I had an experience the other day that caused a shift within. I have been practicing mantra and surrender for several months now, albeit, not with the consistency that I would like. I don’t how it is for you, but I find that in the morning I can be attuned to the practice, but as the day wears on I get caught up in the stories of the day and sometimes forget all about it.
Last week a friend and I talked and ranted about all kinds of things going on in the world. Afterward, as I went over to my desk, there was a magazine open to an article about a football player. This is not something I would normally be interested in reading, but I as I read the article, one sentence in particular stood out for me, something to the effect of: he rants about everything.
Well I gotta tell you – it was as if my inner teacher highlighted that sentence with a divine highlighter! Immediately I realized that I had just been ranting about everything! Right then and there I felt this deep shift within. I felt the increased willingness to fill my mind with mantra and surrender instead of listening to all the silly ego rants in my head. Since that day, amazingly, I find the practice of mantra and surrender to be easier than ever before, and while there are times throughout the day that I forget, for the most part I see that my practice has gone to the next level.
The idea with chiropractic is that with specific adjustments to the spine, the practitioner can align the body to the innate intelligence that governs it. This past week I realized that mantra and surrender are like specific adjustments that can be used to bring the mind back into alignment with the truth of who we are. With the mantra I can cut through the thoughts in my mind and recognize that they are meaningless, and then I can return to stillness. In this way, I find that I can remain fully engaged with life without getting caught up in listening to the fictional stories in the movie theater of my mind.
In my work as a chiropractor I use many different adjustments on the body, and so it is that there are many different practices one can use to come into alignment with the Divine. Mantra and surrender are just the practices that I am most guided to do at this time. Although it is now apparent to me that A Course in Miracles, while not using the same words, definitely gives us similar practices in that the workbook essentially contains 365 mantras, and as it teaches us to listen to another Voice, it is teaching surrender.
The other day I was on the elliptical machine in the gym with a notebook filled with “Holy Spirit Guides” messages. I had planned to read a particular one, but was instead strongly guided to the message “You are a student of feeling now”*. For a moment I had returned to listening to a story in my mind, and as I looked down to the page I read: “Let go of the past and move forward by listening to Me now”
My eyes stayed on that sentence for quite awhile as I remembered that all the stories in the mind are about the past.
Let go of the past.
Move forward
by listening to Me now.
HS: What you want to focus on learning is the difference in the feeling of little self guidance, which comes from fear, and My guidance, which does not. …Whenever fear arises, it is because you are listening to the voice of little self. There is no fear when you listen only to Me. You may have heard My words clearly, but the little self commentary is what added the feeling of fear. Therefore, you must learn that you cannot trust the feeling of fear. When you trust “no fear”, you trust Me. I am not fear.”
When I feel fear, unworthiness, guilt, lack, etc., instead of judging myself for it, I can recognize these feelings can serve to remind me that I am out of alignment with my true Self. I can use my mantra as an adjustment to bring me back.
Ahh…I see that my mind is filled with thoughts of lack and limitation. I accept that this is what I feel right now, but I am willing to rest my mind. I am willing to trust that I am being healed, even now. I am that I am. I am as God.
I rest in the stillness. I then can practice surrender as I ask, What am I to do now?
HS: “You are a student of feeling now, not thought. You are learning to tune in at a vibrational level, not think yourself into understanding. Learn to feel and to make adjustments based on the feeling. Keep the mind focused on now. You cannot attune when the mind is going over the past or dreaming about the future. See your mantra as your most useful tool now. Use it always.”
We hear so many teachings about living in the present and living in the now. It’s time to grasp on a deep level that when we listen to the stories in the mind, we are absent from now – living in the past or the future. We can become spiritual chiropractors as we learn to use the practice of mantra and surrender as adjustments that can align the mind with truth instead of fiction.
In this way we can cease being guided by guilt, fear, unworthiness and limitation. So many of the choices we have made were guided by these false beliefs, but now we are learning that we can make another choice. We can learn to pay attention to our feelings, and then make adjustments. I recognize within me an increased desire to stop listening to the fictional stories in my mind, and stay with now – where I am that I am exists.
Bless you.
I am with you now.
I am with you always,
but I want your mind focused
on now.
Find Me now.
Always find Me in the moment
called now.
Keep looking only there.
Stay there.
Stay now.
~
The Audio was recorded on 10/9/11
It contains much more than I was able to share here.
* I shared two messages in this teaching from the “Holy Spirit Guides” series. One is “Your first mantra” dated 4/12/08, and the other, “You are a student of feeling now” dated 4/13/08. Both can be found at http://www.reginadawnakers.com under “monthly archives”.
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