Tossed Around Like a Feather in the Wind
“The answer to external chaos is to deepen your internal resolve. Do that now.” (1)
I just watched the BBC News and a roundtable participant said that the floods in Australia were of Biblical proportions, which made you remember that the end times are here and reminded us to get religion, if we didn’t already have it.
BBC News? Give me a break.
But nonetheless, it looks like we’re in the thick of it. What is the impact of reaching a point in our history when Earth changes are actually happening, are affecting the lives of millions, and are causing even the dedicated to question what is occurring?
The word I would use for it is cognitive dissonance. Wikipedia says that “cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously.” What are examples of conflicting ideas? We are safe/we are not safe. The galactics are helping/the galactics are not helping. We are headed for heaven/we are headed for hell.
How does one handle the cognitive dissonance that arises at a time like this?
Assuming that one actually wants to manage cognitive dissonance and not that one wants to yield to it and move by steps toward becoming a basket case:
Cognitive dissonance drives us deeper into the field of consciousness that we are. That’s why so many people have spiritual experiences as an outcome of cognitive dissonance: because they’re obliged to dig deeper to get underneath it. Digging deeper, they may find the treasure buried in the field.
Sometimes the question that helps me get underneath dissonance is: Who am I underneath all this?
Given that answering this question is an operation in consciousness, any description I use that draws on words with physical meanings must be a metaphor.
For instance, if I say I “dig deep,” well, I don’t actually dig.
So providing that we realize we’re obliged to speak metaphorically:
I reach down, deep into myself, and find out where I am with the matter in question. When I find out, I feel calmed again.
So here I am digging down deep with the Earth changes and this is what arises for me.
I chose to be here now. Ten minutes from now I may be swept away in a flood of water or fall to an earthquake. Nevertheless I’m not moving from this spot, which it seems to me is where I was intended to be. (You may feel differently.)
No matter what occurs, I choose to remember that I’m eternal. Though my body can and will drop away, I as a personality can and will never die.
Moreover, I know that death is painless (2) and I choose to remember that too. I will die some day. And, when I do, it’s almost predictable that I’ll protest. I allow myself some room to go through that process however I do.
For the rest, I intend to serve – in whatever capacity presents itself to me. I’ve led a good life and enjoyed what life has to offer. I drank fully at the spring of experience and did everything I wanted to. The rest of my life is not about me and what I want. It’s about serving the larger Plan. What I need to do where I am is look around me and see how I can serve.
Now I look again and find that the dissonance has fallen away. I am “restored to Self,” calm again. My anxiety has fallen away. I feel certain of who I am in the matter once more. I’ve gotten underneath the dissonance.
When cognitive dissonance strikes again, I’ll repeat the process. I’m not the victim of circumstances. I’m not helpless before my fate. I’m capable of choosing how best to serve the situation I find myself in. That choice in that moment is the only important thing to me.
Footnotes
(1) Council of Light, “The Most Beautiful Story Never Written,” Sept. 30, 2008, at http://www.heartlight.ca/council/latest
(2) This passage originally read “not painless.” That was a typographical error. On death being painless, see “Death is Painless; Most People Do Not Suffer,” at http://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/nmh/death1.html#painless
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Beautiful, Steve, so very beautiful! And encouraging too!
I also loved this:
“Assuming that one actually wants to manage cognitive dissonance and
not that one wants to yield to it and move by steps toward becoming a basket case:”
I love your sense of humor as well as your wisdom and kindness.
Thank you! Love and Light throughout eternity!
This next Sunday, January 16th, I will turn 74 years old. Strange as it seems, I did not expect to live this long. Well, I am still here and very healthy as well. I do not have a death wish but I will be very happy when this life is over. Born in 1937, I can say that I have never known a time when war was not being fought on this planet. I served in the USAF for four years back in the 1950′s. I am very thankful I never saw combat duty, and only fired a rife on the test range. So I feel I got through pretty safely.
I served before Vietnam so I was never a part of that war. but it has disturbed me that fighting on this planet seems to be an obsession on this earth. Yet some of my closest friends are immigrants from foreign countries, who in other times might have been considered my enemy. That to me is a thought to horrible to dwell on.
As I get older, I think about my eventual death and I will consider that a final Victory. I say Victory because, altho I firmly believe in reincarnation, I know from the difficulties I have had in this life that I have burned a great deal of Karma. I have asked my spirit guides to help me do everything I must do to clean the slate (so to speak), because I so look forward to the Ascension process and the realization that this life in duality will actually come to an end.
I abhor violence and I realize we see so much of it in this world. How a person can take another persons life, I do not understand. It solves nothing and only adds to more karma for the perpetrator of such an action.
I believe I have gained a great deal in this life and I feel no fear in welcoming that final trip in the sky (as I like to call it). I also hope and pray I never have to come this way again. It is simply time to move on and I feel I am ready when ever that happens. I have had several OBE’s, so I feel I have been given a precursor of what is will be to leave this body. I actually found it quite wonderful. Now I just have to make that final trip to complete this journey.
God’s Love to all,
Carl