A State of Mind
“We should try to develop the love of Beauty, which is at the foundation of our being.” Eugene Fersen
Even a novice photographer can capture the scenic beauty and power of Alaska on an iPad. And, there is more to it than meets the eye!
Summer doesn’t last long in Alaska, but it is beautiful, green with mild weather and swollen rivers and lakes from melting snow.
The states of water can be used to symbolize the states of mind.
Clear liquid water is in a state of fluidity and active movement, representing consciousness aware in the present moment.
Mind in the present moment is clear, calm and receptive. It better reflects our True, beautiful individual character and its unlimited quality, like the open sky.
However, if our mind is muddied and rippled by negative attitudes or harmful desires it symbolizes a troubled personality and life.
If mind is fixed, stubborn, opinionated without hope of change it is like ice, frozen like hell.
Water in a gaseous state represents the Higher, True Self. Pure Mind, a perfect complement to Divine Love. Our natural state. Beautiful.
With Light and Love, Portia SLB
Tag: science of being
AWAKENING – A Dream
A Dream
Stone on my heart, heavy
with black underneath
No notice of twilight, deep
Cold and deserved frozen complete
Hands of time, still
with experience incomplete
Sweetness unravel memories, tear
Ice and immure darkness begin to retreat
Question forms on my lips, why
within light still burns
Smell a whisper of roses, sweet
Faint movement and beat
Do I dream, now?
Do I begin to feel?
Am I awakening? Hope.
Is that gentle love that I feel?
With Light and Love, Portia SLB
Santa Holiday freedom
When I first heard my spiritual teacher say, “Santa Claus is a lie,” I was dazed and confused even though I knew it was true. I had been repeatedly programmed to believe he is real! But, the truth slowly sank into my conscious understanding. And I was finally freed of the illusion along with the accompanying stress, obligations and expectations. And I am so grateful.
Traditional lies and illusions can cause us to distrust our inner knowing and to feel guilty unless we take steps to expose and rise above them.
Traditional lies
During our childhood we are taught to blindly believe in certain traditions and that they are good even if we suspect something is off. And we often carry on the same traditions without considering the consequences.
The human mind is naive, especially when we are young. The ego’s desire to belong and not be left out is so strong that we blindly become ‘followers’ and stuck in serving the ego’s world.
Liberation comes through conscious awareness and Love
Until we consciously awaken, question, discriminate and listen to our inner Love and guidance, we will accept every belief, superstition and prejudice without discrimination, which can cause us to experience self-righteousness, anger, hatred and guilt.
Yet such feelings can help those of us on a conscious spiritual journey because we have the opportunity to ask ourselves as to why we feel these thoughts and can consciously choose to serve a Higher purpose rather than the ego.
Take it or leave it
We can expand our consciousness and open to the tenderness of our heart. And, the connection to our sacred heart center leads to answers; the true reasons back of emotional disturbances.
Such insights and inspirations are messages from your soul. And, we all have additional help, including from greater realms of Harmony and the Great Principle.
You can have new thoughts. Old thoughts can be replaced with new ones, more accurate ones. With insight you can change your perspective. And your experience of reality will radically change.
Truth or consequences
The way you respond to conditions in life determines the way you evolve. It determines your power, health, success and happiness. You can be conscious of creating in the Light of Love or circle unconsciously in the consequences of karma.
But, even the path of pain, stress and doubt can lead us through the lesson to love and compassion. When we’ve suffered enough we will look for the reason why and do something about it. But we can consciously choose not to think and circle in old beliefs. And as they leave new thoughts enter and we can move on.
Being free of a false belief releases you from expectations, obligations and the mass dream. A burden lifted off your back and opens you to being conscious of the Light of Love.
All lessons lead us to remember Love eventually,
which is the base of unconditional Love.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Let us lift our eyes from this increasing darkness to the pure Light of Knowledge, aflame with Love – that bright Star on the firmament of Life, which is heralding now to mankind, the Dawn of a New Day, the Day of Spiritual Regeneration, which is to bring to man lasting Justice, Peace and Happiness.”
