Consider that there is no such thing as constructive criticism, even of ourselves. Have you considered that when we are self criticizing we are judging and afraid that we are not good enough to fit in or be loved? And often we feel if we self criticize it is justified because others are going to criticize us so why not jump the gun?
We all do it; we all criticize, yet we are in a process of realizing that none of us are perfect and we all have our habits ….. we all have been programmed to adhere to established patterns of behaviors.
Yet, we can pause and consider the temptation to criticize, then listen to our Inner Voice, our Higher Self, to guide us. A sincere intent to improve ourselves benefits us, but to criticize another or ourselves in an attempt to show we are better is not. It’s destructive rather than constructive.
Criticism is directed by fear and can result in anxiety, guilt, and even self-hatred. Yet, the temptation is just a temporary distraction from Self Love and compassion for all of us. And we can realize this.
To realize that we all are tempted is the beginning of having compassion for ourselves. And ….. that compassion rises our level of consciousness to encompass Acceptance, Understanding and Love for ourselves, for others and all Beings. And certainly increases our happiness!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Only Truth will set us Free. Lies are bonds woven from all kinds of evil elements.”
Eugene Fersen, Aphorisms of The Lightbearer, page 127.
Thinking is an addictive distraction, especially when we have an intent to quiet the mind, to mediate and come into your Real Self. We tend to think about things we try to avoid or repress when we get quiet and listen to ourselves. Things like that chocolate we’re missing, the sexual pleasures we’re missing, and the many, many solutions to worries we’re missing.
It’s normal for us all. That’s important to remember when the guilt and the hurt of it all begins to further distract us. Yet, we can free yourselves with practice.
Just keep being conscious and aware of the temptation to be distracted. Just observe, be the watcher of the thinker without judgment. And amazingly, in that awareness of the temptation to be distracted, you have entered a meditation of observation. Whereas, if you we unaware of being distracted then one thought leads to another. And you can circle there.
Let compassionate Love lead you deeper into Relaxation and Silence. Pause and take some deep breathes, being conscious of breathing in Universal Life Energy. Let compassion for yourself, lead to compassion for others and for all Beings. And in this practice you can release, release and rise in consciousness above temptation into Love, Peace and Joy.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“We should try to eliminate the undesirable traits of our subconsciousness by becoming conscious through living FourSquare. It is a stupendous task for the whole of Humanity.”
Eugene Fersen, Aphorisms of The Lightbearer, page 31.
We all suffer, and for those of us on a conscious spiritual journey we may suffer emotionally more than anything. As we travel along gaining more and more experiences, there is the process of learning from our mistakes. And this can cause the greatest emotional suffering, yet it is part of the human growth process. The good news is that we can rise above it.
There are egotistic challenges …
Like guilt, self-righteousness, pride and frustration. Impatience is one that I repeat and I suffer emotionally from with guilt, resentment and even self hatred. Sometimes it seems to be an endless dark, painful tunnel of different negative traits! Yet there is Light of hope and inspiration to continue to fight for Freedom.
One thing egotistic challenges teach us is to be more conscious, alert and aware of temptations that surface. And that they should be faced, rather than pushed down again only to resurface stronger than ever. Better to face and release now than let them fester and grow.
And if we ignore feelings and dealing with trauma and traits that may have initially happened in childhood, we cause ourselves more trauma unknowingly. In childhood if we didn’t have help with trauma, we probably suppressed our emotions, which grew unnoticed. We were naive.
So when we become stressed in our daily life; feeling bothersome feelings like anxiety we may try to soothe or numb ourselves by looking for comfort in overindulgence in unhelpful matters, like over eating, porn, drugs.
Better to face negative emotions and past memories of trauma, rather than continuing to be naive, so we can come to the present moment fully. And feel the uncomfortable emotions and consciously choose to let them go ….. then embrace those emotions that are uplifting. It’s our choice, after all!
The fight for Freedom
Some may encourage us to be humble and forgiving to overcome negative traits, Yet, humility haves connotations and definitions of lowliness and unworthiness. Forgiveness has connotations and definitions of indulging in excuses for wrong doing, or ignoring negativity.
