Stepping up in Consciousness

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

Lets talk about ways to increase our awareness!

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

Hi Michelle,

One technique to help with falling asleep on the cushion, so to speak, is to meditate with your eyes open, with soft gaze. There is always the technique of the iron maiden zafu cushion.

LOL

Kunga

[Michelle]

Kunga! LOL... I've been think feeling alot lately about how people give up so easily when it comes to changing the world into a better place. People start arguing with each other, tempers flare etc. I wish everyone knew that the way in which to change the world is to change themselves first. by loving themselves & feel the way they want to feel..

******** I would like it if everyone knew the truth of their divine co-creating birthright & how they don't need anyone to rule over them. I would like to teach people this love & help them feel this self-love for themselves. Jesus did not die on that cross to die in vain. Jesus did not speak in parables to you for you to be misled by the very people he corrected in the first place. His parables were to set you free from the tyranny of dogmatic religion & politic & royalty rulings. He gave his parables for you to learn your divine birthright & how to co-create. He was the living example of how to love yourself fully & holy & how to embody God & Christ consciousness & how you are God/Goddess & can co-create your own happiness. It is time for you to love yourself in all the ways that you had hoped others would do for you. It is time to allow an undiluted version of yourself to be present & joyfully engaged in life. It is time to acknowledge your fears placing yourself in experiences that serve to heal your guilt. This is your time to become what you have yearned to feel your whole life. It is your time to accept a new relationship that is just now unfolding within you, knowing that even in its infancy, its reflection inspires & motivates humanity to question a life that lacks joy. Your true identity is love itself, Beloved. It is not a burden. It is a gift. Sharing the embodied presence of self love makes self fulfillment complete.
Lots of Loving Hugs, Michelle

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

O.K. Larry,

I usually don't like to admit those unexplainable moments, the scientist in me disapproves of it. However, there was a time in my teens when, while visiting with a certain friend, somehow, when his phone rang, and this was before caller i.d. was common, I somehow knew and could call out who it was that was calling on the phone. If I didn't know the person, I could describe them as far as gender, hair color, etc. There have been many other situations like that, seeing spirits, reading minds, and found it too tempting.

I'm looking to just clear the house in my head, if you will. Let those talents come forth when I have a better idea how to manage it.

thanks,
Kunga

[Larry D. Matyas]

Interesting....That reminds me of the many times someone will come to my mind and then the phone will ring and it's that person calling me.

[Chi-man]

Kunga. After reading your comment, I'm wondering why it is that you're uncomfortable with these abilities? What are your feelings about them? They are more the real you than the scientist mind in you.
I can understand the feeling of strangeness about them. I would ask you what you want in life, where do you want to be? Do you want to grow spiritually? Do you want to remain at the conscious awareness level that you're at? Do you want to live life with all it's physical limitations? Or do you want to soar to new unexperienced heights of human experience. What are the upsides to you to developing these talents?
What are the downsides to you? You might find that answering this last question will reveal a of reasons why you are hesitant to embracing these talents. All the techniques in the world won't help you win a horse race if you're pulling back on the reigns.
Always working towards higher consciousness, Chi-Man

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

Hi Chi-man, I can say that my hesitation lies in the path of BEING present with the WHAT IS, and letting go of what is made up in the mind, or fantasy. I also am not someone who is interested in cheap parlor tricks. Many people like to call themselves this or that, such as "I'm an empath!" Many folks I have met with this supposed talent, had no such ability. It was a defense mechanism for them to have advantage of manipulation over others. One of the greatest "talents" if you will is to simply be present fully with the happening of here and now, no narration to cause confusion, no false interpretations, no sense of lack of equanimity, no "trying" to figure out anything, just fully present with what is, moment to moment. The "fear" is noticing something out of the norm, and making a big deal of it, in my head. This is not really a fear, but a cautious hesitation to jump into any story about direct experience.

Besides, I have no intention of greatness. I am already a great being, like everyone else. I am also very great in the fact that I accept that I am great, and see the greatness in everyone I meet. The work I do is to simply understand how I and other have managed to get in our own way, in our own head with stories of nonsense, that which is not in the realm of what we know as reality.