Eugene Fersen
Consider watching a 3 minute video on the origin of Santa Claus:
Top ways to master challenges that threaten the Spiritual seeker’s progress
It’s amazing the emotions we can mentally repress. One of them is anger…..and it can be shocking when it explodes to our consciousness! Another is shame or humiliation ….. we may despise ourselves when it surfaces. Or it may be hopelessness ….. but we are aware of feeling despair, or even depressed. Any of these could hamper a spiritual seeker’s progress if we let it fester.
What can a spiritual seeker do?
1. See it as a Spiritual opportunity
When an egotistic challenge surfaces, especially a repressed one that suddenly explodes, consider it an excellent spiritual opportunity! It may be rooted in a trauma, yet see it for what it is …… a real, precious spiritual opportunity to overcome and raise your consciousness.
Life challenges us to express our Soul qualities ever stronger. We have to be conscious and aware of any egotistic trait or emotion that threatens our health and happiness in order to do anything about it. Be conscious that it is fleeting and not the Real You. Rather it is a temporary illusion that you can overcome, and constructively progress on your spiritual journey to fulfill your soul’s destiny.
2. Develop patience and perserverance
Your Soul endeavors to expose and purge every egotistic opposition to its freedom. And though not all obstacles may be overcome immediately, with patience and perseverance you can progress.
Blend reasoning and intuition, and let enlightened Understanding strengthen your Soul qualities of optimism, wisdom, sincerity and compassion to meet challenges.
We have within the ability to overcome every challenge that comes our way because the Great Law would not stop progress. Every step that overcomes an obstacle adds to our spiritual progress. Bit by bit we evolve.
3. Come to the present moment
Relax and take some deep breathes to energize the body and brain and bring awareness into the present moment, knowing that the present moment is all there is. Now is powerful and the only moment where great opportunities are within reach, because we exist only now.
4. Continually contact Universal Life Energy
Contact the Power of Universal Love and Attraction, Universal Life Energy, which attracts the very Soul qualities within that help you face obstacles. And know that you are not alone in the fight for harmony.
See any apparent defeat as another opportunity to realize that defeat is only a defeat if we see it that way. Learn from challenges and meet them ever stronger with your Soul qualities of Strength, Intelligence, Truth and Love.
Life is meant for your happiness and enjoyment. If any repressed trauma does surface be gentle with yourself and face it with unconditional Love. Choose to feel grateful for the opportunity to face it consciously and rise above it.
5. Express the FourSquare
All that arises and happens in our life are spiritual opportunities, even those that are devastatingly ugly and can kill our bodies. Endeavor to accept any lesson that surfaces and proceed with optimism, understanding, sincerity and above all Love (the FourSquare).
Love is a Power and a Universal Law. It governs the Universe in Harmony. So identify with It mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It’s the surefire way to progress on your Spiritual journey.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“Every time you overcome a difficulty or an obstacle, you unfold a corresponding quality of your Soul. That much is added to the sum of your knowledge, strength and power, and by the measure of that increase you have advanced just so much in your Evolution.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 287.
Your Reality is Shaped by Your Emotions: The Power of Emotion to Change Your Life, Part 1
If you think your life sucks at times, then it does. What most people don’t realize is that it sucks because we make it that way!
Our ego loves what is familiar and will keep coming back to the same emotions, even if they feel bad! Your emotions amply your thoughts, radiating out as your personality, body, and surrounding life conditions – in other words your reality.
You can lose a sense of your True Self and soul because of identification with illusionary feelings. The ego tries to overcome the confusion and emotional pain, by doing a lot of thinking about it, always trying to solve a problem it never can.
In this series we will discuss why your emotions shape your life, how to identify and benefit even by negative emotions, and how to center your emotional power for positive change.
