Wednesday, April 26, 2006

What I Really Want

I had a reply recently regarding how to handle/deal with wants. In the specific case, I would guess it is a want that is having a large impact on the posters life. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to say that the want is a negative thing and to make the changes to move away from it but I think an explanation of where our wants come from will be useful.

A want is basically a physical object or an emotional state that we desire. In some cases we justify the want to ourselves and in others we can explain it. It is a just a deep down want that we have and don't know why. Most people will say that it's because of our society or our up bringing. You might be able to find "evidence" to support this but this is not the true cause of the want. In reality you drew those experiences to you to set up the want in this life.

I have talked briefly in the past about past lives and their impact on our current life. As you can probable see by the number of times it comes up that past lives are an important aspect of our spiritual growth and learning.

The source of wants is your past lives and karma. It might sound simple and in a way it is and in some ways it's not. We cannot want something in this life that we did not have and/or want in a previous life.

It is likely based on the number of lives we have lived that you have lived a life of privilege at some point. You would have had vast sums of money and were able to buy anything you wanted. In this life you don't have the endless resources, but your pastself is trying/wanting to live like they did previously.

Alternately, you might have been married or had a close relationship with someone, but in this life time that is not possible. You pastself would be use to having that person close, loving them and being loved by them. In this life they will strive to do the same. They will not understand the current situation or why they cannot have the love.

To deal with a want you must first recognize that it is negative to you. You must believe that the want is not good for you. Then you must realise that the want is not yours, as in it is not you in this current life that wants but the pastself. You then separate yourself from your pastself and let them go, must easier said then done.

If you are successful with the separation and release that pastself, it will no longer have a negative impact on your current life. Does that mean that your want will be gone? Not necessarily. We have many lives, and through these lives we add to our karma. If you do not clear all the past lives or get the source life time it is likely you will have to deal with that want again or a variation on it. But, it is important to understand the even though that want or situation maybe the same, the past life could be different.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Bad Thoughts

In my previous post I talked a little about what is Good and what is Bad. As I mentioned these topics are very complex. The "Good"/Positive and "Bad"/Negative can be related to many different spiritual concepts. Today I want to focus on our thoughts and what makes them Positive or Negative.

The first thing that you need to know is that if you think something you might as well say it, the impact to your spirit is the same. Despite what we've been told since child hood the "if you can't think of anything good to say, say nothing at all" does not protect us. That fact is that as soon as you think something the energy form around that thought is created: good or bad.

Our negative thoughts are one of the hardest things to control. Thoughts just seem to jump into our heads before we know what has happened. So, how do we protect ourselves from our own negative thoughts? After the fact there is little you can do about. Sooner or later the thought will come back to you and you'll be forced to deal with them. What you can do is when you have a negative thought, identify it as a negative and unacceptable thought. After a while of identifying thoughts as not acceptable the number of negative thoughts that you have will reduce. The only way to protect yourself from negative thoughts is to not have them.

The important thing to note here is that you can only deal with the negative thoughts that you identify as negative. The biggest negative thoughts are those that direct negative energy to other (thinking bad about people, regardless of how justified you think you are) and casting judgements (the fact is that most people are not in a position to truly understand where other people are).

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Good and Bad

I noticed in my Blog stats that a few people were finding this site look for a definition of good and bad or at least good and bad spirits. So, I decided that I would post my thoughts on Good and Bad (Evil).

To start there is no Good and Bad. There are not good and bad spirits/entities, situation, thoughts or energies. There is also nothing or anyone who is inherently good or bad.

So where does this leave us? Are we done with the topic? Not yet I think there are still quite a few things that need to be discussed.

What most would term good or bad, I would use the term positive and negative, but these terms don't accurately reflect the meaning either. The way I look it is that we are at a certain energy level or frequency. When you compare this to other energies they are higher (positive/good), lower (negative/bad) or the same (Neutral).

This higher or lower energy applies to almost anything: people, spirits/entities, situations and thoughts.

To relate this back to the good or bad spirits we must understand the effects of low and high energy.

When someone is high energy they lean toward the spiritual side of life. They tend to strive to not hurt anyone else physically, emotionally or spiritually. They look for happiness within. The higher your energy the more spiritual you will be. They do not focus on material gain.

When someone is low energy they lean toward the physically side of life. This does not mean they are bad or want to hurt other people it just means they tend to focus on material items and things. They look for happiness outside and in material items. They believe the big house or new car will make them happy. They also tend to focus more on what they want and need.

This just starts to touch the surface of this topic. More posts will be required to fully discuss this topic. I hope that you will post your replies, ask questions. As I have done with this post my hope is to post on the topics you want to hear.

Monday, April 03, 2006

An Energy Drain

I'm sure at some point in all our lives we meet a person that is a drain of our energy. Most of the time when we deal with this person we find ourselves with negative thoughts and low energy. As time goes on we can sometimes have these same effects with just the thought of having to deal with them.

In cases like this what do you do? Who's to blame? I'm sure anyone who's read my previous post can guess on what my answers are going to be.

First, who's to blame? The fact is that as soon as you start to assigning blame, like they make me feel this way or anything along that line you are enforcing the situation and getting further from resolving it.

I'm currently in a situation like this and for a while I was letting it go. Letting the situation drag me and my energy down. It wasn't until my wife pointed out that I was being negative about the person that I realised what I was doing. No matter how much progress we seem to make there are always those situations we get into that it takes someone else to point out that we are in a bad place.

In my case the person involved is a low energy obsessed person. I say that not to blame or to less my responsibilities it is just a statement of fact. The person also draws sub-astrals to them. These are their issue and not mine to solve and find fault in.

I job is to ensure that I don't let my thoughts and energy drop and allow the sub-astrals to attack me. Over the past little while I have not been doing this and now I am struggling to resolve my issues. I now recognize that I'm not doing the "right" thing. I also recognize that I have past karma to work out. I am working on both of these right now but making slow progress.

To make things hard, the person has requested a favour from me. My first response would be to deny the request, because of the situation. However, I now recognize the situation that I'm in and I question if the answer is truly my answer, the right answer, or the response of the low energy I'm now in and the past karma. I'm doing my best to over come the situation at hand and approach the new request objectively.

We must always be careful of our reactions to people. Is it a negative response? Is the response base on past karma? Only by dealing with our karma and looking past our negative energies can we find the right answer.