When we operate from our higher consciousness, and give its unconditional love, we become safe and free from fear and vulnerability, for our conscious awareness is the audience that witnesses of the dramas and traumas that play on our minds. We may be used to operating from those lower levels of consciousness that have to do with the endless securing of possessions, the seeking of more and more sensations, and the constant gaining of control through power seeking, all of which are not ultimately satisfying because they can never ever be enough.
In our personal relations we can learn to put ourselves in the place of others and avoid our emotional upsets by sympathizing with their motives. We can thus bring peace and harmony to ourselves and those around us instead of mirroring their moody behaviors and spreading them to others. Rather than wearing blinders and interpreting the world in bits and pieces and thereby losing it, we can learn to see the bigger picture.
We can learn to live in the here and now, the only place where life actually happens. Also, negatives can be turned into positives. Fear can be replaced by the excitement of a new opportunity; hurt feelings can become a reminder of where our love and caring went, anger’s energy can be redirected toward solving the problem. Happiness will reign and continue, turning into bliss. Life can be happily accomplished through unconditional love, being fully present for each moment, and seeing the larger reality of life. We can then harmonize our energy by going with the flow of all the energies around us instead of fighting the current and suffering. Low level emotional suffering will be no more, having been replaced with a higher level awareness. We can absorb life with an awestruck reverence for its overpowering beauty. Living becomes more exhilarating and heartfelt than anyone ever dreamed of. We will be free of inner turmoil and its ill effects on us and others. There will be no action by another that can disturb us.
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— Unhappiness —
Stress is the difference between what we
Expect to happen and what really happens—
Especially when we put our needs ahead
Of other’s, oft resulting in needless anger.
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— The Hopeless Quest —
The three lower consciousnesses that are
Obsessed with the securing of objects,
With the chasing of sensations, and with
Power-control will never ever be enough.
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— Higher Consciousness —
There are NO actions of people that can
Justify our becoming irritable
Angry, fearful, jealous, or anxious if
We give them our unconditional love.
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— Defenselessness is Peace and Power —
If we don’t accept the unacceptable,
Then we lower our level of consciousness—
Our response will mirror their uptightness,
Which can spread the bad moods onto others.
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— They’re Looking For Love —
Putting ourselves in the place of others
When hurtful things are done to us,
Expands our consciousness, compassion, and love,
Since we can then come to know why they did it.
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— Talking To Ourselves —
When we converse with ourselves, it is our
Higher Consciousness—our larger brain
That questions our lower consciousness
Impulses toward securing, sensation, and power.
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— Love —
Putting the needs of others ahead of
Our own produces the byproduct of
Happiness, and reduces stress, for we
No longer have unrealistic expectations.