Emotions manifest physically
It’s usually obvious when someone is angry. You may not actually see steam come out of their ears but: the rational part of the brain shuts down, the body tenses (tightening in the shoulders and chest), stress related hormones are released (such as adrenaline and cortisol), and the face gets red when the cardiovascular responses kick in.
Emotions release hormones related to the limbic system and chemicals in the brain and body …… and we can become addicted to these even if if they feel bad to us! We may not always be acutely aware of the emotions and physiological release of chemicals in our bodies, yet eventually we get a feeling. Our feelings, emotions, and attitudes are so tied together that we usually use these terms interchangeably.
Bodily Effects of Your Emotions
Your emotions can manifest in your life in precarious ways. People with an irritable disposition are 3 times more likely to have a heart attack than people who are less prone to temper tantrums. Plus, over time such high stress situations like anger can hamper the immune system, resulting in any number of illnesses.
Positive emotions like delight and gratitude also manifest in the body, reversing the effects of negative emotions, harmonizing and healing it. When you experience joy and love: the body relaxes, happiness chemicals are released (such as dopamine, oxytocin or endorphins) and sent to your heart.
Of course, matters of the heart are involved! We attract what we feel through our heart, the seat of Love and Magnetic Center of Attraction.
In those people who feel deep, abiding love there is a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, greater functioning of the immune system, and calmer, clearer thinking.
You Attract What You Feel – The Law of Attraction
Circling in negative thoughts about your feelings amplify them! You attract the same energy that you think about and feel because of the Law of Attraction (Love). You get what you put out there in the Universe.
So if you have a grumpy disposition then you attract more negative, low-frequency conditions, even if that is not what you desire.
The Law of Karma
The Law of Attraction and The Law of Karma, or Cause and Effect, work together. If you evaluate a situation negatively with dark thoughts and emotions you will be very tempted to act upon it, especially if you are unconscious of your motivation.
The Law of Karma is a compassionate universal law that works to help us get back to our natural state of harmony. You will have to face the same or similar life situation over and over again until you respond from a place of sincere love, consistently.
Emotional Empowerment
Thoughts are empowered to manifest physically as emotions and shape our physical reality; first, in our body, then our surroundings, then others around us and indeed the world.
Why do they have such power?
Because our emotions are empowered by our Soul! And, the dominating character of our Soul is Love. Love is our natural condition, but when Love is perverted in the subconscious ego by fearful thinking itt causes us, each of us, to suffer.
In the next study we will discuss simple ways to change your reality even when you are tempted by negative emotions!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, Portia SLB
To learn more about releasing low-frequency energy: Releasing False Beliefs About Yourself
Until next time consider this quote to reflect upon:
“Will Power must be held responsible together with Fear for bringing into your life the very things you dread. ”
Eugene Fersen, Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 159.
Professor Ellen Langer of Harvard speaks on her research and upcoming movie about your emotions shaping your reality, as featured on CBS:
Your spiritually driven life as a Spiritual Warrior
The human road can be winding and pitted with so many challenges, temptations, glitz and glamour that it can distract you from living a spiritually driven life. The ego wants to keep everything status quo because of conditioning.
Yet, the spiritual warrior within is lead by our Spiritual Heart with the Conscious Wisdom and Love to create conditions for not only our own happiness, but for others and indeed for the world.
The message of Divine Love
We have had spiritual teachers through the ages as examples of a spiritual warrior and Jesus is a representative of Divine Love. According to teachings, though he faced many human temptations he chose the Divine Road, showing us how we are meant to live a spiritually driven life; to be a spiritual warrior.
As an insurrectionist his teachings challenged the social and religious order. And, people of influence at that time feared his deviant and very empowering teachings that the kingdom of God is near at hand for all rather than only for a few.
The message of Divine Mind
The message of Divine Mind is the wisdom of the heart, the wisdom of Love: the kingdom of Harmony is close at hand and within everyone’s own Heart and Mind.
We can feel in our Heart what is both wise and loving. We consciously choose to be aware consciously and in the moment. We consciously choose to be loving.
