Questions that formed the Theme of this Week

A couple of questions that have been the theme of the week with clients go like this: 

Who is in control?? Who did make up all the beliefs that we got programmed/bought-up with? And if there are three levels of the mind, the conscious, subconscious and superconscious, are “we” were in control of the Super Conscious Mind?”

Then another question that was about the mind and the power of the mind and can it be trusted, is a very, very relevant one… and its our limiting belief systems that prevent the true source of consciousness its wisdom and insight – which is in fact our own.

 ….. I think if we really want to begin to comprehend who or what is in control of us and our world/universe in general, then the question that you really want to ask is ‘Who” is it that is observing the existence of a “We”?’

 That which can be observed is not who we really are. To look into the mirror and say that’s who I am that reflection there, is not who you really are. That you are a hypnotherapist, daughter, mother, wife, friend, lover brother, husband, son, etc…. is not who you really are. That you are kind, loving, gentle, giving, selfish, angry, frustrated, etc….  is not what you really are. And yes you have emotions and feelings, but you are not those emotions and feelings. And yes you have desires, but you are not those desires. To think that we are what can be observed is one of the biggest misconceptions an analytical, or any, human being can make.

So to believe that I am my beliefs or that my beliefs will keep me safe/secure/effective/productive/loved/etc is also a misconception……

 The concept of growth seems to come from an ability to transcend and include all that occurs in life and to wake up to it as we go along. So we transcend (move through and beyond) the conscious mind as we slow down our brainwave activity, so that we can access the mickey mouse programming of the sub conscious minds patterns, work our way through those and then transcend them too, so that we go through them and beyond to the super conscious mind….. and as we transcend and go through the Super Conscious mind and comprehend “I Am-ness”, there is a continually evolving merging of Oneness with the Collective Consciousness…. the collectiveness that does not enter into the stream of time that could be called Consciousness itself, or Spirit, or Source, or God.

This means that God is within us, through us and beyond us.  In other words, through shifting our perspective from a first, to a second, to a third person perspective, we are able to sense and feel the God/Source/Spirit as being WHO we are, an external aspect of who we are, and a part of everything and all that is of which we are also obviously a part.

There is No-body out there that is going to save us from ourselves. There is No-body out there that is going to save Mother Earth for us. There is No-body out there that is going to judge or condemn you if you do or don’t believe that there is No-body out there. As Andrew Cohen would say, “We’ve all flown around on enough aeroplanes to know this to be true, there is Nobody out there, there is nobody out there”. It is just us and it is up to us. We have to wake up to this fact URGENTLY which means NOW, right NOW.

And as hypnotherapists we work in the doorway to consciousness, the door way to the Soul, to Spirit, to Source, to God. To not observe this is not only neglectful and un-intelligent, but it is simply unconscious.

WE are ALL one and as One, we are are Consciousness becoming aware of the Evolution of itself. God/Source/Spirit is a moving target, for God too is evolving. And who would really want a God that was not evolving??  God is a concept tho, not an object. Just as Santa Clause was a myth so too is God. But look at all the beauty that came out of Santa Clause….  Apply that exponentially to the concept of the Bible/God/any other teaching (they all say the same things) and we have a beautiful set of myths from which we can learn the lessons of Consciousness and maybe even still save Mother Earth and the Human Species…

 Soooo… that is what I believe is in Control. That which does the observing of all that is, and can be comprehended through the continuing process of Evolution, as a state of “I Am-ness”. It is that part of us that is formless, that doesn’t have a birth or a death, that part of us that is not seeking, has never been born and will never die. That part of us that just IS… and it is evolving. To have a belief system about something that is a moving target, means our belief systems too need to evolve.

Now our job is to grow so that we can take on as many different perspectives as we can so that we can better comprehend what this means in terms of the Higher Good of ALL.

So in Answer to the question, can I trust ANYTHING that my mind tells me? …. I feel we need to shift from our minds and into our hearts and go with what feels right. If it reasonates with you, then its right for you. And if it is right for you then it is right for those around you because you are in the flow of your life which means others around you can also be in the flow of their life. Have you ever tried to be around someone who was consistently trying to do a job they hated? They’re not the free, high vibrational, light emanating kind of spirit you are drawn to be around are they. Everyone wants to be around those people who are inspiring and joyful because they are in the flow of their life, doing what makes their HEART sing and spreading light and love in all that they do. Thats what I trust.