My personal path has had instances of psychic communication, teleportation from one part of a large piece of land to another, communication with wildlife, moving large objects like trucks up hill alone, and the list goes on and on. They are never anything I let get to my head, nothing more exceptional than the pasta sauce I made last week. Everything, if you will, is a miracle, and we can all be proud of the fact that we woke up today, alive, not dead yet, and be proud of that. In other words, I don't like to judge one miracle over the many others. Just cause one is more common than the other, does not mean it is more special, just occurs less frequently, agree?

K

[Michelle]

Hi, Chi-man & Kunga! I've been reading of what you both had to say. I feel that it is very important that a person should love themselves deeply every part including the ego. The ego is going to be with you in the afterlife. I feel that alot of people don't know what is really going on within themselves, so they do all kinds of research to intellectually understand it all. Which leads back to compartmentalizing things. We need to clean up the floor of the foundations of self, our principles. Remember the warnings of the Ascended Masters to change our belief systems that just aren't working for us. These belief systems do not help us advance. We all want to advance to get to our ONENESS with God. People still believe in their old belief systems that we are separate from God not knowing that separation is a lie, an illusion, a trick of the mind. Mmmm... How do I say this...?

The yearning in your heart can never be satisfied by the mind alone. No matter how many new & exciting concepts you intellectually discover, your heart continues to wait to experience self fulfillment. I feel this polarized environment is suffocating my heart's expression. I am just beginning to test my new wings sort-of-speak. BUT... Mmmm...
I've awakened from a dream that continually demands that I deny who I AM, my own freedom for the price of existing within the safe parameters of this world's narrow minded cocoon. A lot of you seem to accept the parameters of duality that attempt to confine your magnificence to a set of beliefs that would suggest you are not worthy of God's love & gift of co-creating. This love is unconditional but some of you don't know what that kind of love is like because I feel of upbringing & religious dogmas. This gift comes with no agenda, offering unlimited abundance to whatever your heart desires, so long as it is not used to hurt someone. The frustration one might feel comes from trying to activate this gift within a reality that believes it is separate from Father God & Mother Goddess (the counterpart of God). With a little practice you will experience the pleasure of life serving you.
But... only if you choose the path of freedom instead of the path of denial you have been traveling on.

[Chi-man]

Hi Kunga: Yes you are to be commended about not letting the ego take pride for any such “spiritual talents”. And it is a turn off to see somebody being phony in professing any abilities. I just ignore them. You certainly seem to have cleared you mind enough to have certain spiritual powers flow through you. I don’t think it is automatically a bad thing to speak of one’s abilities, as long as it doesn’t go to your head as we’ve said.
But I think if the interpreters of the Mayan calendar are correct and we are going to experience some kind of impending shift in our world as we know it, THAT THESE TALENTS WILL BE NECESSARY FOR OUR SURVIVAL. There are a lot of reports about a new world order wanting to control the populace, even worse, eradicate large population centers. This is nothing new. It has been going on for over 300,000 years as the Sumerian texts indicate. Sorry if I’m frightening anybody by entertaining these scenarios, but I’d rather be frightened now into a healthy preparation than be absolutely paralyzed with helpless fear if and when these horrors do happen. I want to develop all the talents I can. Tele-kinesis would be great. More knowing without knowing to be forewarned of danger and being to able to teleport one’s body and relocate somewhere else would be great plus for survival. And especially, super strong health.
If and when I speak of any extraordinary experiences I’ve had, I try not to do it for any self-aggrandizing purposes. But I think it is very valuable to anybody who is trying to raise their conscious awareness to realize that, people who aren’t especially great or unusual as you and I are able to do these things. What one has done, demonstrates that we all have the potential to do so. Even if I did have great talents, I wouldn’t brag about them or go around publicly demonstrating them for fear that some government agent would come knocking on my door the next day to whisk me off to some gulag to study and develop me into a military weapon. Or worse yet just leave me there to rot.
I would hope that this forum would be for an exchange of ideas to learn how to and help each other develop these extraordinary talents. Which leads into TECHNIQUES. In my mind Michelle has just talked about the main and most important technique of all – LOVE. I’ve discovered that when I was able to allow Divine Love to flow through me in dedicated and consistent meditations, I felt “bullet proof” and all kinds of synchronistic things started happening in my life. Little miracles. So I don’t think anybody is going to get too far unless they have a peaceful mind and love flowing from their hearts towards their fellow man and all of God’s creation. I think peace and love is THE PRE-REQUISITE to higher consciousness. The peace and being in the ‘here and now’ that you’ve talked about, Kunga, is what makes it all happen. It’s all the same thing.
It’s most important to understand that all the extraordinary talents anybody develops are JUST BY-PRODUCTS of these two expressions because they help us to achieve CONNECTEDNESS with God and the Universe. Again, like Michelle said, we already have these talents, because we are extensions of God; originally we were “mini-gods”. We really need to have this paramount in our belief systems; we need to RE-CONNECT. It will spur us on to greater communion with whatever we perceive God to be. Once we accept this completely, we then realize that we just have to discover the right technique for us that’s going to make us re-awaken, re-remember that we’ve always been connected, not separate; it’s all just an illusion.
Yeah, and ‘self-love’ is the litmus paper test that will tell us if we’re going to succeed. If we don’t love ourselves (realize that we are already great and magnificent creatures) we’ll never be able to let Divine Love freely flow through us. Any little irritation or dissatisfaction with any part of ourselves will impede that flow. There is an affirmation phrase that we use in Emotional Freedom Technique therapy, “I completely and deeply love and accept myself the way I am.” If you can’t say this and really feel and mean it, you need to introspect the reasons why and work on them. It is something I do constantly with this form of therapy. If you like, write to me in my home page and I can suggest all kinds of ways to clear any personal blocks and self-doubts you might have.
Peace and Love to you all, Chi-Man

