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So who am
I?
In the armed forces and many other organizations we are likely to
be officially recognized by a number. This may be perceived as dehumanising. It
is similar with many other institutes such as government departments and banks,
where we are tracked by a series of digits and characters.
Yet if asked by a person to say who I am, I will probably give my name, which similarly is a series of characters. There is little difference, although we may perceive otherwise. I may change my name if I wish; it may change at a wedding to an alternative set of characters.
So who am
I? A series of numbers? A series of characters? Surely more than this.
Do I even
know me? The real me, the deep within me, the one who I am when I came into
being?
Imagine
this or a similar scene: (Fill in your own details as applicable)
My body
breathes its last breath on earth. I arrive elsewhere. “Who are you?” a voice
asks.
“I am
……(your name)………”
“I did not
ask for your earthly name the voice says. “Who are you?”
I reply: “I’m the child of ………………… and the partner
of…………….”
“I did not
ask of your parents and partner. Please who are you?”
“I don’t
understand. I’m the parent of …………….”
“You obviously do not know yourself,” the voice says, “Go back to the universe and be another life in different place and discover yourself”
So who am I? I offer a possible answer: I am an individual spiritual soul, travelling temporarily on planet earth. I am a representative of love. Love knows me and I offer love as my witness.
But in order to claim love as my witness I need to know love, otherwise love will not recognize me. To do this it is necessary to seek, discover, accept and exercise love so that it becomes my nature. Then I will know love and love will know me.
No one is going to magically get me out of the TV chair. I
have to make the effort. As I do so I will come to a better understanding of
love. But I must continue to exercise to remain within love. It is the same
with physical exercises, the more regularly I train, the better my condition.
Why would I hide, why would I stay away from the gymnasium of love?
I offer some exercises that may assist.
Mini
exercise with maxi results:
A simple
exercise that may be done quickly in about 2 minutes and may be included
several times a day and especially when time is limited:
Breathe in through
the nose and feel the flow of air pass the back of the throat.
On
breathing out feel the newly inhaled air flow to renew throughout the body
(from the tip of the toes to the crown of the head and include the mind and the
immediate surrounding space).
Take four
complete breaths in this manner. You
will probably find that these breaths are longer in duration than normal
breathing patterns.
On the
fifth breath, again breathe in through the nose, but this time feel the flow of
love pass the back of the throat.
On
breathing out feel the newly inhaled love flow peacefully throughout to
similarly energise the body, mind and surrounds.
Take four
complete breaths in this manner.
On the
ninth breath, breathe in through the nose. This time feel the flow of love pass
the back of the throat and travel throughout the body and on breathing out
allow the love from within to flow out for all to share.
Take four
breaths in this manner.
Remain
relaxed and thank love for the free gift of love.
Practice,
practice and keep practising, always remembering to thank love for the energy
that love freely offers.
The exercise above is also useful as a starter for other routines and may be easily extended: (The four breath cycle may be any chosen number when more time is available. There is no need to count).
Continue in silence and be calm. Cease any internal chatter of the mind, allowing the mind to be at rest. (Easily said, not so easy to do! Love will help.) Now direct the flow of love throughout the mind to dissolve and wash away the egos. Direct the flow of love to re-unite with the soul. Remain within. When finished give thanks.
A
variation:
Be quiet
and cease the chatter of the mind. In stillness imagine:
I meet my spiritual
teacher, my teacher is one with me. My teacher is love. I invite my teacher in.
I see love within my expanse, within my knowledge, within my thinking, within
my sight, within my feelings, within my emotions. I am encapsulated with love.
Be thankful.
As I go
about my day:
Refrain
from looking outwardly trying to assess and understand the many people and
things I see. Avoid
self-justification and pretence; rather just observe, accept and comprehend
self. Concentrate on being at peace and observe internally, coming to know.
Should I have no thoughts I am at rest. Be at rest so I may
hear. Be silent so I may ask, for if I ask when I am not at peace, how may I
hear the answer?
Choose your
own meditation to suit the moment:
The one who hesitates may well be lost. But the one who
meditates finds himself.
I may also train by going out into the world and “jousting” using, for example, truth as my “stick”? Do not joust in an attacking or forceful way for truth requires no defence. Try it!
Similarly joust using other ingredients of love such as comforting, kindness and so on. Concentrate on only one of the ingredients of love at a time. Make regular little sorties.
As another example, venture out and only be forgiving and see only forgiveness.
I find these mini-voyages open up my feelings, causing me to perceive differently.
At the
conclusion of each joust, be thankful to love for the lessons learned.
In silence ask for the company of love and be still. Ask in humility from the soul. Then ask for ability, abundance, awareness, balance, clarity, courage, guidance, increase, insight, knowledge, potential, strength and support, so that love, truth, peace, hope, wisdom and joy may be realised in relation to self, partner, family, home, environment, work, humankind and nature. Allow the transformation to come through in fullness. Thank love for being present.
As a temporary visitor to the world, move beyond and above. Move out, come back, move out further. Practice until I can come and go at will so that I may experience the world while not being part of it and in this way be free of the worldly, but remaining part of the universe.
When out and about:
I am just to observe, without judging. Observe the egos in self and in others. What I observe in others, observe also in self.
Substitute any chosen ego as in the following examples:
As I observe others and someone is angry towards me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone criticises me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone is spiteful towards me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
As I observe others and someone is avoiding me, be grateful for it shows me my past.
And so on and so on.
Ask for happiness, laughter, fun, spontaneity also to be added to my exercises, lessons and life. Enjoy exercising in peace and love
All these
suggestions are for individual choice. You may like to use or develop your own
loving alternatives, but keep exercising and do so in love.
Removing the egos:
Select an
ego. Find one that you recognize. Perhaps commence with the twelve breaths
above or similar, as you prefer. Let love flow into the mind, into the soul. Be
with the ebb and flow of loving emotions; be totally love. Now take the ego and
deluge love over it to completely dissolve it in every form. See the ego
dissolve and vanish before your sight. Cast any remnants beyond the limits of the universe never to
return. Call on love to consume all that is not love in and around your
existence.
Repeat the ego dissolving exercises frequently. It is an ongoing task. Egos are a little bit like the common cold, they will return if you do not keep them at bay, especially if out of spiritual condition.
Click HERE for a listing of some egos, there are many more. Do not be depressed and feel it's all too hard, for that's just another ego at work and a good one to start dissolving.
In the following list the characteristic in all forms is not necessarily an
ego. For example:
"Accepting" in the form of "not bothering" rather than
doing something about it, is an ego, but not so in the form of
"accepting" love.
Similarly some of the other listed words need to be considered in various forms.
"Denying". If I deny love that is an ego doing its worst, whereas if I deny an ego then I am at work with love.
List of EGOS Here!
Each word is worthy of a study. (Something I admit to not having completed
myself!) Try not to let the critic in. Select an ego that you admit to and get
started.
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