I’ve found that being accepting and compassionate are fitting and accurate. When we can accept our and others egotistic fallibilities as being human we can give up, that is release, the obsession with “being right!”
Self-honesty requires courage. And courage lifts us consciously; it helps us recognize negative patterns of resentment and condemnation without getting all involved and stuck, then feeling guilty about it.
We can be compassionate, see our human fallibility and be willing to do something about it, by releasing it, letting it pass us by. This is being lead by Unconditional Love.
We may initially feel the pain of an egotistic trait or traumatic memory. In fact the pain points to what needs awareness and healing. Sure, self defensiveness may creep up too!
Yet, those egotistic constricts are released when we let them pass us by. And we are able to rise above the pain into understanding, optimism and gratitude.
I become so grateful for becoming aware of different painful emotions …. temptations that where under the surface and have been around a long, long time stemming from childhood trauma.
We can face dark memories and emotions stemming from trauma and be protected. You have the help, and we all do, of The Great Law through Higher Consciousness, with Universal Life Energy as the constant inspiring Source of Power and Unconditional Love. Such Love is our True protection. We merely have to be compassionate and willing to make the Mental Contact with Universal Life Energy.
Rise above
It seems obvious that with more self-honesty and release of negative temptations we become less vulnerable to self condemnation and creating more trauma of fearful traits of feeling like a victim, self-hatred and escape-ism.
With acceptance, compassion and release we rise above the emotional pain. And with gracious and compassionate attitudes like alert awareness and optimistic gratitude, we can rise in consciousness.
We can align with our natural state of happiness, Joy, Love and Harmony. Yet, we must be brave!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Superconsciousness, as the connecting link between the humanly conscious You and the complete real YOU, will be definitely assigned its place in your comprehension.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 283.
All of us value self-reliance and freedom. Even children exercise their ability to make their own decisions and establish independence. And as adults we continue daily efforts for our freedom, strength and happiness.
Ultimately our efforts are to awaken to the reality of Eternal Existence as Spiritual Beings. Spiritual awareness can come to those of us that focus our energies in a clearcut, concentrated spiritual direction.
And there are some fundamental steps that builds the pyramid of our life to the peak of Spirit. All of these steps may start on the mental level, but they permeate all levels, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.
Bring your mental focus within yourself, taking some deep, slow breathes and becoming calm and present in the moment. Relax the body, gradually let any circling of monkey chatter thinking go quiet. That’s when we can allow ourselves to become conscious of profound peace within.
Second Step
The second step is to become aware of the witness within without judgments and labels. In this step we deliberately choose to step into a higher conscious frequency. It’s simple.
Pause, become silent and conscious of the witness within. And be compassionate. Courageously face the challenge of the ego with all its obstinate thoughts and emotions with a compassionate Heart and Deep Love. Be willing to accept yourself and the moment with Understanding and Inspirational Harmony.
Negate any thought or emotion that does not serve the better good, throwing it in a mental trashcan. Then purposefully choose higher levels of consciousness like optimism, understanding, trust and love.
the 3rd step
The third step is to become aware of something greater than ourselves, of an unknown mysterious presence. And we can do this very easily when we allow it.
We all experience the Great Causeless Cause Itself within us as life. That Power outside of ourselves is known as Universal Life Energy. And it is the very foundation and essence of All ….. Matter, Mind, Emotion and Spirit.
Because of pride, impatience and conceit we willfully broke our conscious connection with the Source of All Power in our efforts to becomes self-sufficient. Yet, now is our opportunity to restore our lost connection with simple methods of contact.
The most simple is the physical Star Exercise in which you open your body, turning your left palm upward to attract the Universal Power outside of yourself with your own Life Center acting as a magnet.
That contact may feel like a tinglingly of a warm or cool energy, but if you are not conscious of feeling It, then just relax. You are automatically attuning yourself with the Cosmic Currents because of the Law of Attraction. And eventually the Truth of the contact will help harmonize doubt or fear.