And just one more thing… I used to think I had all the answers too…. now I’m quite sure I don’t have a clue about anything! And everything I say up there is exactly true unless of course its not… its just what resonates with me right now as I continue the journey to comprehend what it REALLY means to evolve and grow.

Spiritual Hypnosis

This is a recent 13 part (67 min) talk on Spiritual Hypnosis given to the Spiritualist Society of New Plymouth in the Taranaki of New Zealand last month. You’ll have to click this link Spiritual Hypnosis Talk to watch the complete ‘Playlist’ talk on YouTube seeing as YouTube is still ironing out some bumps with embedded playlists on sites, but this works for now.

Stretch Your Mind, Expand Your Consciousness

It seems there is a lot of different ways of viewing things coming to the surface now for us to expand our minds over. Normally when we learn of something new that we don’t yet comprehend or yet know what we feel, our first response is “No”. We just automatically fire off a “No” as if it were a “shoot first and wonder why you’re even asking the questions later,” at best, type of scenario.

This is so our minds don’t have to stretch themselves and then our consciousness – or comfort zone – can remain unmoved. If we just say “No” to change or something new or different then things just may stay just the way they are – after all, its taken a lifetime to get them this way and I’m finally feeling mature and grown up enough to understand a little bit about how it works here…..  and so I’m staying here with my mountains of chocolate/packets of ciggarettes/bottles of wine/what ever your choice of anxiety suppressor…. and I’m just going to cope with the way it is, because its too hard to do it differently?!

Is this familiar to you? Does this feel like a scenario you are experiencing right now…. the “No, I’ve taken on enough change and transformation for one life, I’m just going to get used to this now” type of feeling?? If so, you are not alone… but there’s more to come, more change, more transformation, more restructuring, more confusion, more excitement, more hope, more optimism, more light, more insight, just more…. So it really is time to deal with your life because its just going to get more of what ever it is now.

I’m begining to see everything in our experience as being driven by a consciousness that is in itself evolving… and as we continue to evolve and become aware that the spiritual target is moving, we also begin to sense the evolution of consciousness becoming aware of itself becoming conscious – in other words, consciousness itself, is evolving. So it is a moving process that has many levels, layers, dimensions, perspectives, lines, states  and structures that keep it on some kind of evolving path of expansion at an ever increasing pace.

And this has implications for our World View and ultimately our concept of reality.

Within all of this, everything we think, feel, say and do directly affects and influences the quality of our experience of life. So if something hasn’t gone your way, go inside and ask yourself, “what have I been thinking, feeling, saying or doing to create this experience in my life right now that is not going my way?” In every moment you are creating your experience and it is manifesting in your reality as a direct reflection of how you are with yourself. This in turn means you are offering this attitude out into the evolution of consciousness as your contribution. And this process is speeding up all the time… just as quickly as technology is increasing in its ability, so too is the evolution of Human Consciousness. So are you contributing an attitude which is to the higher good of all?

Its time to Stretch Your Mind and Expand Your Consciousness so that we may open our eyes to the full profundity of what this may mean. In other words, its time to listen to other perspectives, take on different ways to do things, let judgment and old view points based upon “Because So ‘n So said”  go by the way, and allow new ways of thinking about, seeing and doing things now come to the fore.

We all have our own perspective on what is happening to create the reality in which we live. Its time to become curious about other perspectives, to nuture them without judgement and accept that they too have validity. No one and nothing can be 100% wrong. Stretching your mind will help you find the part of another perspective that can expand your consciousness in a way so far hasn’t been happening, and create a better comprehension of reality and your experience of it.

So your perspective wants to be one that is inviting of this process and responds with a “Yes”.  Then let it in, chew on it, turn it over, add it to what you’ve already got, hone in on it and see how it feels, does it work for you? Could it work for you? Will it help you grow along another line of development? Will it help form a new structure for thinking within a more evolved framework? Does it reasonate with you? Does it feel right for you, not them, you?

These are the questions that we want to be asking about EVERYTHING right now so that we can figure out a way to include more in our paradigms and experience a smoother, more peaceful ride.