for the person’s betterment and for the greater good should the person choose to do so. The awareness of the fact that one always has choices is what brings on the desire to want to choose to change and that depends upon ones mind-stream©. If the person lives with and enjoys the perceived benefits of victim think, chances are they will not want to choose change. Once you are aware that you make your own destiny, you are either freed or you run and hide. Hiding from the truth of a situation is never the right choice. If you can learn to look for solutions rather than problems, your life will be awesome!
Now ones “mind-stream”© refers to the path ones thought processes generally run. If a person bases their existence on lying to get by, that person thinks every one lies and therefore they project that onto the world so they trust no one. The person who steals, cheats, makes excuses, slacks, or any other thing one can accuse another of is doing works the same way; abuse begets abuse and mind-set begets mind-set. If, however (once again at the risk of repeating my self) you have chosen to go within and examine and redirect your mind-stream so that you have changed these perceptions of the world and understand all of these human short comings you see that there are things and people you don’t need to try and fix; you are the only one you can control. The mature, enlightened individual can and does allow others and things to just be what they are.
Your best help for humanity is to show all those around you a life well lived and one that is working. As my Mother used to say, “Tend to your knitting and others will tend to theirs or they won’t. If you are busy doing the right thing, you will spread that behavior to those watching you.”
Bright Blessings, Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2010, all rights reserved
Those of you who have taken Evolution of Self; Journey into Body, Mind, Spirit Balance are familiar with the terms, “core values”, “life experiences” and “mind-stream ©”. These are imbedded, deeply seated programs that run under every action you take and every idea or perception that you have about the world and the people around you. All of these reactions are filtered through your programs. People will respond from these two bases of operation every time; the higher the stress, the closer to this basis ones reactions are.
The more enlightened person has gone within and examined their personal programming and taken the proper steps to correct what they can and rise above what they can not. The less enlightened person continues to operate from a less evolved standpoint.
Ones core values are the “lines you will not cross or tolerate”; lying, stealing, murder, judgment and the like. Every one has them in differing degrees but not everyone adheres to them in all situations. The challenge is how high you set your personal bar and how often you choose to limbo under it. The more enlightened, higher vibrational a person, the truer they will be to these core values and the less they will accept lowered values in those around them. I am not speaking of judgment here; I mean that they will just not be around those who are not coming from a like starting point.
For those who have not yet done the work to better themselves, you will find that they are either living with and operating from either denial or ignorance. If they are coming from denial, they will more likely than not, wish to stay where they are. This comes from “the demon you know” thought process. Humans get comfortable with the situation in which they find themselves most often and choosing to see the need for change is scary and uncomfortable. Stepping out of ones comfort zone into the unknown is often so frightening as to be paralyzing. Once it is realized that “When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.” (Edward Teller) you will be able to find the strength and faith in yourself to move away from the pain and toward growth, positivity and enlightenment. Denial is a tough nut to crack and best done from the INSIDE realization that something is wrong and feeling the need to WANT to change. Until the person comes to this understanding within themselves, trying to ‘change them’ or ‘show them ‘the error of their ways’ is frustrating, futile and self defeating and it really annoys them.
If on the other hand the person in question is coming from a platform of ignorance; they will more than likely see (eventually) where their work needs to begin. This dawning usually comes (most of the time slowly but each persons time-table is different) from the observation of those around them who are making life work. The ignorance begins to lift and the person begins to question their place in the scheme of things and find their answers; which of course leads to more questions…more answers…more questions… etc. but that is how growth and waking up works.
Life experiences are what any person has lived through. They are the lessons each person learns (or doesn’t) about the results they got from the choices that they have made throughout their respective life time. These experiences color a persons feelings, ideas and perceptions about everything on many levels. As with anything else, these can be changed for the person’s betterment and for the greater good should the person choose to do so. The awareness of the fact that one always has choices is what brings on the desire to want to choose to change and that depends upon ones mind-stream©. If the person lives with and enjoys the perceived benefits of victim think, chances are they will not want to choose change. Once you are aware that you make your own destiny, you are either freed or you run and hide. Hiding from the truth of a situation is never the right choice. If you can learn to look for solutions rather than problems, your life will be awesome!
Now ones “mind-stream”© refers to the path ones thought processes generally run. If a person bases their existence on lying to get by, that person thinks every one lies and therefore they project that onto the world so they trust no one. The person who steals, cheats, makes excuses, slacks, or any other thing one can accuse another of is doing works the same way; abuse begets abuse and mind-set begets mind-set. If, however (once again at the risk of repeating my self) you have chosen to go within and examine and redirect your mind-stream so that you have changed these perceptions of the world and understand all of these human short comings you see that there are things and people you don’t need to try and fix; you are the only one you can control. The mature, enlightened individual can and does allow others and things to just be what they are.
Your best help for humanity is to show all those around you a life well lived and one that is working. As my Mother used to say, “Tend to your knitting and others will tend to theirs or they won’t. If you are busy doing the right thing, you will spread that behavior to those watching you.”
Bright Blessings, Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2010, all rights reserved
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