When you are conscious of contact with the Absolute through Universal Life Energy physically, then you are becoming conscious of being One with the Absolute on higher planes, mental and Spiritual.
Another simple practice is the Mental Contact
In this Mental Contact you physically relax your body and once you feel harmony within, you open the mental door to assert your union with Universal Life with audible Declarations of Truth:
“I am One with Universal Life Energy, that is flowing through me Now. I feel It.”
And feeling that Power physically is evidence that You are One with the Absolute on the Spiritual, Soul level too because what is True on one level is True on another.
It’s just a matter of what we allow ourselves to become conscious of!
In these practices you are beginning to become conscious of your unity with the Great Principle, God because you are feeling the Truth of the Absolute physically ….. that You are One with the Eternal spiritually.
We may physically feel It as Universal Life Energy and/or as a mysterious unknown presence.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“You must remember that on the Mental Plane you are a law unto yourself. If you believe in a thing, that thing will become a reality to you. But if you doubt or fear, that doubt or fear also becomes a reality to you and prevents you from realizing the thing you want.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 26.
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“People value Freedom above all else; no more magnetic power of Attraction could exist than the sense of Freedom which your Individuality radiates from all your Being.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principle of Science of Being, page 312.
A sincere spiritual seeker is courageously truthful about ourselves, living in a state of conscious awareness. Earnestly practice being aware of where the mind lives, its thinking and emotions.
And when you feel that anything is out of peace, disturbing your consciousness, you can know that you need only be willing to take simple steps to reestablish Inner harmony.
First
The first step is to pause and go silent ….. being consciously aware. Gradually let any circling of monkey chatter go silent. Bring the attention within yourself, becoming calm and present in the moment. Thus, we are living Life as it is meant to be …… as a conscious Being engaged in the moment.
To go into the silence in any moment a daily exercise called Relaxation and Silence can help. This is a simple exercise in which we relax the body, gradually silence the monkey chatter, and becoming conscious of profound peace and presence of something greater than ourselves. One can become aware of actually feeling that Presence as Universal Life Energy.
This is the 2nd Step
When you go within yourself and become conscious of the present moment, practice being fully appreciative of what’s around you ….. what’s happening without habitual pattern judgments.
A sincere spiritual seeker’s second step to awakening is becoming aware of the witness within. To view the world with new eyes, with interest, awareness and appreciation. To view what we experience, think and feel as if for the first time.
And to courageously face the challenge of the ego with all its obstinate thoughts and emotions with a compassionate Heart and Deep Love. To be willing to accept ourselves and the moment as it is with Understanding and Inspirational Harmony.
As an example
I have experienced much emotional pain and mental anguish and have became aware that those labels caused more pain rather than lessening it. And not until I pause and became silent do I begin to calm the emotions. And in that moment, like a flash, I can become grateful for this awareness about the ego.
I become aware of the witness within. Initially, awareness of emotional pain feels bitter-sweet, but when we are truly grateful there is no bitterness. We cannot sincerely feel true gratitude and anguish at the same time.
We can choose gratitude ….. We can outgrow challenges like feeling anguish, fear, hatred, worry, anger, jealousy and unworthiness; that is evolve beyond them.
We may be tempted by the ego to dive into emotional payoffs with blame, guilt, self-righteousness, fault-finding and being right. Yet we can choose to be a doer rather than a critic. We can learn from our mistakes. And even become grateful for them!
We can learn to love ourselves unconditionally and thus we develop compassion for others and love them unconditionally too.
Polarity in human thinking
The human mind is naive and the ego feels emotional pain. Yet, that emotional pain is a flag to awaken us to become conscious! And as a witness in conscious awareness we can view experiences without circling in egotistic traits..
It is a courageous mental exercise to be aware of polarities like how we view emotional anguish and gratitude. Both seem to have elements of the other within them. It is only our mental attitude, our mental perception, our belief that an experience is anguish or gratitude.
It’s similar for seemly polar emotions like fear and love, resentment and freedom, condemnation and forgiveness. Our morals, our values, our mental beliefs, habits and beliefs color how we see and experience life ….. how we experience challenges.