The ego and blind beliefs of the subconscious that wants to keep us enslaved to memories, superstitions and conditioning are released as we awaken to the illusion of their influence. With our spiritual Will we choose the spiritual path and to Be a spiritual Warrior ….. Choosing to Be Strong, Intelligent, Truthful and Law abiding, and Loving.
Facing Temptations
As a spiritual warrior we will and do face 3 similar temptations like all Great Spiritual Teachers. They are as in these questions, asking us if we are willing to let the ‘me,’ the ego die in order to create our happiness and spiritual fulfillment:
- Do we hunger for fulfillment, but live by human bread alone?
- Do we doubt the All encompassing Eternal and our innate Divine nature?
- Do we get lost in the human world of challenges, glamour and desire for influence and power?
Apathy delays us.
Doubt cripples our progress.
And greed, pride, jealousy, fear and other subconscious, egotistic traits perverts us.
We are capable Divine Beings that can choose to be FourSquare ….. Enthusiastic, Consciously aware, Principled and Loving.
Being a Spiritual warrior
You live a spiritually driven life and are a spiritual warrior, when you consciously manifest both personal and unconditional Love.
When you are conscious of the wisdom of your Heart and connect with your Higher Self and listen to Intuition.
When you consciously face temptations of anger, revenge, worry or fear with courage and Love, letting them past you by, choosing higher level of conscious responses, like optimism, release and understanding.
As a spiritual warrior – remember You are a powerful Being that has created this moment for yourself to remember your own inner authentic powers as a Universal Soul.
You are Strong, Wise, Sincere and Loving. And, You have the Creator, Divine Mind and Divine Love supporting You.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
Consider adding to the entry with your input. Remember your Higher Self never hesitates!
Until next time consider this quote to reflect upon:
“Mind, through his own mistakes due to Pride, at first destroyed his very life, but having REALIZED HIS MISDIRECTION starts to regenerate it, to rebuild it on a right basis. MIND, WHEN MISAPPLIED, DEBASES LIFE; PROPERLY USED, EXALTS IT.”
Eugene Fersen, Science of Being, page 40.
How to easily connect with Your Higher Self
Contact Universal Life Energy in the many various ways, The Star Exercise, Mental Contact, and conscious awareness of Being One with It. Universal Life Energy is the first physical manifestation of Source, the Great Principle, God. And when you feel It, you are directly contacting Source, which helps us connect with our Higher Self and the insights available to us.
With the Mental Contact we come to the present moment and experience what some call – Presence. In Presence there is no thinking, rather conscious awareness, observation. And insights and inspirations can come from our Higher Self. It’s a natural occurrence. And You are very capable of experiencing it, because You are a Universal Soul.
In the Mental Contact we are directly connecting with Source, Presence of Source, through Silence and by consciously contacting Universal Life Energy. We are deliberately contacting Source which helps us become conscious and aware of Truth …. and ….. of Harmony and Love.
When we contact Universal Life Energy we are allowing the Law of Attraction, Love, to work within us. The Truth quality of Universal Life Energy attracts like ….. It attracts Truth from within us ….. from our Higher Self and Superconsciousness ….. to come to the surface of our consciousness ….. when we are present and aware!
With conscious awareness of Truth we can choose Love. This leads us to our own strength, freedom and happiness.
Truth leads us to becoming conscious of the order of things according to Universal Law, according to the Universal Law of Spirit (The FourSquare), Law of Vibration, Law of Unity, and the Laws of Polarity, Rhythm, Gender and Cause and Effect. And we can make the most beneficial decisions for ourselves!
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
The Lightbearers’ Commandment simplifies how we can consciously align with Truth, Law:
“BE MAN – Express in every act of yours ALL ENERGY, INTELLIGENCE, TRUTH and LOVE; THUS LIVING ONLY WILL YOU LIVE; thus Living only will you live; thus acting only can you build to Freedom, Strength and Happiness in Life. This is your Problem: be this your Foremost Aim.”