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

Eureka! Good to see that you, well, see. See the truth, and I couldn't agree more with what you said. It also sounds like you work with techniques I use as well. Good. Enough said on this subject.

Will be back to share techniques...

K

[Larry D. Matyas]

Now that's what we're here for.

[Ganesha Bhagawan Vignesvarswami]

O.K. Here is a NLP starter technique for unconditional happiness. The technique gives a flawless condition to help move consciously from it eventually.

Step 1. Sit comfortably. Be relaxed and free of mind triggers and connections.
In other words, be calm.

Step 2. Close your eyes, and find a memory of a time in the past, that you were happy, the most happy you can remember. Preferably it was not to do with relationships or anything that could change in the future.
This is the Visual field connection.

Step 3. Say to yourself "happy" or "love" if that is a steady pleasant feeling for you. Repeat over and over while holding the visual. This is the Auditory connection.

Step 4. With your left hand, press your index and thumb tips together gently yet firmly. Release and repeat several times, still holding the visual and auditory connections.

Continue this three stage connection until the feeling of great joy and happiness fills your being.

Practice this technique daily, I do it about 20-100 times in one day. Just stop, and give yourself 5 minutes to get to where you know you want to be.
Use this when triggers flare or the situation seems unpleasant. The best thing we can ever do at any time is feel accepting and happy.

Enjoy,

Rev. Kunga

[Michelle]

Ah! Chi-man! You write such loving inspiring words. I feel it is important for a person to learn channeling. An Ascended Master Serapis Bey recommended channeling because channeling allows you to get your own multi-dimensional information, keeps you in constant contact with a wider perspective, & breaks down reliance on outside authority. He says it is also, "It's ecstatic & fun!" Religious dogmas have people really believing that channeling is evil. It is the misunderstanding of it that is evil.
I found an ebook that was dictated by the Ascended Master, Immanuel. The book can be used by anyone. So that's what I did. I've included this ebook on the forum: Mystery School Lesson #5 Part A thru W. It's a bit long but it doesn't have all that "he say, she say stuff." It is more short sweet & to the point. This ebook covers alot of ground. So, I am thankful it doesn't have that he say she say stuff in the ebook otherwise it would have been longer. I have not changed the wording in any way! You will notice this by some of the grammatical errors. LOL... But you'll look past that & get the point. I'm still reading it from time to time & love so far what I've read. Even my husband Jim told me he enjoyed immensely what he read so far. Don't just take my word for it, check it out for yourself. Lots of Love to ALL, Michelle