What to do when you are challenged
To outgrow temptations and the payoffs of negative, egotistic traits we should be willing to look at them honestly. Pause, become silent and conscious of the witness within. And be compassionate.
Choose to step into a higher frequency. Negate any thought or emotion that does not serve the better good, throwing it in a mental trashcan. Then purposefully choose higher levels of consciousness like optimism, understanding, trust and love. And we can choose the help of Divine Harmony by contacting Universal Life Energy.
The sincere spiritual seeker will be willing to to fight for their freedom, for Inner Peace and Harmony. And when we do then we are becoming aware of our Higher Self, our Higher Consciousness, our Soul.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Practice Truth, and thereby cast off the fetters of weakness and fear with which untruth has bound you. Love Truth, and you will gain the treasures of this World, not merely of wealth, but of trust and honor and abounding love.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 175.
When we consciously think well of others it helps heal ourselves and the world. Manifesting unconditional Love while we are at work, doing errands, at home or anywhere, we are living a conscious heart. Our Spiritual Heart is where our innate Wise Love is seated.
And manifesting those qualities of our Soul with Love leading us refines our character and lifts us on the mental and physical planes, helping us face any challenge before us. We free ourselves from the ego’s demands and can choose a path that benefits ourselves and everyone around us.
There will be a state of calm and harmony within us, which helps us clear our thinking to consciously choose to Be FourSquare expressing Enthusiasm, Intelligence, Sincerity and most of all Love. And these choices are in harmony with the qualities of Source and our very Soul. The effect, being in harmony with Source, will be of the most benefit.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Similarly, you must radiate from yourself the Magnetic Power of Love which will draw like response from those with whom you come in contact.”
Eugene Fersen, Science of Being (looseleaf in 27 Lessons), page 633.
“When human beings realize that to entertain unfriendly thoughts of any kind towards others is to let loose in themselves an enemy to ravage and destroy, they will be less ready to admit Hatred, Avarice, Anger and all the other negative emotions. The individual who discharges evil thoughts at an enemy strikes a double blow at himself, because not only does that disharmony permeate first his own system, but the destructive mental vibrations he releases, controlled by certain Immutable Laws, must return greatly augmented to their point of origin. …
The only effective way for killing once and for all the menace of the boiler in your Mind is to kill the negative fires under it. The one Power which negative cannot withstand is obviously the Power of the Positive, or Universal Life Energy. If you make the contact with that Force whenever you feel the rising heat of rebellious emotions, drenching in Its cool stream those inner fires of evil, you will extinguish them utterly, leaving yourself calm and free to cope with the situation that confronts you. …
Two ingredients are essential in the prescription you fill from the Laboratory of Nature – Patience and Perseverance.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, pages 234-6.
We each face many challenges in our life! And on a daily basis. Yet, a more optimistic way to look at them is to consider them opportunities for establishing Harmony. They point to areas in our life to be healed.
And I have found that the most beneficial thing to do is to pause, breathe, and be grateful. Grateful for the awareness that here is an opportunity to do something practical to help myself and others in a very real way.
That’s when I also contact Universal Life Energy. It’s simple and easy to pause, come into my breath and mentally realize that I am One with Universal Life Energy that flows through me now.
Like when things don’t go the way we think they should and we become frustrated, impatient and hateful ….. those feelings points to an opportunity to first, become conscious and aware of them. Second, observe the feelings as from a distance. Then, healing yourself with Universal Life Energy. Just make the contact and leave the rest to that Power. And finally, to consciously choose an uplifting, loving attitude.
Frustration, impatience and blame are erroneous zones …… they are within us and can be healed with Universal Life Energy and Love. And we can choose to be motivated by different emotions, like understanding, patience, gratitude and unconditional Love.
A feeling of sympathy for someone as in, “Bless your heart,” is an empathy miss because we are comparing ourselves and being motivated of our own feelings of superiority and self-righteousness. Empathy would be feeling what the other is feeling and understanding with a compassionate heart.