Flutters
Flutters
We are constantly fluttering,
Becoming dumbfound
We listen to voices with no sound
Dream resolution in delusion
Speak words of confusion
All the while, tasting bitter feelings of collusion.
We oscillate, palpitate and fluctuate
Totally ignore and subordinate the beauty of the butterfly
Misunderstanding the need to identify
With that character to comprehend
The butterfly is not pretend,
And does help us to ascend.
As dangerous flutters abound
We fear the butterfly cannot withstand the pain
Believing it is foreordain
That we are set apart
Opposites, an unsubstantial counterpart
Like a shadow with no heart.
With Light and Love, Portia SLB
What do you ascertain?
Photo courtesy: FreeDigitalPhotos.net, Danilo Rizzuli
A Dream
A Dream
Stone on my heart, heavy
with black underneath
No notice of twilight, deep
Cold and deserved frozen complete
Hands of time, still
with experience incomplete
Sweetness unravel memories, tear
Ice and immure darkness begin to retreat
Question forms on my lips, why
within light still burns
Smell a whisper of roses, sweet
Faint movement and beat
Do I dream, now?
Do I begin to feel?
Am I awakening? Hope.
Is that gentle love that I feel?
With Light and Love, Portia SLB
“In the darkest hours of your life, when the stress of circumstance is at its crisis you have a Light to guide you and a Strength to help you support the burden. Universal Life Energy, that wonderful Power vouchsafed to Mankind, is always ready at hand to answer your call, an Ever Present Help in time of trouble, an Ally never loath to come at your summons and lend Its invincible Strength to fight and win all life’s battles.”
Eugene Fersen, The Fundamental Principles of Science of Being, page 406.
The secret Love of a crisis – it’s not what you think!
Photo: Montserrat, Italy 2018 PSLB
The subconscious ego may be torn up and desperately distraught …. circles over and over in despair, depression, worry, and fear about the global and very personal issues we face now …… without finding any value in it at all. Yet, there is value in everything, including the present challenges.
Difficulties can challenge us to pause, ponder and contemplate …. to go within …… to seek joy and happiness. Isn’t it true that we seek strength, wisdom, freedom and harmony? Even the subconscious cries for freedom from misery. Urns for happiness. Pleads for strength and wisdom.
The subconscious ego wants to reject the way things are now, and would much rather focus on the future or the past without fully experiencing life now. Yet, it’s an opportunity missed. So many, many opportunities missed to consciously experience life. Gone.
If we view every challenge, every problem, every opposition ….. as an opportunity to find within us a greater response then …… we are encouraged to look within to find our sown strengths …… to rediscover our Soul’s Strength, Wisdom, Truth and Love.
Challenges can prompt us to pause, ponder, and become Silent …… and that’s when we are better able to look deep within and recognize our own Inner Real Self. We may find that we are in the moment fully ….. appreciating Life.
And there can be victory in our hearts ….. and this is a secret Love within us awakening ….. Unconditional Love and Joy.
Gratitude may arise for the awareness of what is happening. Not for the crisis, problem or opposition, rather gratitude for the awareness of serenity and love always being close at hand. Gratitude for the infinite opportunities in this moment. Gratitude for some higher conscious understanding, that may not be logical, rather something deeper and far reaching ….. life changing.
And we can know ….. that if we do fall when facing challenges, it is temporary because we have a deep drive within us to succeed in life. It may take a while and we can hit bottom. Yet, eventually we will, with the help of the Great Principle, find the courage to dust ourselves off and face life again ….. and this is a great gift of Unconditional Love.
In the hope You find Love close at hand, PortiaSLB
“And there are those who walk the Divine Road. No human help do they expect. At first their steps are handicapped. They have to fight ill-will, and apathy, and ignorance, and fear….And by and by, slowly, step after step they climb, overcoming obstacles along the way, until easier and broader turns the path on which they move onward.”
Eugene Fersen, Science of Being, pages 305 and 306.
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