Today I will be sharing from a “Holy Spirit’s Guides” message called “Be watchful with Me, part III”*
HS: “There is a restfulness in the task of mind-watching that is necessary if you are to watch the mind without feeling guilty. If you are judging or feeling guilty as you watch the mind, you are not being watchful. You are sleeping. You are sleeping because you believe there is an element of reality within your thoughts for which they can be judged or you can be judged and be guilty.”
As we begin to watch the mind and see thoughts of lack, fear, judgment, attack, etc., we may fall into the temptation to judge ourselves as being a bad. The next time you feel guilty about the thoughts you see in the mind, recognize that you are judging yourself, and that you are watching the mind with the ego. With such awareness, I can simply ask Holy Spirit to watch with me.
HS: “Watchfulness comes from a position of observation without attachment. When I ask you to be detached, I ask you to recognize that the thought has no inherent value of itself. It is just a thought. When you accept that a thought has no inherent value of itself, you can watch the mind with a restful sense of curiosity without judgment.”
A few years ago, as I was guided deeper into mind watching, I began to call the incessant chattering in my head the toxic chatty Cathy. Later I realized that when I did that, I had become the observer rather than being totally identified with those thoughts as being “me”. Once I recognize that this voice is not the voice of my true Self, it then follows that I can become increasingly willing to stop listening to it and believing the stories that it tells.
As I rest the mind and simply look at the thoughts, the task actually is one of curiosity, and even sort of fun as I realize that these thoughts I now see are thoughts that I have been thinking, and believing, for years! They are just thoughts, they are not the truth about me or anything else.
HS: “Many people do not know how to detach from their thoughts. They do not see how they assume inherent value and automatically judge based on that value. I will cover this now, so that those wishing to learn and practice detachment may see how to do what they feel they cannot do.
“Let’s look at something that may seem closer to your everyday experience. Let’s look at anger. When you have a thought of anger or when you act on that thought, you may judge yourself as having done something that is inherently wrong. But if all experience is merely experience for experience’s sake, can any experience be wrong? Can any experience be judged? Wasn’t the experience that was desired experienced? In that way, didn’t it happen just as it was meant to happen?
“When you accept that there is no inherent value (or right or wrong) in any thought or action, you become detached from that thought or action, because you are no longer automatically judging it. You are simply observing it.”
See, continuing with this example of anger, so often we do not really experience the anger because we deny it with thoughts and stories about why we feel angry, we see the cause as being out there. When we do not experience these feelings, they keep coming up until we become conscious enough to allow ourselves to experience them for the purpose of ultimately letting them go.
In The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament (NTI), 2 Timothy describes this idea brilliantly:**
“God has granted you the right to have experience. You have, within you, the desire to have experience. … Let’s remember that this is a course of looking within in order to heal all that is false within your mind. The world is never cause. The mind is cause.
“Now look on the world. Look without judgment. Look with curiosity. Look on the world and see it as a harmless and meaningless prop. As you do this, feelings will seem to come up in you, feelings that say, ‘The world is not a prop!’ Do not turn away from your feelings. Turn your attention, now, from the prop to the feelings it has evoked. This is the experience you deemed to have.
“Feel the feelings of injustice and anger and sadness and blame.
“…The feelings within you are not to be hidden. Do not be afraid of the feelings you find within. They do not define you. They are not who you are. They are who you are not. By looking at them and experiencing them, and not fearing them, you may release them. As they go, you shall see they were not who you are. As you release them, do not make this error:
Do not feel
that your feelings were caused
by anything in the world.
They were not.
“The feelings were in the mind first. In this way, celebrate the world. Be grateful that it can be used to show you your need for healing. Have faith in the healing process. Healing is your only purpose. Do not be distracted. You enjoy the process as you come to recognize its reward, and the reward you recognize is That Which you truly Are.”
Going back to the message, what does this have to do with mind-watching?
HS: “Observe the thoughts in the mind from a detached perspective and ask, “What do I want to experience now?” Hold your desired experience in the mind and weigh the thought against that desire. This is not judgment, but discernment. You are merely asking, “Does this thought serve me when my desire experience is ‘x’?
"If your desire experience is love, does an attack thought serve you?
If your desired experience is peace, does a fear thought serve you?
If your desire experience is joy, does a thought of grievance or judgment against another help to bring that experience to you now?
If not, let the thought go.
"This is the only way you can be truly useful to yourself:
Recognize your purpose, and
choose only the thoughts that support that purpose.
“In this way, you bring to you the experience you choose to experience instead of one you do not want to experience.”
If my true desire is to know my Self as Love created it, unlimited and free, do thoughts of lack, limitation and unworthiness support this purpose? And so I ask myself: “Do I want to continue to experience the feelings that tell me who I am not? Or, do I want to choose the experience of remembrance? Pay attention to your thoughts, each thought either supports your purpose or distracts you from it.
HS: “To choose the experience you desire to choose is wakefulness. To choose the experience you do not desire to choose is to sleep.”
Now I want to remember that when I watch my mind and see thoughts of intolerance, anger, lack and unworthiness…and I judge myself for it, I am not being watchful, I am sleeping. And in my slumber, I continue to have experiences that I really don’t want anymore. But, through watching the mind with Holy Spirit, I begin to wake up, and thus I create new experiences through wakefulness.
HS: “Remain awake. Be watchful. Choose the experience you choose to experience by choosing from your mind in alignment with your purpose. This is discernment.
This is to be watchful with Me.
************************
The audio includes much more than was shared here.
It was recorded on 9/4/11 and can be found in the previous blog,
Couse note #125, as the audio covers both that blog and this one.
All of the "Be watchful with me" audios can be found on my audio blog:
* This can be found in its entirety at: http://www.reginadawnakers.com
under monthly archives dated, January 18, 2007. When I use the “HS” symbol, I am quoting directly from the message.
** There are 4 chapters in NTI 2 Timothy, which is too much to share here, and so I have shared excerpts from various chapters. If these ideas are interesting to you, and you have NTI, this is an amazing and life changing chapter to read with Spirit.
0 comments:
Post a Comment