Emotions can be felt in the heart, yet are triggered in the brain by our thoughts and experiences. And we become conscious of the emotions as feelings. Feelings feeds our behaviors and more thinking, attitudes and behaviors, circling. We become conditioned to react with egotistic, negative emotions by repetitive exposure, and they also become automatic habits for us.
Being conscious and aware of this process in the moment gives us an opportunity to free ourselves from conditioning and habits. We have the freedom to choose our next move! And every choice counts and manifests, rebounding back into our reality.
So the most practical thing to do is to be aware and throw ourselves completely into the Positive Power of Universal Life Energy. It’s our choice, our freedom to do so! And it’s simple and easy.
We get busy, worried, and circle in anxious thinking . For those of us conscious of being on our spiritual journey goals include raising our consciousness and harmonizing our thinking. The subconscious ego is naïve and allows ourselves to be mentally programmed. And it limits our awareness of life’s expansive opportunities and potentials ….. as being the creators of our own destiny!
Yet there are ways get the subconscious ego to work for us and control negative thoughts and impulses.
First of all ….. What is it?
Long ago we turned away from the Eternal ….. not recognizing our innate, Unconditional Love. We separated Divine Mind within us into three rays – Superconsciousness, Consciousness and Subconsciousness, a level below Consciousness.
The Consciousness is in the middle so to speak, being able to reach up to inspirations and Enlightenment of the Superconscious or down to programming, memories and imagination of the Subconsciousness.
And we want to raise up.
But, the ego can keep us circling in the subconscious programming with negative thinking and emotions. This happens when we do not stand guard to the consciousness and let negative thoughts, opinions, suggestions, sensations, feelings, emotions, and experiences fall into the subconscious to grow and mutate.
Eventually those mutated energies return to our consciousness and we consider them our personality and use them as rational thought!
Why to hard to control?
We may feel like we should fight against the ego. But intention based in disgust or scorn only draws more negative energies.
The subconscious is naive and lacks discrimination. It’s been programmed and that’s why it’s so hard to control!
Instead, we must fight with Truth and Love, We must fight with Divine Mind and Unconditional Love, developing conscious discrimination, consideration, honesty and caring.
How to harmonize
ENLIGHTEN the conscious self
We get busy during our day and unaware consciously, thus the practice of Relaxation and Silence is of prime importance to help us return to the moment. With a few deep breaths and mental silence we gain control over ourselves and negativity can no longer influence us. We’re more conscious and can return to reason and discrimination ….. choosing our thoughts and emotions.
The more we know about the subconscious as a condition the more we are able to become conscious and control the ego. Remember subconsciousness is a mere conditioned program …. a mental illusion and belief that was created by the human consciousness ages ago and is below our awareness.
In that conditioning there’s always a payoff for negative thoughts and emotions like stress, despair, anxiety, pride and anger! We can blame others or circumstances, get attention and get high on adrenaline and hormones of stress. And these hormones and drama are very addictive, keeping us in moods and beliefs about ourselves!
Engage Mind and Heart Coherence
Your emotions are tools of your Soul. And Soul recognizes negative passions when we experience them and lets us know by how they make us feel. We feel bad, down, worried, angry, humiliated, stressed, etc.
We can consciously choose to reject these negative passions. Negation is an easy means of mentally rejecting any inharmonious thoughts, emotions or positionalities. In negation we stand guard of the Conscious Self, reject and mentally throw negativity into a mental trashcan! Or incinerate it with the purifying power of Universal Life Energy.
But, in order to do so we must be conscious, aware in the moment and care!
The next step is to think “as many positive thoughts as you can.” And we purposefully allow each positive thought to enter the subconscious so it can grow!
Each positive thought like gratitude eliminates a negative one!
As for myself, when I am conscious of a negative thought or emotion like resentfulness, because of the positionally believing I have been wronged ….. I reject it mentally. And I become grateful for this amazing awareness and ability to reject it.
Purify the subconscious
No amount of positive thinking can eliminate the entire human collective subconscious energies and karma that we are all connected to and part of. Yet, there is a powerful tool in Universal Life Energy to purify the subconscious.
