PERSONAL AWARENESS.
This is a psychological analysis, which we can use ourselves,
or with the help of a friend, to find out exactly, why we are,
who we are.
Our survival instinct, is an amazing thing, but sometimes,
can work against us, by producing fear, panic and similar
violent or uncontrollable urges, which change the normal
way, that we behave.
Certain experiences, from the past, can alter the way we
think. Our brain can program us to react, when we hear certain
noises, smell certain odours, taste certain tastes, see shadows,
sense a vibration or even feel a breeze. If we have been stung
by a wasp, we may become nervous, when we see or hear a wasp.
Sometimes simple fears, can interfere, with our efficiency, as a
human being and it may be useful to understand, just how we
can remove these fears.
The simplest way of removing fear, is to tell an understanding
friend about your problem, but not just once, but over and over
again, until you feel silly and start laughing. The moment you
start laughing, is the moment, that you become cured and your
fear or pain, will disappear. In severe circumstances, this kind of
therapy, can cause nightmares. This is because, our subconscious
minds are trying to resist the change, that we are creating, by this
very simple, but nevertheless effective therapy.
I believe the recommended Vitamin for stopping these Nightmares
is Vitamin B1, but please check, whether or not this is suitable for you,
because it can clash with certain medications. Some Herbal remedies
may also work to prevent nightmares
Here is a link to a video, which refers to a kind of therapy produced
by L Ron Hubbard, which he calls Dianetics. Dianetics refers to the
part of our mind, that stores these messages, as our Reactive Mind :
http://www.dianetics.org/#/videos
Here is a link to the PDF of The Dianetics Book :
http://www.scientology-london.com/resources/Dianetics_The_Modern_Science_Of_Mental_Health.pdf
There is quite a lot of information here, about the reconditioning of your mind.
For the rest of my Article, I will be using a Book for reference. The Book is called :
“ACCEPT THIS GIFT” and has been edited by Frances Vaughan and Roger Walsh.
These selections have come from :
“A COURSE IN MIRACLES”.
So I am now going to transfer some of this information to you.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
The ego is only an idea and not a fact.
The Course maintains that we have forgotten our true identities as creators
of the dream, and constructed in its place a false self concept, the ego. The
ego sees itself as a victim of the world, confined to the body, alone and
separated from others, the universe, and God. To awaken from the dream
means recognising the illusory nature of this constricted self-concept and
perceiving the body, not as a means of grasping at the fleeting pleasures of
the world or as a prison enclosing the Self, but as an instrument for learning
and communication.
BODY.
The body is a limit. Who would seek for freedom in a body, looks for it where
it cannot be found. To accept the limits of a body, is to impose these limits on
each brother whom you see. For you must see him as you see yourself. The
mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself in a body, firmly tied to it
and sheltered by its presence. The body can but serve your purpose. As you
look on it, so will it seem to be. Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in
all its forms, wherever it occurs. It would persuade the Holy Son of God, he is a
body, born in what he must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what
it orders him to feel. The body is a fence, the Son of God imagines he has built,
to separate parts of his Self from other parts. To see a body as anything except
a means of communication is to limit your mind and to hurt yourself. Sickness
is anger taken out upon the body, so that it will suffer pain. Healing is the result
of using the body solely for communication. Forgiveness lets the body be perceived
as what it is : a simple teaching aid, to be laid by, when learning is complete. When
the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it, as a means of
getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
thoughts will be as free as God’s. Who transcends the body has transcended
limitation.
I am not a body, I am free. For I am as God created me.
EGO.
The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. The ego is your belief.
The ego is a confusion in identification. This fragment of your mind
is such a tiny part of it that, could you but appreciate the whole,
you would see instantly that it is like the smallest sunbeam to the
Sun, or like the faintest ripple on the surface of the Ocean. In its
amazing arrogance, this tiny sunbeam has decided that it is the Sun ;
this almost imperceptible ripple hails itself as the Ocean. Think how
alone and frightened is this little thought, this infinitesimal illusion,
holding itself apart against the Universe. Do not accept this little,
fenced off aspect as yourself. The Sun and Ocean are as nothing
beside what you are. Do not be afraid of the ego. It depends on
your mind, and as you made it by believing it, so you can dispel it
by withdrawing belief from it. Only your allegiance to it gives the
ego any power over you. The distractions of ego may seem to
interfere with your learning but the ego has no power to distract
you unless you give it the power to do so.
You must have noticed an outstanding characteristic of every end that
the ego has accepted as its own. When you have achieved it, it has not
satisfied you. That is why the ego is forced to shift ceaselessly from one
goal to another, so that you will continue to hope it can yet offer you
something. To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule the mind. No one
can judge the ego truly. Yet when two or more join together in searching
for the truth, the ego can no longer defend its lack of content. Our union
is therefore the way to renounce the ego in you. The truth in both of us
is beyond the ego. You believe that without the ego all would be chaos.
Yet I assure you that without the ego all would be love.
If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may call ; if you will
not accept its pretty gifts that give you nothing that you really want ; if you
will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is ; then
you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness,
and completely certain in its messages.
SELF-CONCEPT
What you think you are is a belief to be undone. The “Self” that needs
protection is not real. Every response you make is determined by what
you think you are, and what you want to be is what you think you are.
What you want to be, then, must determine every response that you
make. All things you seek to make your value greater in your sight limit
you further, hide your worth from you and add another bar across the
door that leads to true awareness of your Self. The concept of the Self
stands like a shield, and hides it from your sight. All things you see are
images, because you look on them as through a barrier that dims your
sight and warps your vision, so that you behold nothing with clarity.
Your concept of the World depends on your concept of the Self. And
both would go, if either one were ever raised to doubt.
I will accept the truth of who I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.
I have covered the part of this book, under the heading of, “MISTAKEN IDENTITY”.
Cheers !! Ray.
