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UNAWARENESS, EGO THINKING, AND CHILDREN:
It is in our childhood that the most significant aspects of our identities are formed, and children need to be taught of their goodness, their greatness, their light. Children do not need the teaching of confused ego thinking impressed upon them. Children need to be taught of their spiritual connections with life and the universe. They need to be taught the concept of Unconditional Love. They need to understand and recognise the futility of fear based ways of thinking and acting, and the concept of compassion and understanding. They need to be taught of the oneness of all people and the need for Patience, Tolerance, and Sympathy.
FEEL YOUR FEELINGS:
As you develop an awareness of emotional responses to situations that come your way, you give yourself a chance for freedom from future pain. By acknowledging the emotion that you feel in "THE NOW", you can release the energy that is built up inside you by expressing what you are feeling. When you have the need to cry, there is a part of you that is wanting to work for your good. Sometimes we have felt the weight of frustration's and at one time or another we have all said, "I want to SCREAM!". When you think this way, your instinct is supplying you with a most efficient way of releasing this energy. Many times though, a desire to scream gets held back, but our natural desire will still maintain itself.
Sometimes there is a need for physical release of emotion. The need to scream was a good example. We can also burn off energy at the Gym; We can pour our energies into our work; We can have tender and fulfilling sexual experiences. All these can serve you for your good as you learn to know that it's alright to be your self.
Can you recall a time where you might have been prompted into bouts of laughter, but had to withhold your outbursts because you may not have been in the right place?
We know that to withhold an extreme desire to laugh can bring on a great deal of discomfort, but eventually that laughter must come out. When we find a suitable place and re-live the situation, the laughter bellows out of us and we then feel a contentment afterwards. The energy was still within and needed to be expressed, but if we were to think of that funny situation at some other time, we may raise a smile, but we most probably won't laugh as we did the first time. The power of the joke is diminished. We have let out the energy from within; we feel good. We are restored to a balanced state.
This very same principle applies to sorrow and other emotions. When tears, grief and other emotions are truly given the freedom to be expressed, the next time we are prompted to think of that sad situation, we are not returned to the same level of sorrow as we first experienced. We have cried the tears that had to be cried. The power of the sadness is diminished. We have let out the energy from within; we feel good. Again, we are in a state of balance.
For all the emotions that we feel in our lives, there are those which we could say are 'for' and 'against' nature. There is an anger which is in accordance with nature, and an anger which is against nature. There are fears which are for and against nature, there are feelings that bring pleasure which are for and against nature.
We might be angry when we hear of child brutality close to home, or in another light we could be angry if someone were to make a noise while we're trying to watch the football on the television. Clearly the correctness in each of these situation needs no further explanation to illustrate this concept. From this, we must then see why we feel as we do and whether or not it is highlighting an area which needs change, or whether we are expressing an emotion which is in tune with our circumstance.
Feel your feelings; don't deny your humanness by denying what you feel. Acknowledge the emotion that you feel and experience it. It is a real part of you. If there is ongoing conflict within you, be kind to yourself and acknowledge that there is a part of you that needs understanding. Inner conflict is not a state of being that is natural to the True Self. When there is conflict, there is fear. Where there is fear, there is work to be done. Denial of emotion is to maintain a lack of unity with yourself. Your purpose is to become whole and you WILL become whole.
Those who have gone through a traumatic experience where they are left with no conscious memory of an incident, are carrying energies that are unresolved. Emotional energy requiring expression to release unconscious tension will then manifest itself in persistent patterns of behavior. The sad thing about this situation is that the core issues are hidden and unknown, and the energy expressed from unconscious tension can leave a person perplexed as to their behavior. Further complications then come into their life through images of low self esteem, shame, guilt and unworthiness. These continued feelings bring a pain which the Ego then becomes duty bound to try and suppress. The one in pain seeks gratification to relieve sorrow; remorse can then be felt later, and a cycle then becomes complete, yet never ending.
Such insights into the unavoidable releases that people suffer, enable us to come to understandings of peoples behavior which they, and even ourselves, could otherwise have difficulty in comprehending. Through unconditional Love, we transcend the unknown quantity in ourselves and others, and our Love shines through our own being to pierce the shadows that hide the Love that is in all of us. When we believe in someone whether they be stranger, friend, or even someone who means so very much to us; regardless of what they've done, we are giving them a chance to believe in themselves again. Since unconditional Love carries no demands, the one in need is able to feel the truth in the person that cares. That truth then allows them to freely and peacefully choose to accept the offering of a healing through Love and friendship.
Let your truth begin to heal you. Your truth is your freedom, and in your truth is your Love. In your Love is your Life, your future and your dreams. In your own Love, is the direction of the Love that you've always been searching for.
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