And there are many methods of contact: the Star Exercise, the Mental Contact and a specific one for subconscious purification, called Fertilization as shared in The Fundamental Principles Lesson 11.
Every time you purposefully contact Universal Life Energy you are engaging a Power of the Great Principle that creates worlds, constitutes, governs, sustains, pervades and contains everything! It harmonizes, corrects and eliminates imperfections on all planes, including the subconscious ego.
Creating your own destiny
When we imagine and love our ambition and can experience the emotion of being in it Now we are attracted to harmonious, constructive opportunities! We sow the seeds of our ambitions.
We are engaging Mind and Heart coherence. And we are energizing the Law of Attraction and the Law of Demand and Supply.
Then we must act in concordance with our ambitions in the present moment with all the energies of Enthusiasm, Intelligence, Principle and Love.
The more we do, the more we are pulled to our ambitions!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“After you have relaxed, entered into Silence and made the Contact with Universal Life Energy, think of that Force in its greater Aspect as the Life Breath of the Universe.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 350.
It’s here for You …. the Presence…. right there when we allow it. And it’s easy to make the initial contact when we release the ego even just a bit.
The ego fights, doubts and usually ignorant of its own self-righteous ….. yet even the subconscious ego eventually tries to improve itself and evolve, helping us rise in consciousness. And as we rise in consciousness we gradually release the ego. It’s an enlightening phenomena and oxymoron!
And that’s why you’re here reading this entry according to the Law of Analogy. There are many roads to take, yet they all eventually lead to Source. You’re listening to your Inner Teacher… your Higher, Real Self… the Presence Within. What Is. This particular road is a spiritual one and physical one simultaneously.
Presence is pulling You, us, towards higher and higher levels of consciousness of what we really are. Our Inner Love and Spiritual Heart is attracted to Presence, Source, Universal Life Energy …. what Is and what we are.
There’s an easy physical method ….. to make contact with Presence …..
The Star Exercise opens our bodies to the inflow of Source Energy, Universal Life Energy. Yet, even this method requires a willingness to allow it …. a mental, conscious choice to allow ourselves to feel Presence.
We cup up our hands to feel what we are …. Universal Life Energy. We pause mentally, emotionally and lookup within to something greater than ourselves…. to allow ourselves to feel Presence, to feel Source as Universal Life Energy.
And we can easily feel It ….. as a tingling or awareness of knowing our hand’s presence and the energy there. Mind pauses and becomes quiet. And in that silence we become aware of something more than thinking ….. that we are connected and one with Presence when we allow it.
this serves all of humanity amazingly because …
It rises our consciousness, harmonizes our mental energies, balances our bodily functions and radiates that harmonious energy to all.
Presence, Source is at your fingertips, in your hands …. so readily available. Consider making the Mental Contact merely by allowing yourself to feel Universal Life Energy flow through You Now. It flows and Is Unconditionally Source.
When we notice that we are conscious…. “I think, therefore, I am,” it is an indication of an opportunity …… of an adventure ….. to travel a spiritual road of awakening to the source of consciousness.
We can travel unlimited roads to being conscious of being a thinking, a watcher, a witness, and something greater…. to Source…. Self. And conscious contact with Universal Life Energy is road less traveled, yet evermore becoming more prevalent in the human mind because the level of humanity is on the rise.
Conscious contact with Universal Life Energy helps us dissolve the ego.
As we begin, we differentiate between illusion of the subconscious ego and Eternal Love. Then as we gradually, or more rarely suddenly, dissolve the ego and consciously rise above duality ….. the spiritual road becomes easier and we become stronger, wiser, truer, more loving and open to Unconditional Love.
We become conscious of what we are more and more …. all the while seeing the terrible turmoil the ego stirs in the world and the suffering of humanity …. yet we know that All is perfect and Harmonious in Spiritual Reality.
Presence is here and Now for all of us….
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Man creates his own heaven and his own hell. They are man-made, not created by God. They are states of consciousness, not localities, and they last as long as one remains willing host to them.”
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